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Education

Flat Stanley tours the world

GREG HAYES/Sun-Gazette Second-graders at Round Hills Elementary School recently sent out Flat Stanleys to their friends and family members around the world. Above are class members of Eylene Love and Rhonda Getgen’s second grade classes; inset is Kaydie Miller, whose Flat Stanley visited the White House, and below, Bella Barone’s Flat Stanley — who upon returning from Rhode Island — poses outside the school.
February 8, 2010

Whether he’s wrinkled, creased, folded or flattened, this little boy travels the world — all by envelope. His name is Flat Stanley Lambchop, and as ageless as his stories, he’s been sent all over the world by millions of children since 1995. That’s the year when one teacher began an international trend for students to draw their own “Flat Stanley” and send him out into the world as part of a pen pal letter-writing activity to plot his travels, according to the project’s Web site. According to the books written by the late Jeff Brown, Stanley Lambchop was flattened overnight when a bulletin board his father hung above his bed fell and flattened the boy. Driven by curiosity, the flattened character was able to breach art museums by sliding beneath doorways and take trips by envelop.

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Camp Cadet celebrates 35 years, applications being accepted

February 8, 2010

Camp Cadet applications are being accepted through March 17 with an interview date of 1 to 3 p.m. March 20 in the conference room above the dining hall at the Little League Baseball complex, South Williamsport.

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Educator wins state teaching award

February 8, 2010

South Williamsport Area High School teacher Verna Correll has been named the Voice of Democracy Teacher of the Year, an honor bestowed by the Department of Pennsylvania Veterans of Foreign Wars.

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Writer's nook

February 8, 2010

Seniors in Kathy Temple’s Health Career Professionals class were asked to write a story about a love experience in their life in celebration of Valentine’s Da.

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Life in a college town:

February 8, 2010

I turned my back when I was passing through the security door in Shanghai Airport and I saw the tears come down my parents’ face, while they were said goodbye to their only son by waving their hands.

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Campus organization to host benefit concert

February 8, 2010

United Campus Ministries of Lycoming College will host a benefit concert from 8 to 11 p.m. Feb. 19 at First United Methodist Church’s Life Center, 2 Ross S.

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