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Fair Offers Fun—damentals
Ride a pony or a train, play bingo
or take a cake walk at the Bolivia
Elementary School May Fair
celebration Saturday, May 23, from 9
a.m. to 1 p.m.
The annual festival opens with the
traditional winding of the May Pole
by third grade students and the
crowning of a May Queen from the
fifth grade. This year for the first
time, her court will include represen
tation from each grade.
Also on the May Fair program are
activities by each grade, including a
softball tournament between fourth
and fifth graders, a parachute dance
by second graders, a demonstration
by the jump rope club and a “Putting
On The Hits" lip-synch contest.
Games for youngsters will Include
a fishing booth, duck pond, ring toss,
beanbag toss, darts and lollipop tree.
Because of the school’s success in
earlier fundraising projects this
year, said a spokesman, this year’s
May Fair “is not being held as a fun
draiser, but as a fun day for the
kids."
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BY TERRY POPE
Role models and drugs were the
topics of winning speeches that earn
ed two Brunswick County seniors
$2,500 college scholarships Sunday in
the 16th annual Virginia and Odell
Williamson Oratory Contest.
Monica Richardson, of North
Brunswick High, and Michael White,
of South Brunswick High, gave the
winning speeches at Uie county com
petition held at South Brunswick.
A female and a male from each of
the three county high schools com
peted for the scholarships, which are
awarded each year by Ocean Isle
Beach developer Odell Williamson
and his wife, Virginia. Previously-
selected school winners were each
awarded $100 in cash and the right to
compete for the county scholarships.
Al^ competing Sunday were Col
leen Glasgow, first runner-up, of
South Brunswick; and Leigh Atui
Frink, second runner-up, of West
Brunswick girls division; and
Christopher Maynard, first runner-
up, West Brunswick; and Charles
Thomas, second runner-up, of North
Brunswick.
Richardson’s speech, titled “Role
Models," dealt with the three types of
persons who serve as role models for
young children—teachers, television
stars and sports stars.
She pointed out how New York
Mets baseball pitcher Dwight
Gooden had let his young fans down
earlier this year by becoming ad
dicted to cocaine.
“Why couldn’t he depend on God
instead of cocaine?” she asked.
Many television stars who serve as
a child's role model are also abusers
of drugs, Richardson added.
“Parents, you must understand
you have to be the role model,” she
said.
White’s winning speech on
"Drugs" dealt with the pressures
that force young people to turn to
drugs.
He said it is often a “combination
of other pressures combined with
peer pressures" that make teenagers
turn to drugs.
“The power of that drug sneaks up
on you and you don’t even see it,”
White said.
“Whole families have been ruined
by drugs," White said. “But I know
one person who is going to make it.
I’m going to make it.”
In Glasgow’s speech, titled “Mar
riage Of Self-Confidence," she asked
the audience “to have faith and trust
in yourselves.
“You all look like worthy people to
me," she added.' ’’' ’’ '
Self-confident people, she said, do
not let their physical appearances
worry them.
To end her speech, Glasgow asked
the audience to raise their right
hands and to take an oath of self-
confidence.
Thomas’ speech, titled “The
Japanese Elducational System vs.
The American Educational System,"
compared American schools with
those in Japan.
Thomas also compared the roles
that parents play in educating
children in America and in Japan.
In Japan, Thomas said, after
school activities are geared toward
education.
Maynard’s speech, titled “Teen
Suicide,” explored why teenagers
take their own lives at the rate of one
every 90 minutes.
Learning to detect tlie early signs
of depression can help prevent teen
suicides, he said.
Often, Maynard said, the signs are
when students tend to stay in isola
tion and to become defensive.
Depressed students also begin to fall
grades at school, he said.
Frink’s speech, titled “Setting and
Achieving Goals,” told of her wish to
become a writer and of her need to
achieve her own goals in life.
“You’re never too young to know
what you want out of life,” she said.
To achieve one’s goals requires
both a positive attitude and deter
mination, Frink said.
“Our dreams can come true,” she
is^d; “but if we’re waiting for a fairy
' godmother then we’ve got a Ibng way
to go."
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