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Written by Aaron Cedeño
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 08:00 |
Cameron Philgreen may not be a regular employee at Louisburg’s Pizza Hut, but one wouldn’t have known it by watching him. 
Deftly maneuvering between two crowded tables, he settled a piping hot pizza pie on the table shared by Louisburg USD 416 Superintendent Sharon Zoellner and Assistant Superintendent Pam Best.
The interesting thing was, Philgreen wasn’t the only waiter or waitress decked out in street clothes Monday night. Many members of the Louisburg High School Marching Band could be seen filling drinks, taking orders and delivering food to tables, in an effort to raise money for the band’s upcoming performance trip to the Indianapolis 500.
Pizza Hut approached them with the idea, said band director John Cisetti, and they jumped at the opportunity. Not only do several band members work for general manager Kandy Chapman at the restaurant, but her son, sophomore Nick Chapman, is also a member of the band.
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Written by Jesse Trimble
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 08:00 |
Most of us have precious memories of summer days we spent playing baseball, grilling or hanging out at the pool. But, for a certain few, those precious summer days are spent behind the wheel of a car, learning how to drive.
Rich Brown, Louisburg High School librarian and driver’s education instructor, has been putting himself behind the wheel with teenagers for 16 years — he has some stories.
For LHS students and eighth-graders interested in taking driver’s ed this summer, the deadline to have applications in and around $200 paid is due Friday.
Although Brown has been teaching Wildcats how to drive for the last two years, he’s been in Eudora, Lawrence and Ottawa prior to joining the LHS staff.
It was in Eudora one summer that Brown got a full dose of what it takes to be a driver’s ed instructor. Brown said he had decided to take his carload of students to Lawrence on back roads, which were straight but peppered with hills. For the student behind the wheel, Brown said the class was probably one of their first opportunities to drive a car.
“Seth screamed,” Brown recalled, “and both of his hands went up in the air and off the wheel. Both feet went straight down on the gas pedal.”
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Written by Jesse Trimble
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 08:00 |
Tears streamed down third grade teacher Sarah Lohse’s face last week, after USD 416 Superintendent Sharon Zoellner and a team of the school district’s staff surprised her in the middle of class and recognized her as the district’s elementary Kansas Teacher of the Year nominee. 
Jackie Tappan was nominated for the secondary education category.
Lohse, who happened to be wearing a paper hat that resembled the Cat in the Hat’s from the Dr. Seuss book, burst into tears as she accepted flowers in front of her third-grade students.
Zoellner announced that the students of the nominated teacher would also be treated — with cookies.
“Cookies!” several shouted in unison.
“She should be teacher of the century,” one remarked.
Lohse said she always knew she wanted to be a teacher and that she’s always been a teacher at heart.
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Written by Aaron Cedeño
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 08:00 |
The way the moms saw it, the dads of Louisburg’s elementary school students may have been on to something.
Since its inception, the annual Father-Daughter Dance has been nothing short of a spectacular hit. Girls from Broadmoor and Rockville elementary schools, as well as Circle Grove pre-school in 2010, gather for a night of food, dancing and all around fun with their dads.
In the wake of such success, it didn’t take long for another idea to take shape.
“After the Father-Daughter dance last year, a lot of moms with sons were interested in something,” said Broadmoor-Rockville Parent Teacher Organization co-president Gretchen Lee. This year we definitely wanted to implement that.”
The planning has really been pretty straightforward, Lee said. The PTO put their heads to the task, and many moms stepped forward to help.
But what type of activities would the evening include? After careful consideration, the PTO came to one, simple conclusion.
“Boys are easy,” Lee said, with a laugh. “So we thought just a game night with stuff like basketball and cookies. What more could a boy want?”
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Written by Aaron Cedeño
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 08:00 |
When 10-year-old Drake Renner entered the hospital with severe heart problems prior to the start of the 2009-2010 academic year, the entire Louisburg USD 416 elementary school community held its breath.
Drake, of course, emerged from the hospital hale and hearty; a 10-inch scar now the only physical reminder of his bout with an aorta beginning to narrow, forcing his heart to pump twice as hard to deliver oxygen-rich blood to the rest of the body.
But his situation got Broadmoor Elementary School physical education teacher Aaron Webb thinking. What if there was something they could do to prevent close-call situations like Drake’s?
So he approached BES and Louisburg Middle School nurse Lisa Wisniewski with an idea.
The schools had worked with the St. Luke’s Health System before, during the purchase of their automated external defibrillators. Figuring that was a good place to start, Wisniewski said, the duo contacted St. Luke’s once again.
“I called St. Luke’s, and after talking to their resource person that helps out with the schools, she said that we should probably contact Doctor (Anthony) Magalski. He’s a cardiologist who comes and speaks at schools about heart problems in kids and athletes.”
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