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Volume 151, No. 14 - Princeton, MO 64673
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Smithfield donates $6,000 to Princeton FFA trapshooting team
R-5 board meets, OKs resignations Math teacher retiring, Title I teacher resigns. Princeton board hires math teacher. Softball/girls basketball coach also leaving positions PRESTON COLE Editor, Princeton Post-Telegraph
PRINCETON Four personnel decisions were announced Friday morning (March 31), after the Princeton R-5 Board of Education held a special closed session the previous evening. Two of the decisions were intertwined. The board accepted the retirement notice of secondary (grades 7-12) mathematics teacher Krista Snow, who taught at Mercer for many years before moving to Prince-
ton. Rebecca Bickel was hired as Snow’s replacement. The board also approved the resignation of Title I teacher Danessa Stout. Finally, the resignation of Steve “Butch” Richman as high school softball and girls basketball coach was submitted and approved. Richman led those programs the past two seasons, leading the softball Tigers to the most recent two of their school-record four consecutive district championships. His Princeton softball teams had a combined record of 2922, while Tiger girls basketball had a combined record of 3321.
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Smithfield Hog Production recently donated $6,000 to the Princeton High School FFA chapter’s trapshooting team. Funds were used to pay for targets and ammunition for the shooters. Blake Boxley (left, holding check) presented the ceremonial check to Princeton FFA advisor Kurt Meighen. Team members, from left: SECOND ROW - Cooper Boxley, Roman Birge, Ryder Allen, Tyler Coffman and John Schreffler; THIRD ROW - Clay Evans, Lauren Cunningham, Hannah Meighen, Addy Henke, Emily Oswalt and Evan Houck; TOP ROW Talan Holt, Jay Allen, Gavin Power and Landon Krohn.
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Veterans home to rename military library in Bill Pollard’s memory Local premiere of the movie A Promise to Our Fathers to be part of Thursday, April 13 event Special to the Princeton Post-Telegraph
CAMERON The Missouri Veterans Home of Cameron will rename and dedicate its military library in honor of a former resident - and former Princeton resident Bill Pollard - next week. The event will be held on what would’ve been Pollard’s 100th birthday - Thursday, April 13. The ceremony will begin at 2 p.m. at the home, which is located at 1111 Euclid Avenue. In a release, the home described the library as “our new and improved mil-
itary library,” and invited the public to attend the renaming and dedication ceremony for the man who was called “the inspiration and driving force behind the development of our military history library.” There will also be a local premiere of the movie A Promise to Our Fathers, a Locust Street Films production that was made by Bill Pollard’s son Larry, and the sons of Holocaust survivors Abe and Helen Greenberg. Bill Pollard, an Army medic, was among the first group of American soldiers who liberated the notorious Auschwitz prison camp at the end of World War II.
Special to the Post-Telegraph
Bill Pollard Cameron’s Missouri Veterans Home to rename, dedicate military library in his memory.
PRINCETON Serve Mercer County, an established 501(c)(3), invites all neighbors that want to help neighbors with the opportunity to serve on Saturday, April 22 with a rain date of Saturday, April 29. Civic groups and school groups of all ages are encouraged to participate. Register online by Friday, April 14 at www. servemercercounty.com. Meet at the Mercer County Senior Center in Princeton at 8:30 a.m., then work will be done
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