Blood Drive For
Special Cause
Matthew Blue, of Mt. Airy BoyScout
Troop 326. will be sponsoring
a blood drive to earn his Eagle Scout
badge. The blood drive will be held
at Bear Swamp Baptist Church in
Pembroke. N. C. on Saturday. December
22. 2001 from 9:00 a.m.- 1:30
p.m.
f( From the Desk of the *
Superintendent
by Dr. Barry Harding, Public Schools of Robeson County
A fire set in a trash basket in a rest room or anywhere else in a school
building is not something to take lightly. The amount of damage that it actually
causes is onls the beginning of the problem, forget about the fact that the
person setting the fire has no way of knowing how serious the results may be.
It begins with the threat of the fire causing the school building to be evacuated
for the safety of the students. That, of course, results in the learning
process being adversely affected. If you're not in the classroom, there can be
no teaching or learning. I he interruption can result in about an hour's worth
of time being lost.
Moving a large number of students out of the building and then back in can
also result in accidental injuries to the students being moved in such an emergency
situation. I hen. there is the matter of smoke from the fire ending up in
the vents through which heating and air conditioning normally flows. There
are. unfortunately, some students who may have respiratory problems for whom
the presence of smoke in the air is a problem.
To this point. I've not even mentioned the damage that can be caused by the
fire itself. What if a fire set in what the student setting it considers a relatively
safe place insofar as a full-blown fire is concerned, gets out of hand? It's
impossible to know the number of injuries or the amount of damage that
might result. Even a relatively minor fire costs us money in both actual damage
and the time spent by maintenance employees in cleaning up-often before
the students can be allowed back into class. A recent fire in one of our
schools which did no structural damage to the building still wound up costing
about S8.000. The number of fires we have had set by students during the
current school year is staning to get out of hand.
On the surface, the answer appears to be rather simple. Find the student
responsible and expel him or her. Our Policy Manual calls for that. I really
don't know how anyone- even the parents of the guilty student- could find
fault with that. The argument that the student was just fooling around- that the
act wasn't intended to cause damage or hurt anyone really is hard to accept.
It's an extremely dangerous act and the student certainly should've been taught
that by his or her parents. That's true even if the parents were required to
reimburse the school system for the damage caused by the fire. Loss of life or
injuries caused in something else again.
There's something else that the prankster- if that's what the student is labeled
hasn't considered and should. That is the effect that his expulsion has
on his record- especially if further education is being considered. And. of
course, there is the effect of missing a year of school- assuming that the student
returns after being expelled.
I don't think it's too late for parents to sit down with their children and
discuss their behav ior. A frank discussion may result in their realization of
how such a "prank" can effect their lives and the lives of others.
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Along the Robeson Trail
By Dr. Stan Knick, Director-UNCP Native American Resource Center
When we think of Indian
settlements or "villages" before
Columbus, most often we envision
relatively small groups of people
living together. For much of
prehistory, this was true. When
Native Americans were nomadic, they
probably lived in groups of 25 or 30.
When they became semi-sedentary
(seasonal occupations) in the Archaic
period, groups grew to 50 or 75 people.
And when they became sedentary
fanners in the Woodland period,
villages usually were home for less
than 300 people. But there are some
examples of Native American
settlements which are huge by
comparison.
One such example is the
settlement at Cahokia, Illinois, just
east of St. Louis. This "settlement"
was really a city. At its height of
influence, it was an expansive trading
and ceremonial complex covering
about six square miles. Population
estimates forCahokiarun from 20,000
to 40,000 people!
Cahokia was possibly the largest
Native American city in North
America, inhabited during the period
from 700 A.D. to 1500 A.D.. It
represents the peak of what
archaeologists call Mississippian
culture, the very complex way of life
which apparently spread from the south
into what is now the United States.
Cahokia had many similarities to the
Town Creek site, near Mt. Gilead,
North Carolina, except on a much
larger scale.
The central focus of Cahokia
today is a gigantic earthen mound. It
is called Monks Mound, and is the
largest mound built by Native
Americans north of Mexico. Like the
mound at Town Creek, it is a flatlopped
mound which had a temple
structure built on top. It has been
estimated that the people of Cahokia
had to move 22 million cubic feet of
earth to construct Monks Mound! It
stands over ten stories tall, and is over
1,000 feet long!
But this is not the only mound at
Cahokia. Within the immediate area
there were over 100 smaller mounds,
68 of which have been preserved within
the State Historic Site maintained by
the Illinois Historic Preservation
Agency.
There are actually three different
types of mounds at Cahokia. Most
common are the flat-topped or
"platform" mounds like Monks
Mound. But there are aisocone-shaped
and "ridgetop" mounds, which were
used for burials of high-status people,
and to mark significant places within
the city. However, most of the people
of Cahokia were not buried in mounds;
most were laid to rest in cemeteries on
level ground.
Some of the most fascinating
aspects of Cahokia are called
"Woodhenges," so-named because
they are similar to Stonehenge in
England. These are at least four
locations within the city at which
large circles of log posts, each
surrounding a central post, form
giant calendars. By standing at the
center post and looking outward,
focusing on certain posts in the
circle, one can find the place on the
horizon at which the sun rises and
sets at the spring and fall equinoxes
and the summer and winter solstices.
These massive calendars, like the
layout of the mounds at Cahokia. Town
Creek and many other places,
allowed Native Americans of the
Mississippian culture to keep precise
track of important annual ritual
cycles. Probably most significant
among these ritual cycles were the
changing seasons, and their
connection to planting and harvesting.
Thus, at a great many far-removed
places in the Midwest and Southeast,
Native Americans conducted similar
ceremonies on the same days\
All of this tells us that
these prehistoric Native Americans
were quite advanced in their
understanding of astronomy as well
as engineering. The evidence at
Cahokia also gives us a glimpse of
the complex social, economic and
political lives of these people.
Development and maintenance of
a society such as this required an
elaborate system of cooperation,
values and beliefs, most of which we
can only imagine. By the time the first
French explorers of the Mississippi
Valley got to Cahokia, all they found
visible on the surface were mounds,
long overgrown by vegetation.
Exactly what happened to the original
people of Cahokia will probably never
be known.
For more information about
mounds and Mississippians, visit the
Native American Resource Center in
historic Old Main Building, on the
campus of The University of North
Carolina at Pembroke (our Internet
address is www.uncp.edu/
nativemuseum).
Church at the Forks
On Saturday. November 3, 2001 a
group from West Robeson United
Methodist Church attended the Christian
Youth Day at the North Carolina
Motor Speedway in Rockingham.
NC.
The day's scheduled events included
a testimonial session with
some of the Bush drivers, lunch, entertainment
and the Sam's Club 200
Bush Race.
While waiting for the race to begin
the group watched 2 practice sessions
for the Winston cars, browsed the
shops for souvenirs of their favorite
drivers and checked out some of the
exhibits.
Chris Locklear took on the pit crew
challenge at the Rubbermaid and
Sharpie Pen booth. Chris came in first
~~
place in his tire changing challenge
and received an opportunity to try
for a larger prize.
The Rockingham First United
Methodist Church sponsors the
Christian Youth Day Event each
year. The event |ives the youth an
opportunity to enjoy fun and fellowship
with each other and encourages
them to do as Philippians 3:14 states,
"Press toward the mark for the prize
of the high calling of God in Christ
Jesus.
We held revival services November
25-27, and would like to thank
Reverends, Dwayne Lowry,. Chjp
Bass and David Malcolm for bringing
us spiritual messages, which left
us with a great sense of renewal and
revival.
We like to invite everyone to join
us for the Christmas Ball of Friday,
December 7, *2001 and to our Christmas
Play on Sunday, December 16,
200 i. The Christmas Ball Fund-raiser
is sponsored by the United Methodist
Women and the proceeds will go to .
support mission work. For more information
on the Christmas Ball, contact
Mrs. Lucille Locklear at 5210544
or Mrs. Elizabeth Marshall at
844-5738.
West Robeson UMC has Sunday
School at-9:00 a.m. and worship Service
at 10:00 a.m. We like to have you
visit us and ifyou have any questions
about West Robeson UMC or any of
scheduled events please call Rev.
Marshall Locklear at 521-0544.
Three members of the group from West Robeson UMC who attended the Christian Youth Day at "Koc/r ere, front to Dec*, Ryan
Lowry, Tyler Marshall and Blake Strickland.
C/irfj Locklear from Wait Robeson UMC is shown here taking the pit crew tire changing competition at the "Rock" on Christian Youth
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