Illustrated Paperboy (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 14, 1999 Page: 2 of 14
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l ms week. I'm gonna ram-
ble around a bit to see what's
happening in the community.
In 1984. the citizens of the area
voted to improve the Cleve-
land Independent School Dis-
trict - particularly Cleveland
High School - by voting to re-
move Melvin Hunt from the
classroom and instead made
him the county commissioner
of Liberty County Pet. 3.
March 31.1999, education
in Cleveland High School was
set back several years as Melvin
returned to the classroom where
he taught three government
classes during the day.
All jokes aside, I stopped
by to take a picture of'this day
in history' and was impressed
with Melvin's presentation. The
kids were very attentive to what
he had to say and from what I
witnessed during my visit in
the classroom. I think Melvin
did a good job of teaching about
local government.
That leads me to the point.
This was a great learning expe-
rience for the kids as they got
first-hand knowledge about
government. Melvin's knowl-
edge of government began with
him teaching government in
ClevelandHighSphool.Healso
has been a Cleveland City
Councilman as well as Liberty
County Commissioner.
Anyway, just think how
this learning experience could
be enlarged if various busi-
nessmen and women of the
Cleveland area would volun-
teer an hour or two to teach a
class about a particular profes-
sion or business. Kids could
learn about banking from a lo-
cal banker; doctors and nurses
could teach a class about med-
icine and related fields; insur-
ance representatives, lawyers,
and various business people
could share their knowledge,
maybe even set up tours of
their businesses.
School officials I have
talked with would jump at the
opportunity to have this kind
of program in the schools.
CISD officials are always look-
ing for mentors and role mod-
els to help in the schools.
There's even a need for volun-
teers to come to Southside,
Northside, and Eastside
Schools to read to students.
I have had the experience
to speaking to some classes in
the past and look forward to
speaking in the future.
The students of today have
a great future ahead of them
and they need all the help they
can get to be prepared as they
enter the big ol' world after
school. They can learn only so
much from the text books and
teachers. That extra touch by
businessmen and profession-
als volunteering time in the
classroom can be a big benefit
for them.
Elsewhere around Cleve-
land, in case you haven't no-
ticed, Truman Street from Le-
gion to State 321 has been
paved. Gone are all the pot
holes. This was a joint project
by the City of Cleveland and
Liberty County Commission-
er Melvin Hunt.
Work is being done around
town by the city crews, clean-
ing out ditches to help improve
the drainage. Other street pav-
ing will be done throughout
the spring and summer. Crews
are beginning preliminary
work on some of those streets.
Out in the county. Com-
missioner Hunt has had crews
busy at work paving various
county roads, with more work
to be done. In both instances-
city and county - there is so
much to be done but so little
revenue to do it with. If only
our leaders in Washington
would stop sending multimil-
lion dollars to other nations
and instead, send it to cities
and counties, then a lot more
could be done here at home.
Back to the school, a lot of
good things are happening at
Cleveland High School. The
athletic department is sporting
one of the best track teams in
many years and they are bring-
ing home the medals and tro-
phies to prove it. I just wish
that Cleveland would host a
track meet. Also, Coach Sand-
ers has a great golf team around
and they, too, are bringing
home the trophies; and the girls
and boys basketball teams have
had a tremendous season. I
can't overlook the various UIL
and VICA teams. They, too,
are right up front with the sports
teams as winners.
Probably the thing that
school officials are most proud
of is the fact that CHS atten-
dance and TAAS scores are up
considerably. More on all of
this later.
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HUNT’S TEACHER FOR A DAY - Liberty County Commissioner Melvin Hunt
returned to the classroom, March 31, to teach a government class. For those that donjt
know, Hunt was a high school teacher at Cleveland before being elected commissioit-
er. Before that? Well, you ask Melvin. photo by Glen Dods&h
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