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As way to honor
those in the community who make a special
contribution toward keeping the blues alive and
educating audiences on blues music, the
Mississippi Valley Blues Society’s education
committee created and presented its first annual
Excellence in Blues Education award. This
special award was presented to Madison’s
Elementary School music teacher Mary Hyslop
on November 9. Hereafter, the special community
award will officially be named The Mary Hyslop
Excellence in Blues Education award.
“Ms. Hyslop is a community leader,” says MVBS
member and local blues musician Hal Reed, who
presented the award. “Very quietly and behind
the scenes, she goes above and beyond the call
of duty in educating her kids about blues music
and in helping to keep the blues alive.” |
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Stephen Verdon,
Business Education teacher at Davenport West
High School, Davenport, has been named
2007 Financial Educator of the Year by Iowa
Jump$tart Coalition. The award is presented
annually at Jump$tart’s personal finance
conference held July 19-20. |
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Lori Kimmel,
a teacher at Fillmore Elementary, was
recently recognized with an Office Max Award
for her teaching efforts. This is a first time
award for Office Max and they are doing it
nation-wide. The award was presented during a
special ceremony at the school in October. Lori
is the recipient of this area of Iowa which
includes to Cedar Rapids and this area of the
Quad Cities—including Bettendorf and PV. She was
selected out of around 1000 teachers whose names
were submitted for her efforts at helping kids
succeed. (Lori is in the center of the back
row.) |
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The Kimberly
Center was very fortunate to obtain
contributions from the Kiwanis Club and
the Optimist Club to purchase
professional quality weight equipment for the
school's PE department. The generous donations
were used to purchase 11 high quality weight
machines, 5 commercial grade cardiovascular
machines in addition to many other miscellaneous
pieces of equipment needed to complete the
school's weight room. The project was the
brainchild of School Psychologist Terry
Canright who had a vision many years ago of
Kimberly Center's students being able to
work-out and reap the benefits of
weight-training and cardiovascular exercise. |
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David Houk,
art teacher at Monroe Elementary, is the
illustrator of a newly published children's book
called Willie's Wagon. The book was written by
local television news anchor, Gary Metivier, who
is also the parent of two boys who attend the
Davenport Community Schools. The book should be
released for local distribution some time in
October 2007. |
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Pictures of
Future Falcon basketball practice held at
Davenport West High School on Tuesday and
Thursday evening from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m.
These practices will be taking place until the
end of the school year. Volunteer Dave King
is assisted by Brian Tritt and Eric
Johnson of the Davenport West Boys
Basketball coaching staff. The program is
offered free of charge.
"I am extremely pleased with the commitment and
effort put forth by Dave, Brian, and Eric to
provide this positive experience to students
from the West feeder schools," stated Mark
Bigler, Head Boys Basketball coach at West
High. |
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Pictured are representative of the
Davenport Community School District receiving
the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award. Back row (l-r):
Richard Walker, Mid American Energy
Company- Commercial Program; Bill Good DCSD,
Director of Operations; Kathleen Hogan, Director
Climate Protection Partnerships Division, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency; Ralph Johanson,
DCSD School Board Member
Front Row (l-r):
Donna Neppl Cooper, DCSD Operations Supervisor;
Mike Loehr, The Trane Company, Account Manager,
Equipment |
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