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 Members of the Wapakoneta Middle School Student Council pose for photo outside the classroom earlier this year. To date, the group has raised nearly $2,300 in which they have donated to various local and area organizations throughout the 2009-2010 school year. Photo provided By KRISTA HAYES
Staff Writer
With the end of the school year nearing, Wapakoneta Middle School Student Council members are hoping to end their term on a positive note.
During the school year, the school government raised nearly $2,300 for various local and area organizations.
“Each year, we try and raise as much money as we can for various clubs and organizations that we vote on and decide to help support at the beginning of the school year,” Wapakoneta Middle School Student Council President Neal Maxson said.
Elected a Student Council representative of his homeroom, Maxson, a seventh-grade student, said this is his second year serving on the council. This year as president, his main responsibility is to set forth an agenda and preside over the group’s monthly meetings which are held the first and third Thursday of each month.
“I joined the Student Council because I was looking for a new activity to do and thought it’d be challenging experience,” Maxson said. “Politics have always been one of the things to stick out in my head and when I grow up, I want to be a lawyer.
“Overall, as president I think I have done a pretty good job,” he said. “Being president is a lot harder than what I thought it would be since I have to make the agendas, run the meetings, and keep the advisers in the loop. I have the whole weight of the council on my shoulders, and at times it can get frustrating, but I would recommend it to all the kids coming to the middle school next year because it’s a fun activity to be involved in.”
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Traffic mishaps low this holiday |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
By KAREN CAMPBELL
Staff Writer
Traffic-related problems locally were reportedly fewer than a normal holiday weekend, a sergeant with the Wapakoneta Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol says.
Sgt. Tom Brookhart said overall there were no unusual problems, no fatalities and no serious injuries.
“We had a lot of traffic Wednesday night and Sunday night, but we had good weather most of the weekend so it was pretty uneventful,” Brookhart told the Wapakoneta Daily News Monday.
Overall during the Thanksgiving weekend, which extends from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday, troopers from the Wapakoneta Post handled 17 crashes, only two of which involved people suffering injuries, Brookhart.
Most of the crashes involved deer, he said, as has been the case for most of the crashes that troopers have handled in the last several weeks.
Of the 342 stops troopers made, they arrested four motorists for operating vehicles while under the influence of drugs or alcohol (OVI), issued 37 citations for aggressive driving violations (including most which were driving 20 miles per hour or more over the posted speed limit), issued 34 seatbelt citations and gave 139 warnings.
“It was pretty close to a normal weekend,” Brookhart said. “For a holiday weekend, it was pretty low.”
Eleven traffic fatalities on Ohio roads during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend marked the safest Thanksgiving weekend across the state since 2001, when there were 10 fatalities, the Ohio State Highway Patrol reported Monday.
Last year there were 17 traffic deaths during the same holiday period.
The 11 fatalities this year all occurred in separate crashes.
Of those killed, three were not wearing seatbelts. One was a pedestrian.
Eight additional passengers and motorists were injured in crashes across the state.
As part of enforcement and motorist safety efforts, troopers arrested more than 500 motorists for operating motor vehicles while under the influence of drugs or alcohol (OVI) and assisted more than 3,740 motorists during the holiday weekend.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 03 December 2008 )
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