Points of Pride

  • Marvin Ridge Middle’s Prakash Mishra is the top regional speller. He’s going to nationals for the second year in a row.

  • Central Academy of Technology and Arts teachers Larry Robinson, Bianca Morgan and Jeff Weis, and several CATA students have been recognized for their play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf” winning the North Carolina Theatre Conference State Play Festival.

  •  Maya Schultz, science teacher at Cuthbertson High School was named 2011-2012 Teacher of the Year.

More Points of Pride

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Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club is safe haven for students

The Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club area director Moses Fox III, at left, plays a game of Air Hockey with students in the club, an after-school program for Union County Public Schools students that is housed at Monroe Middle. The club’s doors opened officially on Jan. 17, 2011, with 24 students signed up to attend. On the third day, however, that number had already doubled. Club organizers held a grand opening Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012.

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Young poets from Western Union Elementary are to be published

These third graders in Jennifer Bittner’s class at Western Union Elementary will have their poems published in the next issue of “Anthology of Poetry by Young Americans." Pictured from left, (first row) Peyton McDonald, Western Union teacher Jennifer Bittner, Caralyn Elrod; (back row) Sukarno Brown, Brett Connell and Nikolas Kotesky.

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