Clinton Fire Chief Brett Russell said the department ended up raising $9,924.41 last weekend during its annual two-day “Fill the Boot” campaign, which has been raising money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association for many years.
Traffic around Clinton schools was the subject of another unscheduled discussion at this week’s City Council meeting, but this time the dialogue was a lot shorter and a lot different from two weeks earlier.
At a Clinton Fire Department in-house training are, from left, Capt. Forrest Valentine and fire fighters Dylan Abner and John Denney. Valentine is leading the discussion on lessons covered in the book, “Learning the 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player.”
Clinton schools took some precautionary steps Thursday when a threat was reported to have been made on a social media site, but Clinton Supt. Kevin Hime said the threat did not prove credible and his schools never called a formal lock-down.
Washington Elementary fifth-graders, clockwise from bottom, Jaedyn Torres, Pedro Solis-Uribe, Adrian Martinez, Jose Limas and Christopher Begay participate in a town simulation discussion in Sara McCoy’s social studies class.
On the original Clinton High School football field bleachers — now part of Nance Elementary School’s playground — pre-k, kindergarten and first-grade students show their school spirit by positioning themselves to form the number “100.”
In 1522, Ferdinand Magellan’s ship, Victoria, docked in Sanlucar, Spain, completing the first global circumnavigation. Magellan himself had died en route.
In 1901, President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. He died eight days later.
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Cox, Rebekka Elizabeth: 38, died Aug. 31. Services 10 a.m. Saturday, Vinita Ave Church of Christ, Sulphur (DeArman, Sulphur).
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Pearl, Henry L. “Pops”: 63, youth minister, died Aug. 31. Wake 4 p.m. Sunday. Services 10 a.m. Monday (Sunny Lane, Del City).
JaMarley Littleton uses an iPad to read a story.
Graveside services will be held for Houston Butcher, 84, of Houston and formerly of Putnam, at 10 a.m. today at Mound Cemetery in Taloga. He died Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019, in Katy, Texas. Services will be held under the direction of Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home.