A8-THE PERKINS JOURNAL, Thursday, November 13, 2003
Carney .News
Box Tops for Education
Mrs. Dowdy's first grade class
"WOW! That's the only word
:o describe the response we
aave received from the Box
)of Education program," says
Simms, Carney FCCLA
Top Committee chairper-
The month of September
collected 1018 box tops and
we collected 500."
This is the third year for the
Box Top For Education at
Carney Schools. The school
has set a goal of 3500 box tops.
"We have collected a total of
2215 box tops for the year,"
said Simms. Each month the
class that collected the most box
tops is recognized at the school
assembly. The September Box
Top class was Mrs. Dowdy's
first grade with 332 and Octo-
ber's Box Top class was Mrs.
Pearson's fourth class with 93
box tops.
FCCLA is a dynamic and
effective national student
organization that helps young
men and women become
leaders and address iraportant
personal, family, work and soci-
etal issues through family and
consumer science education.
!Bulldogs have season opener
" by Amber O'Donnell
The Carney Bulldogs split
with Coyle Bluejackets
*: on the road for the season
opener Tuesday, Nov. 4. The
Lady Bulldogs sealed a vic-
e
, tory against the Lady Jackets
58-53, while the Carney boys
,'i fell to the defending class A
state champions in a losing
effort 60-56.
Top scorers for the Lady
Bulldogs were seniors
Amber O'Donnell with 17,
and April Bailey with 15,
while Senior Elise McCalla,
Junior Kayla Avers and Nikki
i by Ashley Simms &
Sarah Martin
The month of November has
been interesting for the elemen-
tary. The third grade had a visitor
who taught them the art of oil
rubbings. Their visitors were
Mrs. Goodbury and her daughter,
Rhond,x The children were shown
how to do oil rubbings then were
allowed to choose a pattern to do
an oil rubbing of their own. Some
of the designs included: sunflow-
ers, dragons, and a house with
butterflies. The 3 graders really
seerned to enjoy this unique
i artwork.
The next exciting thing for the
month of November includes stu-
Carney Elementary Insight
dent of the month and the top AR
readers for the month. The student
of the month is Courtney Skaggs.
She is the daughter of Melvin and
Gwen Skaggs, and is presently in
the 8 th grade. She proudly stated
she was very happy to be the stu-
dent of the month for November.
The top AR readers for this
month are: Kori Contreras, 4 th
grade and Isabella Condrey, 3
grade. Kori is the top student for
grades 4-8 , reading 1,827 pages.
Isabella is the top reader for 3
grade and she read 1,660 pages.
All three students were honored in
the assembly on Friday, Nov. 7,
Ragsdale added 8 apiece and
sophomore JaNiece Milburn
chipped in 2.
Senior Ty O'Donneli led
the Bulldogs with 21 points,
followed by senior Travis
Evans with 11. Overcoming
a 12 point deficit at the end
of the first quarter, Carney
trailed by 6 at the half. Junior
Ricky Evans fouled out in
the 4 th after contributing 9
points. Robby and Charlie
O'Donnell had 8 and 7 points
respectively.
Drug assembly held t sc
by Elise McCalla
Oklahoma State University
football players, Greg Rich-
mond and Truman Carroll,
were the highlight speakers
at the Carney High School
drug assembly on Thursday,
Oct. 30.
Introduced by John Talley,
Fellowship of Christian
Athletes sponsor, the two
football players talked about
their lives and experiences
being drug free.
After the assembly, they
signed posters, had one-
on-one conversations, and
took pictures witheach
class. Questions from the
crowd included some on the
Bedlam series and how much
the individuals could bench
press.
The crowd was also enter-
tained by an impromptu
wrestling match between
sophomore Ricky Evans and
John Talley.
• Nov 12, 9am. -Talent Seamh
at Middle School
• Nov. 12,10 am.- Talent Search
plays Agra, at Carney
• Nov 17, 12:25 - Juniors taking
CREC test
-Nov 17- 7 & 8 r" Conference
Tournament begins
• Nov 18 - A P English goes to
see a play at OSU
• Nov. 18, 6:30 pm - High
School plays Olive, at Olive
• Nov. 19 - Army here to give11 =
& 12 • graders chance to take
ASVAB
• Nov 20, 1 pm - Brian Aherr
Olv IC
-meeting
n theHigh School Library
ov 20 - FCCLA to Dallas for
e duster meeting "
]'Nov 21,6:30 pm - High Sctoot
plays Davenport, at Carney
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Greg Richmond
Truman Carroll
Carney's Student of the
The teachers at Carney High
School chose
Kayla Avers
as November's
Student of the
Month. She
and a teacher of
her choice will
be awarded
a lunch at a
local eating
establishment.
Kayla, a
junior, is the
16 year old daughter of Maria
and Tracy Avers and Sony
Posey. She serves as FFA
Reporter and is a member of
the softball and basketball
Kayla Avers
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After graduation,
plans to attend
University Medical
and become a doctor.
The Chantry House
(the historic home of Pistol Pete Eaton)
Welcomes you to their
In the upcoming weeks we will many activities including the Red-
be involved in vities. neck Olympics, a coloring contest
On Nov. 17, the officer team will for elementary, and a coloring
begin taking orders for smoked contest for the middle school.
meats. We will take up the orders
the following Friday, and begin
smoking meats at 3 a.m. on Nov.
25.
The FFA officer team will be
going to the NRCS office in Chan-
dler on Dec. 8 and 9 to participate
in Blue Thumb. Blue Thumb is an
education based program to inform
the local citizens about groundwa-
ter treatment. We will be doing a
groundwater screening, to check
for nitrates, sulfate, and phos-
phates, for the NRCS district. The
last week of February, the 24-28 =,
we will he celebrating the annual
FFA week, which will consist of
It has been a pretty busy year so
far for the Cary lFA chapter. At
the [Ancoln Coty fall fair we had
several top placed livestock. The
following people placed as: Grand
Market Steer, Lukas Brown;
Reserve Prospect Steer, Lukas
*B
rown; Grand Market Lamb,
BEthel Evans; d Market Goat,
ailey Miller; Reserve Grand
M._ _t Goat, Bailey Miller.
. We also 1 a team place 3 in
g me nestock judging contest. The
members on this team included:
Eric Evans, Duel Savage, Justin
Kimmel, and Darin McFarland.
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