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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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Armstrong artwork returned |
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Friday, 09 January 2009 |
By MATT NICHOLS
Staff Writer
More than a week after three portraits depicting Neil Armstrong were stolen from the Wapakoneta Post Office, the trio of artistic pieces have found their way back home.
Employees noticed the prints of pencil drawings created by the late Richard Chadwick, a Wapakoneta native, missing from the walls by employees on Monday.
After recovering the drawings, Wapakoneta Police Chief Dave Webb returned the artwork to the post office on Wednesday.
“We’re just glad to have them back,” Postmaster Jennifer Shoupp said. “They certainly meant a lot to the people who would come in and look at them. We’re glad they’ve been returned.”
Also returned to the post office was the child-sized white rocking chair that was also stolen from the post office lobby.
Webb said he could not divulge much information into the burglary or recovery, only saying there is an out-of-town man in custody with charges not related to the post office theft.
A search warrant was issued by the Auglaize County Prosecutor’s Office at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday for the theft case, the chief said.
Shortly before 9:20 a.m. Wednesday, the warrant was executed at 1308 Willipie St., the city’s impound lot, according to the Wapakoneta Police Office call log.
At 10:25 a.m. the pictures were collected and at 11:40 a.m. a representative of the post office arrived at the Wapakoneta Police Department to pick them up.
One of the returned drawings is a 24- by 36-inch portrait of Armstrong in his Apollo 11 space suit. The other two drawings are 8- by 10-inch sketches of Armstrong and his family and Armstrong during a NASA mission prior to his moon landing.
Richard Chadwick’s wife, Cindy, said her husband began working on the large portrait as Armstrong departed for the moon in July 1969. She said he had the artwork finished in time for Armstrong’s splash-down.
Chadwick said she was thrilled to know her late husband’s work is back for all the community to see.
“I’m happy of course, and it shows that Wapak still thinks a lot of Neil Armstrong,” Chadwick said. “It’s also is great to know my husband will be remembered as a great artist. He had art hanging all over the world, and it makes me feel wonderful to know his work is here for everyone to see.”
Assistant Managing Editor Karen Campbell contributed to this story.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 09 January 2009 )
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