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Richmond Hill schools win $10,000 in grants from Century Link
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Teacher Annmarie Crawford with her class after learning Dr. George Washington Carver Elementary School in Richmond Hill was awarded $2000 to purchase 10 Kindle Fires, which will allow special-needs students who are reading below grade level a chance to read appropriate material discretely while getting the practice - photo by Jeff Whitte
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Bryan County News
Updated: May 7, 2014, 5:53 PM
Published: May 7, 2014, 5:55 PM

CenturyLink today announced the three Richmond Hill-area winners of the CenturyLink Clarke M. Williams Foundation’s Teachers and Technology grant program. The program, which has been offered since 2008, awards grants to schools in CenturyLink’s local service areas on behalf of teachers who have developed specific plans to innovatively implement technology in their classroom.

 

“We are very pleased to be a part of providing innovative technology in the classroom that enhances the learning experience for students in these schools,” said Durand Standard, CenturyLink vice president and general manager forSouth CarolinaandGeorgia. “It is exciting to see teachers implement creative teaching techniques that assist students in hands-on learning.”

 

Nine teachers applied for grants, with three winners selected by a review committee comprised of community members and a CenturyLink representative. The winning teachers’ schools each received a grant to be used by the teachers to purchase technology to benefit students in the classroom:

 

Richmond HillHigh School was awarded $4,800 to purchase iPads, MacBooks and Inventory tracking software. This technology will be used to develop a business plan to successfully open and run a functional school-based store, which will not only benefit those in the small-business program, but all students atRichmond HillHigh School. Assistant Principal Bivins Miller submitted the project.Dr. George Washington Carver Elementary School inRichmond Hill was awarded $2000 to purchase 10 Kindle Fires, which will allow special-needs students who are reading below grade level a chance to read appropriate material discretely while getting the practice they need to grow as a reader. Teacher Annmarie Crawford submitted the project.Richmond HillMiddle Schoolwas awarded $3000 for an expansion of technology to their Broadcast and Film Department. Previously, equipment has been limited and now they will no longer have to share cameras in the classroom. Teacher Christy White submitted the project.

 

 

About CenturyLink

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Ted O'Neil
Updated: May 23, 2018, 6:03 PM
Published: May 23, 2018, 6:05 PM

This is among the last pieces I’ll ever write for the Bryan County News.

Friday is my last day with the paper, and come June 1 I’m headed back to my native Michigan.

I moved here in 2015 from the Great Lake State due to my wife’s job. It’s amicable, but she has since moved on to a different life in a different state, and it’s time for me to do the same.

My son Thomas, an RHHS grad as of Saturday, also is headed back to Michigan to play basketball for a small school near Ann Arbor called Concordia University. My daughter, Erin, is in law school at University of Toledo. She had already begun her college volleyball career at Lourdes University in Ohio when we moved down here and had no desire to leave the Midwest.

With both of them and the rest of my family up north, there’s no reason for me to stay here. I haven’t missed winter one bit, but I’m sure I won’t miss the sand gnats, either.

Shortly after we arrived here in 2015, I got a job in communications with a certain art school in Savannah for a few short months. It was both personally and professionally toxic and I’ll leave it at that.

In March 2016 I signed on with the Bryan County News as assistant editor and I’ve loved every minute of it. My “first” newspaper career, in the late 80s and early 90s, was great. But when I left it to work in politics and later with a free-market think tank, I never pictured myself as an ink-stained wretch again.

Like they say, never say never.

During my time here at the News, I’ve covered everything that came along. That’s one big difference between working for a weekly as opposed to a daily paper. Reporters at a daily paper have a “beat” to cover. At a weekly paper like this, you cover … life. Sports, features, government meetings, crime, fundraisers, parades, festivals, successes, failures and everything in between. Oh, and hurricanes. Two of them. I’ll take a winter blizzard over that any day.

Along the way I’ve met a lot of great people. Volunteers, business owners, pastors, students, athletes, teachers, coaches, co-workers, first responders, veterans, soldiers and yes, even some politicians.

And I learned that the same adrenalin rush from covering “breaking news” that I experienced right out of college is still just as exciting nearly 30 years later.

With as much as I’ve written about the population increase and traffic problems, at least for a few short minutes my departure means there will be one less vehicle clogging up local roads. At least until I pass three or four moving vans headed this way as I get on northbound I-95.

The hub-bub over growth here can be humorous, unintentional and ironic all at once. We often get comments on our Facebook page that go something like this: “I’ve lived here for (usually less than five years) and the growth is out of control! We need a moratorium on new construction.”

It’s like people who move into phase I of “Walden Woods” subdivision after all the trees are cleared out and then complain about trees being cut down for phase II.

Bryan County will always hold a special place in my heart and I definitely plan on visiting again someday. My hope is that my boss, Jeff Whitten (one of the best I’ve ever had), will let me continue to be part of the Pembroke Mafia Football League from afar. If the Corleone family could expand to Vegas, there’s no reason the PMFL can’t expand to Michigan.

But the main reason I want to return someday is about that traffic issue. After all, I’ll need to see it with my own eyes before I’ll believe that Highway 144 actually got widened.

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