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Wow! Amazing news happens here!!! __________ Top Stories Easter Children By Trish Ward New! Fri Apr 10, 2009, 07:52 AM CDT First graders at Rosepine Elementary scatter in search of as many Easter eggs as possible on Thursday morning. Students at schools from throughout Vernon Parish held similar events in celebration of Easter.

a local lawyer was killed in his plane crashed shortly after take off. Also several hundred pounds more marijuana was ceased as it came across the border with Mexico when a dog detected it. The law enforcement catches thousands of pounde of marijuana and coke coming across the border each month. I am not exagerating either last year they ceased over 250,000 pounds of drugs coming across the border!

Levy failure likely will harm Newark athletic program BY SETH ROY • Advocate Reporter • April 10, 2009 NEWARK -- The Newark City Schools Athletic Department is depending on its athletes and parents to help pass the district's May 5 levy -- and keep sports at current levels next school year. "If the levy does not pass, there is no way we could have things ready to go by August," Athletic Director Kevin Jarrett told parents and students at a meeting Thursday night. The department discussed next school year's possibilities if the 7.5-mill levy passes or fails in May. The levy, which would raise $5.9 million per year for five years and cost the owner of a $100,000 home $229.69 per year, would allow the district to fund extracurricular and cocurricular activities at current levels. If the levy fails, the sports programs' prospects would become more dire, and the district wouldn't fund activities from the general fund. Options include: Eliminating sports; Increasing pay-to-participate fees to $600 per sport; Having parents and boosters raise the $572,000 cost; or Keeping just two sports per season. Although cocurricular programs, such as band and choir, don't cost as much, the district wouldn't be able to fund those programs from the general fund, either. 'I'M WORRIED ABOUT MY TOWN' The possible elimination of after-school activities isn't what parents at the meeting wanted for their children, or others. "I'm worried about my town; I'm worried about my high school," said Diana Prescott, who is the mother of two Newark graduates and a sophomore who plays volleyball and is in the orchestra. Prescott said she's concerned about the possible loss of academic programs and watering down of athletics, even though all of her children are almost through high school. "I feel bad for the people who are just starting out," she said. Although athletics aren't an integral part of education, they do play a large part in the maturing of students, both in social and leadership situations, she said. "They made so many wonderful friends from other high schools," Prescott said. Another mother, Bev Niccum, said her middle-school son has been looking forward to getting involved in track. He is in sixth grade this year and would get to go out for the team next year. Niccum said she has had to tell her son, "'There may not be track and field when you get to seventh grade.' We don't want to do that to our children." COMMITTEE SEEKING DONATIONS In addition to the levy, a group of concerned residents has formed to encourage people to donate money for the continuation of all extracurricular and cocurricular activities. The Million Dollar Dream Committee has sent letters to about 1,300 residents to ask for donations of $1,000 each. Superintendent Keith Richards said the group, which includes board President Molly Ingold and Licking County Chamber of Commerce President Cheri Hottinger, approached him about the idea previously. If the campaign is successful, it could raise $1 million strictly to help with funding extracurriculars. This doesn't mean the district wants to count on it. "We all want to stay focused on passing the levy," Richards said, adding that the levy is about more than sports and cocurricular activities. "Even with this, it wouldn't negate the passage of the levy." One positive of the million-dollar campaign would be that student pay-to-participate fees might be able to be covered at their current rates of $200 per sport and $55 per cocurricular activity. "We could get back to kids playing because they want to," Richards said, "not just because they can afford to." The exact results of what would happen should the levy fail in May aren't currently known and won't be until a cost-benefit analysis is performed. Jarrett hopes the decision of whether to cut any, or all, sports doesn't have to be made. "Of those scenarios, there's one that is the best," he said. "Pass Issue 9 on May 5. ... We can do this, but it's going to take an extraordinary effort from everybody.