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PAGE 4A Thursday, December 7, 2000
Youth
Port Aransas South Jett)
Staff photo oy Murray Juoson
Students’ art show
Students in Brundrett Middle and Port Aransas High schools are showing their art work in Art Center for
the Islands all this month. At the show opening Sunday, Dec. 3, Maggie Guscott, left, Diane Bermann
and Tom McHenry, art teacher, look over the art work during the reception. The mixed media show-
features figure sculptures by the middle school students. High schoolers showed a variety of their
work.
Student art show winners named
Winners of the student art show
at Art Center for the Islands were
announced Sunday, Dec. 3, at the
show's opening reception.
Tom McHenry is the art teacher
responsible for the students' work.
At the high school level, Dani
Huskey was first place winner among
the 38 works entered.
Rachel Davis created the second
place work and Kyle Turner the third
place.
The art work of Dana Henderson,
Austin Vickers and Kevin Hall took
honorable mention.
Brundrett Middle School artists
created painted sculptures,
McHenry said.
Austin DeBord took the win at
the seventh grade level.
She was followed by Chris Orman
in second and Tyler Goskowski in
third.
A collaboration by Steven Wilson
and Tobias Richards took honorable
mention.
Sixth grade winner was Clifton
Walther. Second place was won by
Never too early for success
Schooldays! Schooldays! Here’s
a quiz. At what age does a child’s
school program begin? The answer
is, “it depends.” The Port Aransas
Independent School District is an
integral part of the Early Childhood
Development Program, funded
through the Texas Department of
Mental Health and Mental Retarda-
tion. This program serves children
from birth to three years of age with
one or more developmental delays,
or a diagnosis that may put them at
risk for a developmental delay.
Children develop at a variety of
different rates and this is absolutely
normal. There are however, some
milestones that a parent might be-
come concerned about if a child is
not reaching at a reasonable age. For
example:
• at 3 months a child should
show interest in sounds, make coo-
ing sounds, and watch his/her
hands;
• at 6 months a child should be
able to roll over, see a small object
like a raisin, and try to hold a bottle;
• at 9 months a child should
crawl forward,
sit up, hold
his/her bottle
and say “ba”,
“ma”, or “da”.
At 12
months a child
should pull up
and stand, walk
holding furni-
ture, finger
feed, and imi-
tate gestures;
• at 18
months a child
should be walk-
PAISD ing, say five to
Special 10 words, re-
Education trieve objects
Supervisor on request;
• at 2 years a
child should be able to run, say two-
word phrases, point to pictures in
Education
Notes
Henry
Collins
books;
• at 2 1/2 years a child should
use understandable three-word sen-
tences and eat with a spoon.
If a parent or other interested
party has concerns about a child’s
development, they should feel free
to contact the Special Education
Department of PAISD, 749-1200,
or Child Find at 1-800-221-8757. A
free initial screening will be con-
ducted and if a possible develop-
mental delay is indicated an indi-
vidual program will be developed.
This program could include a wide
variety of services such as therapy,
vision, hearing, and speech services.
When the child reaches the age of
3, he/she is referred to us at the
Port Aransas schools to receive ser-
vices that are appropriate for that
individual child to be successful in
public school.
So it is never to soon to start
working toward the success of our
children!
Tessa McKeever wins local
Voice of Democracy contest
By Carolyn Richards
South Jetty reporter
Tessa McKeever, a ninth grader
at Port Aransas High School, has
won the Voice of Democracy com-
petition, which is sponsored locally
bv the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
8967.
Her tape, titled “What Price Free-
dom?,” will next be judged at the
Department (state) level.
A native of St. Paul, MN,
Mc Keever is 14. She said she hopes
to pursue a career in business man-
agement. Her object is to attend ei-
ther Texas A&M University of the
University of Texas.
She is the daughter of Patrick
McKeever, a disc jockey, and Regina
McKeever, a teacher.
In her taped presentation,
McKeever says her grandfather tells
her stories of the wars in which he
fought.
One of her most memorable sto-
ries is one about Vietnam. Her
grandfather told her that in 1969
an American GI saw a body on a
board floating down the river.
"But my granddad would not let
any of them touch the man’s body,”
she said. “First my granddad had to
pul! the board out of the watei then
he searched it for booby traps.”
"The enemy would kidnap a I J.S.
soldier and they would kill him, then
put booby traps on him so his fel-
low troops would rush to him to see
if her was still alive, but, then a booby
trap would explode.
“ I he man found floating down
the river was an Army soldier from
the Four in Division.
“Sadly, he was dead. He was shot
in the back of the head, the bullet
went all the way through his mouth
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Staff photo by Murray Judson
Voice of Democracy winner
Tessa McKeever, right, winner of the local Voice of Democracy
contest, accepts a savings bond from Vaughn Townsend,
quartermaster of the sponsoring Moore-McDonald Post 8967,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, while her proud teacher Leah Martindale
looks on. See story for details.
and his teeth were knocked out be-
cause of it.
“On this man, the enemy wrapped
radio wires all over him, but they
did something wrong, because this
time it uiu not cxpioue.
“This shows that people gave us
more than their lives for freedom
Even after death they sacrificed by
giving up their dignity.”
In her talk, McKeever said she
looked up freedom and explained
what it meant. Then she told what
it meant to her.
She went on to say, “Difficult
choices come with the price of free-
dom.
“The soldiers did not know
whether to run to the < loafing body
or to leave it, possibly saving their
own lives. It is a hard choice to make,
the life of someone else or yours.
Many people have made that choice.
“During many wars many soldiers
give up their lives, their dignity, or
their families so everyone else in the
more freedom.”
McKeever says she feels no price
is too high to pay for freedom. She
appreciates her many freedoms from
listening to music to freedom of edu-
cation.
She concludes her talk with, “So
to the men and women who have
paid for my freedom with their lives,
I say thank you."
School bands
set concerts
Port Aransas High School band
will perform its annual fall/Christ-
mas concert Wednesday, Dec. 13, in
the school cafeteria.
The evening’s program will con-
sist of a variety of concert music as
well as Christmas music.
Brundrett Middle School’s band
and the sixth grade beginner band
will present their Christmas concert
Tuesday, Dec. 19, in the middle
school gymnasium.
Admission is free.
Both concerts, which are open to
the public begin at 7 p.m.
Morgan English and third place by
Nancy Miles.
Patricia Stievo received honorable
mention.
During the reception, music was
played by Tiddle Caylor, Brian
Cummings, Eddie Lee Skipwith, Jack
Gant and Bottlehead.
The 74 pieces of student art work
will be up all through December.
The public is invited to stop by
the center at 309 N. Alister St. and
see the creative work.
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Make All-Region Band ?
Three Port Aransas students will perform Saturday, Dec. 9, at 7^
p.m. in the All-Region Clinic/Concert at West Oso High School ip*
Corpus Christi. Louie Warner and Rachel Ardoin, center, earned;
places in the tryouts in the saxophone section of the middle schobli
band. Warner qualified as first chair in the baritone saxophone!
section and Ardoin in the alto sax section. Leanne Richey qualified!
in the high school division in the clarinet section. The concert is!
open to the public. *
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