EDUCATION NOTES
Learning in a technological world
GINNY SHAW
     Our children were born into a quite different world than the one you and I grew up in. Today's computer game technology, interactive TV and iPods give teachers a tough act to follow.
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Port Aransas School Menus
Oct. 9 - Oct. 13
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Sprucing up
     A joint effort by H.G. Olsen Elementary School students and members of the Port Aransas Garden Club provided a much needed make-over for the reading garden at the school. Seven students and 10 Garden Club members worked together on the venture spearheaded by teacher Julie Findley Saturday, Sept. 30.
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Rockin' and readin'
     Sabrina Grubbs reads to her daughter, 5-year-old Hannah Grubbs, in Hannah's kindergarten classroom during open house at H.G. Olsen Elementary School.
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LONGEST DAYS, SHORTEST YEARS
After twins, nothing is 'normal'
KATE WILLIAMS
     The twins are turning 6. It doesn't seem possible. I woke them up for school on the day before their birthday. "One more day until my birthday!" they both announced.
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Longanecker earns masters at WTAMU
     Kristi R. Longanecker of Port Aransas earned a master of education degree in administration from West Texas A&M University in Canyon.
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Windmillers
     H.G. Olsen Elementary fifth-graders (from left) Christopher Wright, Justin Kahn, Morgan Milligan and Christopher Vasquez prepare to remove a lawn full of paper windmills from the school on Wednesday, Sept. 27. Students made the windmills and placed them in the yard as a peace symbol; Wright, Kahn, M
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Spirit dinner planned at pavilion
     The Port Aransas Marlins Athletic Booster Club will hold its fall Spirit Dinner at the Roberts Point Park pavilion on Monday, Oct. 16.
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Net result: Kids 'dig' wetlands
BY DAN PARKER SOUTH JETTY REPORTER
     A kid knows he has lucked into a pretty cool school assignment when it means splashing around in the mud and catching tadpoles.
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