Published: October 27, 2009 07:59 pm         

Education Briefly: Oct. 28, 2009

Marshall, Ind.

Author to speak on parenting, students

Sylvia Rimm, psychologist and author, will be speaking to parents and guests at 6 p.m. on Monday in the Turkey Run High School ELC Room.

Rimm is the director of the Family Achievement Clinic in Cleveland and has written many books about students and parenting. For the past nine years, she has been a contributing correspondent to NBC’s “Today Show.” Her topic, “Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades,” corresponds with the book that she has written.

Issues that she will address are “My child does not bring home homework or leaves the book at school;” “My child tells me that they have homework at bedtime;” “My child does not turn in work;” and “My child could be doing better, but is unorganized.”

All area parents and teachers are invited to attend this event.

Marshall, Ind.

Trick-or-treat

for canned goods

The Turkey Run FFA chapter will be collecting canned goods to donate to the local food pantry on the night of Halloween (Saturday). Donate extra canned goods to members of the FFA collecting in the towns of Bloomingdale, Rockville, Marshall and Waveland.

Terre Haute

Deadline to apply for scholarship Dec. 15

The deadline to submit an application for one of the more than 100 scholarships the Wabash Valley Community Foundation will hand out this year is approaching.

Students have until Dec. 15 to submit an application, which is now available to print from the Foundation’s Web site, www.wvcf.com.

Contact the Community Foundation office at (812) 232-2234 or toll-free at 1-877-232-2230 for more information.

Parke County

Teaching assistant receives award

Riverton Parke Jr.-Sr. High School teaching assistant Donna Hardesty has been named the Employee Recognition Award winner for the month of September by the Southwest Parke School Corporation. Hardesty teaches writing, sustained reading, career exploration and basic life skills at Riverton Parke.

Of the award, Hardesty says, “I would like to thank the staff for nominating me for the ERA. I’m very thankful to be working with such an outstanding group of educators.”

Hardesty is married to her husband Mike, music director at the school, and has four sons: Jesse, Andrew, Thomas and Daniel. She is a graduate of Rosedale High School and St. Mary-of-the-Woods College. She has attended Indiana State University to do graduate work in educational psychology and English education. She obtained a master’s degree in ministry leadership from Indiana Wesleyan in 2008.

Terre Haute

Panel OKs $2.3M

for ISU projects

State Rep. Clyde Kersey (D-Terre Haute) said the State Budget Committee on Friday approved $2,335,990 in funding for two projects on the Indiana State University campus in Terre Haute.

During its meeting on the Indiana University Bloomington campus, the committee agreed to allow ISU to spend $1,755,000 for the replacement of air handling units and temperature controls in the oldest section of the Health and Human Services Building. In addition, the committee granted its approval for the expenditure of $580,990 to replace Holmstedt Hall Plaza and the walkways next to it.

“Both projects are definitely needed,” Kersey said. “The air handling units in the Health and Human Services Building are old and the renovation will replace them with high-efficiency units that not only will make the building more comfortable, but also will save on long-term energy costs.

“The concrete plaza and walkway was built 43 years ago,” explained Kersey, “so there are broken sections and, of course, it has settled over the years. That creates a bit of safety hazard for those who walk on it, especially at night, so the project will restore the plaza and walkway as well as perhaps prevent a few sprained and twisted ankles.”