TOP LAKELANDS NEWS
Lottery
funds helping local schools
By TASHA
STEIMER
Index-Journal
staff writer
Local
school districts are using state lottery funds to increase
staff, update materials and support various programs for
students this year.
Janell Alston, director of elementary
education, said Greenwood School District 50 received $688,600
for kindergarten through fifth-grade students for the 2004-05
school year.
“We were able to add three more literacy
coaches,” she said. “Now we have at least one part-time coach
at each (elementary) school.”
Alston said the funds also
provided two English as a Second Language teachers and support
for an additional kindergarten class at East End Elementary.
Two part-time “push-in” teachers – tutors or mentors who
travel between schools and work with students in small groups
– were also hired.
Alston said other funds will be used to
pay for additional staff development in the literacy program,
and some is set aside to support summer programs that could
include mini-learning camps for students.
“All elementary
students will benefit from these funds,” she said.
TOP SPORTS NEWS
Cavaliers
return
Football
back at Long Cane, but for just 1 season
By RON
COX
Index-Journal
sports writer
McCORMICK —
Eight-man football is back in Greenwood and the
Lakelands area.
After a year off because of a lack of
numbers, the Long Cane Academy football team returned to
action Thursday night at home with its season-opening game
against Laurens Academy.
“I love it,” Cavaliers coach
Freddy Carter said. “The kids are ready. Last year we didn’t
have but one senior. We really didn’t have enough to
play.
“It hurt. It crushed us. But in a way, it gave them
the whole year to hit the weights and get ready for this
year.”
But those feelings might could come back again in
2005, when numbers go down again next year.
Still, Long
Cane headmaster and athletic director Dr. Ernest Stokes said
it was good to see the red uniforms on the field
again.
“I’m glad to have it back,” Stokes said. “It’s
important to the community, the faculty, the students and the
coaches.
