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Reflections By Alta N. Oxendine Hi! The more itneresting ex periences I have to write about, the less time there is to jot them down to share with others! CORRECTION I apologize to Crystal Gayle for spelling her second name without the "Y" in a recent issue: "Is there a green spot in your life?" TO MONTANA AND BACK IN TWO DAYS (REALLY TWO MONTHS) This year it took only two dayd to go to Montana and back on my annual trip to visit Mother and others in my native state of Montana. But, like last year, I spent two whole months there before leaving the home 1 shared with Mother, Daddy, and two brothers as a high school student in the 1940's. The Rocky Mountain ranges circling the wide valley where both my parents were born are anotehr "fixture" of my growing up years which 1 always find hard to leave. For many of us, growing up near these rugged, powerful appearing, largely treeless moun tains gave a special sense of security and quiet serenity which 1 can still feel on my visits back home. Because 1 used to get so homesick for mountains, Leon kept kidding me about building a hill in our backyard. Sometimes when I go outside to hand clothes, I'm reminded of that im aginery hill. GOOD BYES l In July it was hard to say I 1 ? w w "Good-bye" 10 Wanda Kay and IICI ilU^UdUU, JCII. Ill XpiClllUl it was even harder to lease my nearly ninety-three year old mother. At a little over 100 pounds. Mother looks more frail than before and much frailer than she really is. She still brings in five or six big sticks of wood at one time, starts her otori fire, and does her own cooking. On Tuesday night, September 19, 1 told Mother and my cousin Betty "Good-bye" in Butte (where 1 spent the night before catching an early morning (light to Salt Lake City on Wednesday). At Salt Lake I changed to a jum bo jet to fly to Atlanta, also on Delta Airlines. In Atlanta, I boarded a little plane for Fayet teville on the connecting com muter service?Atlantic Southeast Airlines. That night, when Jeff and Wanda Kay came to the air port to pick me up, 1 was happy to see them anbd be back here once more. PULLED IN TWO DIREC TIONS But, as you can see, these days I'm finding myself torn in two directions, between my motehr (and my former Montana home) and my daughter (and my present North Carolina home), fhereisa positive side, of course. I'm for tunate to have two homes. One is in the northwest, where 1 was born and "brought up." The other's in the southeast, which I adopted in the 1950's. Two homes and two families. That's a lot to be thankful for! (To be continued in the future? hopefully) ?a Uctober is He Start A wareness Month TTiis year marks the twenty-fourth anniversary of Project Head Start, the comprehensive child develop ment program for low-income pre schoolers and their families, and Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Hoke, Robeson and Scotland Coun ties, and 21 Head Start centers will join more than 10,000 Head Start classrooms across the nation in celebrating the program's accom plishments during the month of October. Head Start, described as "the Crown Jewel of the Great Society" and a social program that works, has provided services to almost 11 million children and families since 1965. Locally, Head Start services are provided to 908 children by Four ' County Community Services, Inc. Project Head Start has received considerable attention in recent ? years, due to research findings * documenting the program's lasting ? effect on children. Major studies have found that children enrolled in ? Head Start and similar programs are far less likely to be held back a grade t or assigned to special education classes than low-income children _ who did not attend an early childhood program. Children who had gone through Head Start and other programs also scored higher in math, had stronger self-concepts, and their parents had greater expectations of their children's potential. Recognizing Head Start's success ful record, both President Bush and Congress have supported large in l creases in Head Start funding and ?, enrollment for 1990. Head Start * enrollment in 1989 is projected to be *. 452,314 children. I- Knee 1972, Head Start has also *' mounted a major effort to serve handicapped children, with nation *' wide enrollment of more than 59,000 ? handicapped preschoolers in 1988. ? 4 4 ? The program has involved millions of parents in the education of their children and the operation of Head Start centers, with many parents going on to become paid classroom aides and to attain college degrees. More than 34 percent of Head Start staff across the nation are parents of current or former Head Start stu dents. In reviewing the program's ach ievements, the National Head Start office reports, '' Project Head Start has had a dramatic impact on services for children in America and on the entire child development field. It has pioneered such new concepts as parent involvement in educational programs and employment of para professional classroom aides and is the largest care program for young children in the country." The Head Start program is admin istered by the Administration for Children, Youth and Families within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. For more information about local Head Start services, contact Emily L Oxendine, Head Start Director at (919)277-3500. ;? THE COACH'J COR NER ! BY KEN JOHNSON % !' -MAYBE WE NEED LOCAL HEROES "Walker All Smiles After Vik ing Debut," and "Bo" Back with a Bang In Raider Victory," wouldn't it be nice if we had col ?' lege football at PSU and could *. look upo to some of our own ?v- young men as real good players *- i and good leaders for your young people to look up to? They need ^ this and the college needs t 'something the public can grasp *? and help the college to become > alive and not be such a "dead place" every weekend. It is pitiful ? to see such a dead social environ ? ment. Dr. Joe Oxendine said, "We are going to make a mark on the area." I hope he's right. . We at this point don't know what - Ms on his mind but at the first Ar : tist Series he did a great job o( welcoming the people and he did 1 say " There are no losers here." A * great compliment to the Art Pro grams but I hope he doesn't mind ? losing football games as 1 know " from his college days he probably ! wouldn't trade his football joys and sorrows for anythingor ex perience in life. I know it is the - greatest game in the world and " nothing can compare with it. It is the greatest sport I ever coached *.; and played and I hope Dr. Joe ? ? puts it in. National Fire Prevention Week at Rex Rennert "National ttre Prevention Week" was observed at Rex-Rennert Ele mentary School October 9-13. Mr. Eddie Locklear, school custodian and a member of the Shannon Fire Department, shared fire safety tech niques with pre-school through fifth grade students at Rex-Rennert. I THANK YOU I I Your votes of I I confidence for me I I in the LREMC election I I are deeply appreciated. I I Your vote did I I make a difference! 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