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Student Leadership at Clinton Elementary help less fortunate
- Sun, Dec 11, 2011
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| Students pictured in back, from left: Claudia Bible, Georgia Pietrzak, Hope Disney, Jessie Criswell Front row: Emma Schrider and Sarah Cardall. - Submitted |
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Several members of the sixth grade Leadership Committee at Clinton Elementary spearheaded an effort to collect items to be donated to ADFAC or Aid to Distressed Families of Applachian Counties.
The students were: Hope Disney and Claudia Bible, who were team leaders, and Sarah Cardall, Jessie Criswell, Georgia Pietrzak, and Emma Schrider. Over 1,400 items were collected, such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap and shampoo.
The students and administration are proud of the success of the project, and the Student Leadership Committee is planning more projects in the future.
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Mayor donates salary
- Sun, Dec 11, 2011
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| - Allen Handley |
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Mayor Scott Burton presents a check equal to the Mayor’s salary for one year to Director of Clinton City Schools Vicki Violette. Burton has donated $6,000 over the years and his company has matched making the total given over $9,600. Money will be used to upgrade the sound system in Clinton Elementary and to help finance a portion the science field trip of 6th graders from Clinton, North Clinton, and South Clinton Elementary schools.
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Mayor donates salary
- Sun, Dec 11, 2011
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| - Allen Handley |
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Mayor Scott Burton presents a check equal to the Mayor’s salary for one year to Director of Clinton City Schools Vicki Violette. Burton has donated $6,000 over the years and his company has matched making the total given over $9,600. Money will be used to upgrade the sound system in Clinton Elementary and to help finance a portion the science field trip of 6th graders from Clinton, North Clinton, and South Clinton Elementary schools.
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Saying ‘Goodbye’
After 30-plus years of public service, Vernon Long retires
By CHRIS SILCOX
- Sun, Dec 11, 2011
Vernon Long admits to having mixed emotions about his decision to step down after a long career as Anderson County Property Assessor.
First elected to the position in1996 after working 14 years in the property assessor’s office under former assessor Owen Richardson, Long says the most difficult aspect of retiring is sure to be the eminent interruption of the routine and relationships he’s grown accustomed to over the years.
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A miner’s legacy
Cross Mountain Mine: ‘You only get one chance to honor 100 years’
By CHRIS SILCOX
- Sun, Dec 11, 2011
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| Briceville Elementary School students sing “Will the Circle be Unbroken” during the Friday, Dec. 9, anniversary tribute to the Cross Mountain Mine Disaster at New Circle Cemetery behind Laurel Branch Baptist Church. The Miners Circle in the cemetery - Chris Silcox |
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Exactly 100 years after a mining explosion in the Briceville Community took the lives of their ancestors, more than 50 descendants of the Cross Mountain Mining disaster attended the anniversary ceremony at the historic Briceville Church honoring the 84 miners who lost their lives in the 1911 explosion.
A crowd of close to 200 crammed into the tiny hilltop church to mark the 100th anniversary of the mine explosion that shook the community to its core and forever changed the way American coal mines operate.
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