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NO. 2 RIVERSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LOST CREEK, KY 41348 OCTOBER 2006 25 CENTS

100 Years as “A Light in the Hills”

Alumni Day has new features From turnout to burnout to lights out, it was a real good day.

The Alumni Association of Riverside Christian School held its annual October Homecoming last weekend. The events began with the nighttime Ram 5K Run/2 Mile Walk on Friday. A number of alumni took part and two were winners, Andy Keck and Lisa Smith. (See SPORTS) A new addition to the Homecoming took place on Saturday. A Car Show was held on the baseball field. A variety of vehicles were on display, including several owned by alumni. The show included live music and a number of door prizes. (See p.5) Members in attendance for three classes were treated in the school cafeteria. They

were the classes of 1986, 1996, and 2001. Then the action moved to the gymnasium. The opener was the current Lady Rams taking on Lady Rams from past years. The combined talent from several years was a little too much for the var-sity ladies. The alumni won. It was a repeat when the varsity Rams took on a very talented alumni team. Not enough years have passed to lessen the skills of those men. The alumni claimed a second victory for the evening. Throughout the evening cake walks were held for all ages to join in. Many cakes were given away. Also door prizes were awarded at differ-ent times. Alumni were each given a

book of coupons to help make their day a little more special. Two faithful returnees for Alumni Day are Alberta (Birdie) Miller Robinson ‘75 and Don Shackelford ‘76. Each shared an outstanding memory from their years at Riverside. Birdie: “’Ma’ Burroughs said she was disappointed in me for going swimming in Trouble-some Creek. I felt terrible and kept waiting for punish-ment...it never came.” Don: “My entire life at Riv-erside is an outstanding mem-ory.” Amanda (Gross) Begley and Ryan Begley became part of the

welcome for alumni.

A car show on the baseball field with a food tent, many door prizes, and live music was a new

addition to the traditional Alumni Day/Homecoming and brought out a number of alumni and

others.

Seniors Brett Stacy, Paige Sizemore, and Brandon Hudson

display their winning art work. (see pg. 2)

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There are some things in life that are hard to talk about. {Physical and sexual abuse certainly fall into that cate-gory.} Sometimes it’s possible to approach a subject like abuse in a less threatening way, making it easier even for chil-dren to ask questions and get answers. Two Riverside staff mem-bers, Kathy Keck and Marcia Thompson, volunteered to help the Council on Family Vio-lence share with visitors to the Heritage Fair messages on safety and sexual abuse through the use of puppets. The skits included “Bad Strangers” (how to respond safely if approached by a stranger), “ Emergency Num-bers” (what phone numbers you need to know in case of emergency), and “Between Friends” (sharing with a friend about telling an adult when abuse has occurred.) Two performances were given of the set of three scripts and although the audiences were small, it was good prac-tice for possible future oppor-tunities to use this material.

Mrs. Gross took the Art History class to the Univer-sity of Kentucky Art Museum to see “A Romance to Impres-sionism.” This was a travel-ing exhibit making its first stop. Master artists’ works of the 19th century in France were displayed in the museum. There was also American Im-pressionism which brings a native comment to the glory of the landscape. There were huge wall paint-ings, medium and tiny paint-ings. Lamps, desk materials,

quilts, posters, and sculptures were also included in the mu-seum. The museum had a beautiful atmosphere. The art that is in the UK Art Museum reminds us that, just as some things change, beauty remains the same. Brett learned many different ways a person can paint. Brandon saw there are many different tastes in art. Paige discovered art can be found everywhere a person can go. The seniors agreed that it was a good experience to see these famous paintings in real life.

The Honor Roll for the first six weeks finds two seniors leading the top honors.

Principal’s List Brandon Hudson 98.1 Paige Sizemore 96.9 Justin Tapio 96.9 Beretta Roberts 96.1

Honor Roll Brett Stacy 94. Dell Rose 93.9 Jessica Sizemore 93.6 Randall Hardin 93.4 Kendra Crowe 91.1

Honorable Mention Whitney Noble 90.7 Ashley Tincher 89.9 Brittany Neace 89.6 Jessi Lovins 87.9 Three eighth graders claimed top honors on the Junior High Honors List.

Principal’s List Bethany Butters 96.6 Maura Watkins 95.9 Treven Back 95.2

Honor Roll Aungellica Downing 93.6 Katlynn French 93.2 Tia Combs 92.7 Taylor Fugate 92

Honorable Mention Kayla Noble 89.2 Patrick Haddix 89.1 Daniel Smith 88.7 Tommy Moore 87.3

Not all trips away from school are for students. There’s one coming soon for teachers and staff only. Riverside faculty and staff will travel to Dayton, Ohio, to attend a Regional Convention of the Association of Chris-tian Schools International on November 9 and 10. All the RCS people look forward to these annual con-ventions. They always in-clude general assemblies with outstanding speakers and mu-sicians. There are generally over 2000 in attendance which makes for a great choir singing praises to God. Between assembly times

there are many and various workshops from which to choose. Workshops are avail-able for secondary teachers, elementary teachers, librari-ans, coaches, etc. Another feature of the Con-vention is vendors booths with many items of interest for classrooms. RCS teachers appreciate the PTF providing funds for the teachers to pur-chase classroom materials. “Teaching to Transform: Engage Intellectual Develop-ment” is the theme for the 2006 Convention which will be held at the Dayton Con-vention Center.

Varsity and junior varsity cheerleaders rode on a float in the parade at the Heritage Fair Saturday morning. The cheerleaders met at 12:00 o’clock, changed into their uniforms, and gathered

the candy to throw. They went through town and threw candy and cheered for the crowd. They began at SMS and finished at the Douthitt Park. The cheerleaders would like to give a special thanks to Ernie Roberts for providing his rollback and to everyone who helped with the decorat-ing and getting the candy to-gether. The cheerleaders ap-preciate it very much.

A tradition in progress is the Heritage Fair held in Jack-son in October. Riverside, as well as the other schools in the county, had a number of opportunities to get involved.

Art Fair

The three senior members of the Art History class had entries in the Heritage Art Fair competition. Paige Sizemore was the overall winner with her chalk drawing of a dad and daugh-ter. She received a $50 Sav-ings Bond. Brett Stacy came in second in the pencil drawing cate-gory. His drawing was a dog. Brandon Hudson came in third in that same category with his drawing of a wagon. Spelling Bee

A spelling bee was another part of the Heritage Fair weekend activities. It was held at the UK Substation at Quicksand. Riverside had eight partici-pants in the competition, two from each of the following grades: 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th. Treven Back and Katy French represented the eighth grade. Treven came in sec-ond in his division. Jammie Napier and Austin Fugate represented the sixth grade. Aaron Enfusse and Tiffany Johnson represented the fourth grade. Rose Had-dix and Kaleigh Smith repre-sented the second grade.

Students tour Art Museum

Riverside varsity and elementary cheerleaders rode on a

float in the Heritage Fair parade.

Puppets

Cheerleaders

RCS joins in local fair

These students participated in the Heritage Fair spelling bee.

Front row, l-r: Rose Haddix, Tiffany Johnson, Kaleigh

Smith, Aaron Enfusse. Back row, l-r: Katie French, Austin

Fugate, Treven Back, Jammie Napier, Zack Watts.

Honor Roll Teachers to attend Dayton convention

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The seniors and Miss Thompson went to the Forum in Hazard to see the Barter Theatre presentation “Man of Constant Sorrow.” The show was a true Appa-lachian Bluegrass story based on the lives of the Stanley Brothers, Ralph and Carter. The two act play was a part of the Greater Hazard Area Per-forming Arts Series. Act 1 told how the Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys got their band started and on the air. Trials and hardship came their way many times but they pulled through together. Act II showed how hard life on the road was for the Stanley Bothers. Carter’s and Ralph’s traveling made it hard for the brothers’ families. The middle of Act II showed how Carter’s drinking

problem caught up with him and resulted in his death. His death left Ralph Stanley, the family and the band in grief. Ralph and the Clinch Moun-tain Boys kept the concerts roll-ing and stayed on the radio. In February 2002, “Man of Con-stant Sorrow” by Ralph Stanley was sung at the Grammy Awards. Throughout the program places and dates in the year where events took place were shown on a screen in power point. Also throughout the play there were many flashbacks and songs that came together with play lines. Many features were woven into the show and greatly en-joyed by the audience. In some parts the crowd of people in the audience would clap and sing with the performers and other times in the show the people were silent, every eye focused on the show.

A new member, Michael John Alex, has joined River-side staff and faculty. His responsibilities at Riverside are maintenance, coaching both the elementary and Jr. Hi teams (boys and girls), and teaching P.E. He also drives an evening, bus run now and again. Mr. Alex attended high-school at Sprague in Salem, Oregon where he grew up. Then he went on to attend Commonwealth Baptist Bible College in Lexington, Ken-tucky. Before coming here he was “pretty much into the mission field.” He heard about this job by word of mouth through his pastor at the time. He has been married for about 5 months. His wife is Tayaeka Alex, also a new member to the Riverside staff. What is most important to him is his wife he said. A few of his hobbies are coaching, and working since he started working here. He also enjoys going to church. He likes the hours most about his job. Most challeng-ing about his job is getting things approved through Miss

Mrs. Bea Roberts and Mr. Larry Monroe, RCS faculty, recently attended the KCTM Math Conference held at Anne Mason Elementary School in Georgetown, Ken-tucky. “While this is always a great time to catch up on the latest math news and work-shops,” said Mrs. Roberts, “this also gives us a chance to visit with fellow math teach-ers from across the state.” This year’s speaker was Cathy Seely, the past presi-dent of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Ms. Seeley, an excellent speaker both entertaining and informative, stressed the im-portance that we not “lose sight of the goal for the sake of the test.” She said that we need to teach the students how to think so they can have skills they will need for the world

outside of school. Mrs. Roberts concentrated on workshops for the ele-mentary teachers in order to bring materials and ideas back to Riverside’s elemen-tary teachers. Mr. Monroe attended workshops aimed at the high school level. One of the workshops that Mrs. Roberts attended was on Cabri Jr., an application for the graphing calculator that is available free from Texas Instruments website. This past week her stu-dents installed this Apps on their graphing calculators and began using this pro-gram in geometry class to construct lines, segments and angles. Mr. Monroe attended some workshops on quadratic functions. Both teachers felt the Conference was very worthwhile.

Burroughs and doing all he can to make everyone happy. Meet Mrs. Tayaeka Alex. Mrs. Alex is a new face on the staff and faculty at River-side. Her position at Riverside is helping teach 7th and 8th grade. Mrs. Alex graduated from high school at Mt. Carmel in Vancleve, Kentucky. She later went on to attend college at Commonwealth Baptist Bible College in Lexington, Kentucky. She and her hus-band were working mostly in the mission field before com-ing to Riverside. She has been married for 5 months and says most impor-

tant to her is her husband. Mrs. Alex says she enjoys reading, volleyball, and doing latch hook. She came to find out about this job when the principal, Mr. Dan VanSkyhawk, called her house and she says, “It just went from there.” Mrs. Alex says she likes Riverside. She said, “I love being able to help the students and just be-ing around them.” Mrs. Alex says the most challenging thing about her job is that she is afraid of fail-ing as a teacher. Mrs. Alex says she is looking forward to a great year.

A PTF/Boosters meeting was held on October 16. During the PTF meeting reports were given on the Student Council Bumblebee fundraiser and the calculator screen for Mrs. Rob-erts math classes. The group also discussed Riverside’s involvement in the Heritage Fair and the outcome of the Ride for Riverside. The new business was the need for a new riser for Lower Lights performances. A deci-sion was made that depending

on the cost at least one would be purchased. Then the group voted to give each classroom $50 to spend at the ACSI Convention. Finally, they decided that the next fund-raiser would be selling Avon products During the Boosters meeting it

was agreed to pay for the cheerleaders shoes. The new cross country uniforms have arrived. With the Booster grade school tourney coming up a lot of help will be needed. The last business discussed was honoring the cross country runners after their last meet.

Teachers bring reports from math conference

Students attend Hazard concert Meet Mr. and Mrs. Alex...

Newlyweds join Riverside staff

PTF/Boosters help teachers, cheerleaders

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Published by the Riverside Christian School Journalism Class, monthly September through May Staff 2006-2007— Brandon Hudson, Jessi Lovins, Paige Sizemore. Photography and tech-nical support— Becky Baker, Nancy Hostetler, Larry Monroe.

By Paige Sizemore Beacon Staff

By Brandon Hudson Beacon Staff

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Car Show highlights Alumni Day

What a day! The October weather was perfect for the Alumni Day Car Show, the live band was great, the food was delicious, and we topped it off with a burn out with eleven cars.

Recently the fifth, sixth, sev-enth, and eighth grade classes went to Knott County on their annual field trip to Camp Na-thanael. The reason they went is it’s a nature learning experi-ence for the students. They went through several different workshops learning about soil and pollution. They learned to use the scientific method to find a mystery pow-der. The theme of this year’s popular outdoor ed program was “Wilderness Wandering.” The highlight of the trip was the picnic lunch, and having fun learning. Mostly the kids enjoyed being able to partici-pate in the experiments.

Two new faces have joined Riverside, Whitney Noble and Brandon Potter. Meet our new students, Brandon Potter comes from Jackson Independent School. He is a freshman. He said, “The people at Riverside are surprisingly friendly.” His hobby is to play Runescape online. Whitney Noble is in the 7th grade. The previous school

Everyone who came to the Car Show was eligible for a

door prize, of which there were many. The car owners who registered their cars (free!) were also eligible for special

door prize drawings and re-ceived goody bags. Thanks to the many businesses who do-nated the door prizes. A lot of people left with many items.

Over 30 cars were present for the show and shine part of the day. Everyone visited and compared vehicles. Around 2:00 p.m. the burnout began with eleven vehicles. People gathered safely in-side the fence of the ball field, while those cars in the burn-out lined up on the blacktop road. The winner (chosen by peo-ple’s choice votes) of the burnout contest was Jeff No-ble in a 1970 Chevelle. The runner-up was an S-10 pickup. Coming in at third place was Dewey Francis in his 1932 Ford highboy. The Alumni Association would like to thank all the businesses and people who donated items, gave time, or helped in any way with the Saturday event.

“I don’t have an opinion about it, but field trips are al-ways fun,” stated Ms. Gross.” “I was really impressed with the way it was handled,” said

Mr. Keck. “It was very hands on. It gave everyone the op-portunity to take part in the scientific method.” “We learned how everything comes from soil,” he added.

she attended was S.M.S. She likes Riverside better than S.M.S., because of cheer-leading, basketball, and soft-ball. Her hobby is to swim.

Birthdays October

Jessi Lovins— 1 Deanna Hollan – 3 Mary Strong— 11 Erin Butters— 25

Tommy Moore— 25 Dell Rose— 29

By Paige Sizemore Beacon Staff

By Jessi Lovins Beacon Staff

Whitney Noble Brandon Potter

The mysteries of soil…

Students learn out of the classroom

We’re still growing…

New students welcomed

Paul Collins creates lots of smoke.

Jeff Noble won the burnout.

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In this year’s Doran Hostetler Memorial Grade School Tour-ney, sponsored by the Boosters Club, eight local teams com-peted in the boys division. The teams were Buckhorn, LBJ Blue, Riverside, Jackson City, LBJ Gold, Highland Turner, Marie Roberts/Caney, and Rousseau. In the championship game

Marie Roberts/Caney de-feated Buckhorn, 46-37. LBJ Gold came in third. The Sportsmanship trophy was awarded to Riverside and two of the junior Rams made the All-Star Team, Jordan Daniels and Brian Johnson. The girls tourney is under-way as this paper goes to press.

Following a tradition that hardly anyone can remember its beginning, the annual Alumni Day/Homecoming was capped off with two bas-ketball games. One game put the current Lady Rams competing against some of the talented Lady Rams of the past several years. The alumni won. It was a repeat when the varsity Rams took on a very talented alumni team. The alumni won a hard fought battle, 77-65.

You won’t see it on the golf course, or the baseball dia-mond, and definitely not on the football field… But a unique and very spe-cial part of road runs is that runners of all ages can be out on the course at the same time– running for all they’re worth. Often you will hear them cheering each other on. This well describes the Ram Run/Walk held last week on the Riverside Christian School campus. Twenty-seven runners from ages 10 to 69 joined together in the cool night air to run the 3.1 miles. Randall Watts, 51, from Garner in Knott County, was the first to cross the finish line. Watts, who has won this race many times, said he was fighting a cold but felt good out there.. So he should . His fine time of 18:50 was better than last year’s 19:10. Two more runners came in under 20 minutes. Josh Smith, 16, from Cynthiana, finished at 19:49. Jeff Nolan, 44, from Hazard, who has been run-ning for 24 years and aver-ages 35 miles a week, fin-ished at 19:54. Tiffany Johnson, a ten year old 4th grader, led the way in the women’s division, finish-ing in 25:25. Just 31 seconds back in second place was Elesha Richardson. She has-n’t been able to run much lately, but says this is one of her favorite courses. Her time in 2004 was 22:43.

Other runners in the Men’s Division were as follows; 11-14—Steve Johnson, 21:10, Brian Johnson, 23:39, Tyler Smith, 27:24; 15-19—Jimmy Noble, 20:05, Brandon Hud-son, 25:38, Joey Gross, 29:26; 30-39—Tony Little, 24:08, Shane Combs, 28:34; 40-49--Greg Frasure, 21:14; 50-59--Jamie Brunk, 23:57, Bob Turner, 28:27; 60-65—Harold Deaton, 21:21; 65 & over– Bill Francis, 25:44, Jack Lowe, 25:57, Connel Polly, 30:18. Andy Keck, RCS cross country coach, received a tro-phy for first male alumni fin-isher. His time was 20:42. Other runners in the Women’s Division are as fol-lows: 11-14— Deanna Noble, 29:27, Bethany Butters, 36:23, Aungellica Downing, 36:24; 15-19– Beretta Rob-erts, 27:25, Paige Sizemore, 38:24, 20-29– Teddy Frasure, 29:56. Two Mile Walk Riverside alumnus, Lisa

Smith, ’84, led in the Ram Two Mile Walk in a time of 28: 33. A recent alumnus, Bobbie Jo Haddix, ‘06 came in second in 29:20. Third was Mary Crowe in 29:21. Other walkers are as fol-lows: Renae Haddix, 32:09, Glenn Neace, 32:52, Penny Francis, 33:06, and Lois Puffer, 33:07. Neace, Francis and Puffer are also Alumni. Bill Francis and Harold Deaton have run in every Ram Run that has been held. Francis has been running for 16 years. Deaton has run 22 marathons, including 2 in Boston and one in Alaska. Shane Combs and Bob Turner were first timers in the Ram Run. Both liked the course and being less experi-enced runners asked, good naturedly, if next year they might be allowed a little head start on the others. Jimmy Noble from Buck-horn said, “This is one of my favorite runs.” Several others shared the same comment.

Full Name:Heather Jane Baker Birth Date: June 30, 1994 Parents: Tracy and Johnathan Baker Sports played/ position: I only cheer Favorite Food: Mandarin Beef Favorite movie/ tv show: La-guna Beach

If a movie were made about

my life this actor/actress

would play my role: Reese Witherspoon

Favorite singer/group: Rhianna

Top 3 Songs: Miss New Booty, London Bridge Cds that are controlling my

stereo right now: Now 22, The Dutchess Hobbies:Cheer, dance, volley-ball Something not too many peo-

ple know about me: I’m afraid of the dark. Three words to describe me:

Girly, pretty, funny Secret ambition:To Sing I can’t live without: Friends Favorite book or magazine: Cosmo Girl If I could relive any past

event in history it would be:

Invention of chocolate Person in history I would

like to meet: The inventor of chocolate Person I most admire: Mom

Something really important

to me: My brother

In 10 years I would like to

be: Cheering for the Dallas Cowboys

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Doran Hostetler Memorial Tournament

Jordan accepts trophy for team.

Ram Run/Walk kicks off Alumni Weekend

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This year the Riverside High School Varsity Rams team has a new coach. This new coach is James E. Turner. James grew up in Breathitt County, and is from Lick Branch in Breathitt County. In high school James at-tended Breathitt County High School and Buckhorn High School and played basketball himself through high-school. Later he went on to attend col-lege at Lees Community Col-lege, Hazard Community Col-lege and Morehead State. James found out about this coaching position from the former coach Tommy Miller. James has coached at Jackson City, Breathitt High, and Wolfe County Schools in pre-vious years. He sounds very optimistic about this season when he says, “I think we’re heading in the right direction.” Some of his goals for this team are just simply, “Play hard and gain respect.” Right now he says confidence and getting that winning mentality is the most

important thing this team needs to work on. James also has some wor-ries. Like every coach there’s always worries. Most of his worries are injuries and the health of his players. James is not tackling this huge task alone though. He has an assistant coach, Brian Coleman. Brian found out about this position from a nephew who attends River-side and also plays for the Rams. Brian says, “I just want to help.” He grew up in Martin County and played basketball for Tulsa High School in West Virginia through his

Runners, set...then the whistle sounds! The runners take off with their feet hitting the ground, each one settling into his or her own best pace. For weeks they have been working to reach the peak of their performing ability. Cross county season is coming to an end. Coach Keck feels that the season has been good and he is proud of his runners with the efforts they have put forth. The Regional will be held at Jenkins on November 4. Middle School OBI RCS JBS OBI RB Brian Johnson 13:25 13:33 12:48 13:12 13:34 Tiffany Johnson 17:01 15:05 14:52 15:46 16:38 Daniel Smith N/A N/A 14:15 13:30 13:40 Bethany Butters 17:30 18:03 19:37 17:28 18:44 Erin Butters 18:14 18:08 17:19 18:05 18:48 DeeDee Noble 19:37 N/A 19:36 21:13 22:02 Patrick Haddix N/A 19:06 21:40 21:14 21:12 Aungelica Downing N/A 21:18 21:58 21:18 21:55 High School Joey Gross N/A N/A 30:59 35:11 31:30 Brandon Hudson 27:37 25:30 25:37 26:35 27:09 Beretta Roberts 30:48 29:19 30:20 29:20 27:51 Paige Sizemore 39:56 38:00 40:07 N/A 44:28 Brittany Neace 39:11 35:49 37:42 35:48 N/A David Poppy 24:16 N/A 22:59 N/A N/A

high school years. “I am excited, and I think we’re go-ing to come out and surprise a lot of people this year,” is how he sums up his thoughts on this season. Some of his goals for the team this year are to have a .500 winning season and win as many games as possible. Something he thinks the team needs to work on is being a team or as he puts it, “Being a family, which will pull the players together and improve their playing.” Coach Turner, Coach Cole-man, and the Rams are looking forward to a great and promis-ing season.

Brian Coleman and James Turner have taken over the helm

of varsity basketball.

Above: Jason Napier

Left: Grade school boys won

Booster Sportsmanship tro-

phy. Alumni Lady Rams overpowered 2006-2007 Lady Rams.

SPORTS Rams welcome new basketball coach

The middle school cross country girls team came in first

place in the Three Rivers Conference meet.

By Brandon Hudson Beacon Staff

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Harley’s, V-Star’s, and Vul-can’s… If you haven’t guessed it by now, this sounds like a bike ride. That’s just what it was. Three young men from River-side, Andy Keck, Brett Stacy, and Brandon Hudson, traveled to County Line, Indiana for a bike rally held for Riverside on Sep-tember 30. It was called “Ride for Riverside” and the proceeds were designated to help support River-side. The trio arrived at Larry Han-sen’s home in County Line Friday night. Pastor Hanson is the foun-der of this Ride and also on the Board if Directors at Riverside. They spent the night at his home “which was wonderful,” said Brandon. They were so tired and had a big day ahead. After a good night of rest, they prepared for the day ahead. They helped load some supplies that were going to be used for the picnic. Then they headed to War-

saw, Indiana where the Ride would start. After the ride got underway, the RCS trio followed Hanson’s wife, Cindy Hansen, to the campsite where lunch would be served. Then they waited for the bikers to arrive. The Ride took around 45 min-utes to an hour. Then after a deli-cious lunch, everyone just sat around a fire talking. “We had a really good time and we are very thankful for Pastor Hansen and his efforts to help Riverside. Although there were only a few bikes, we were very pleased with the outcome. Again we would like to thank the County Line Brethren Church and those who participated,” said senior Brandon Hudson. After this they headed to Andy’s grandparents, Herbert and Laverne Keck, in Teegarden, Indiana, to spend the night. Sunday morning they went to the Teegarden First Brethren Church to present their Riverside program for them. After lunch there, the trio headed back home to Kentucky.

Many of you may think that working in a place like McDonalds is an easy job. Let me inform you otherwise. This being my third week working at “Mcie D’s”, I find it’s harder than what most people would think. Seeing as you’re in a new environment, it’s really nerve wracking the first day because you have to learn everyone’s name, and they have to learn yours. You typically have three days for training, and getting to know everything you need to know about. Then they turn you loose and you’re on your own. My first week they had me “present”, which is in the drive-thru, making the drinks, and handing out the food. On Sundays, first of the month, and daily around five o’clock,

it typically gets extremely busy so you pretty much have your hands full. During my second week they put me on “front-line”, which is on drawer. To beat it all, the day I learned it was on a Sunday. So while I was taking orders I was learning how to use the computer, and where everything is on it. When you’re on front-line once you get your order taken, and get the money, you have to get the consumer’s food on top of that, which can be really confusing at times. One day last week we had a girls basketball team come in and we were worn out from it be-cause there were only two people on drawer. After that was done I decided to take my ten minute break. Right when I came back from my ten, we had a football team, cheerleaders, and their parents come in, and to beat it all, all of their food had to be put on one

order. The computer will only take 18 items max! So you can guess who took their order. If you’re thinking me, you’re right. After that night, I can tell you, without hesitation, that a big mac meal is $4.13. Now that everyone knows how hard we work maybe you will think twice before being nasty or harsh to us when you get your food, even if you get small fries instead of large fries. Remember “Thank you and have a nice day.”

Bikers ride for Riverside

The above banners were made by classes and on display in the gym for Alumni Day.

Have a nice day?

NOVEMBER CALENDAR Cross Country Regionals @ Jenkins……………………….4

ACSI Teachers Convention…………...…………………8-10

Jr. High Boys vs Jackson City…...………………………...13

Jr High Girls vs Wolfe County...………...………………...14

Elem. Girls and Jr High Boys vs Wolfe County……….....16

Jr High Girls vs Jackson City...…………………………...17

High School Cheerleaders Bake Sale @ Walmart………..18

Jr High or Elem. vs Lost Creek…………………... ……..20

Thanksgiving Dinner and Program…………...…………..21

Thanksgiving Break…………………………………….22-24

Jr High Boys vs Lost Creek………………………………..25

Varsity Boys vs OBI……………………………………… .27

Varsity Boys vs OBI………………………………………..30

By Brandon Hudson Beacon Staff

By Jessi Lovins Beacon Staff