Hill-Topics
Mary Humber sent this article to us last week, but just missed the deadline. Mary has been student-teaching this spring in Jim Robb's history class at Hillsboro High School.
The e-mail included this note:
"This was a great
intergenerational event that we are hoping to actually promote more
widely next spring!"
We think it's a great idea.
Here's Mary's account:
On April 23, the Hillsboro High School U.S. History classes hosted a pizza party for local high school graduates from the 1950s and 1960s.
It was a wonderful event where current juniors were able to purposefully interact with adults from Hillsboro and the surrounding communities about what it was like to be a teenager during those decades.
Toting in yearbooks, personal scrapbooks, and other memorabilia from their high school days, these generous and compassionate adults helped students grow in their understanding of life in the 1950s and '60s.
This is the second year that Mr. Robb's History classes have hosted this event. The hope is that this "mini-reunion" will become a highlight of spring activities in Hillsboro and will promote intergenerational communication within the community as well.
We hope so, too.
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I'm so lucky!
I get a gazillion e-mails a week from all over the country from people I don't even know!
Why?
Because someone is selling e-mail lists of every newspaper in the country to would-be writers, corporate interest groups, and assorted yahoos who want their news to be heard!
We were cleaning out some of these gems from the e-mail inbox this past week and came across several press releases we neglected to share with you.
To be sure, there are lots of worthwhile and newsworthy things going on out there that we can't squeeze in.
But the following samples aren't among them.
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See if you can figure out which way the wind is blowing in this one:
Wind Power's long-term potential is much greater than current world energy consumption.
The e-mail was submitted by an interest group interested in
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Not since the Hindenburg crashed has a newspaper run a headline like the one suggested for this stunner:
INNOVATIVE MINORITY-OWNED MARKETING FIRM JOINS CHOICE FOOD OF AMERICA TO SERVE NICHE AND MULTICULTURAL MARKETS IN THE U.S. RETAIL MARKET
Nashville, Tenn. — (April 24, 2007) In March 2006, innovative, Nashville-based manufacturer and marketer, Vietti Foods Company, Inc. (now Choice Food of America, LLC), joined with Marcela Gómez of the Hispanic Marketing Group to form Diversity Brands LLC.
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Here's a pitch from a publicist about the next surefire bestseller:
The first book, of the Lynn Woo mystery thriller novels, Boca Moon (Hilliard & Harris Publishing), will be released June 2007 and will be available from major booksellers in the United States and most online stores.
Lynn Woo gets help from a huge black sheriff's deputy who is her best island friend, her hand washing lover who has Howard Hughes Syndrome, and she relies on her one-eared black lab, Mullet, for comfort and whimpering understanding. The rest of the diverse cast includes a full-blooded Seminole Indian and his fiery daughter, some seamy commercial fishermen and
a quirky sheriff's detective.
Would you be interested in reviewing this book for your publication?
Woo who?
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I'm thinking that this press mogul has way to much free time:
Press Release: TRICARE Web site down for maintenance April 21
FALLS CHURCH, Va. - The TRICARE Web site at
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We really were tempted by this tidbit, but due to space and budget constraints we opted not to run with this story. But we offer the pitch to you as a public service:
With summer coming up, and rattlesnakes getting more active as the temperatures warm, the potential for dogs to get bitten by rattlesnakes increases dramatically.
To avoid this, increasing numbers of people are putting their dogs through snake avoidance training — training that teaches them to avoid rattlesnakes.
I've written a feature story of approximately 900 words about "snake breaking" for dogs that I think will be of great interest to your readers.
I've also got the following pictures in jpeg format at 300 dpi to illustrate the story. I hope you like the story, and are interested in publishing it in your newspaper. If so, I would be happy to discuss the details with you. Thanks for the consideration.
See why I love this job?
— GRANT OVERSTAKE
