Paula Ellis has seen three decades of school change
Nobody has been a member of the Shelton Board of Education as long as Paula Ellis.
Since she was first elected in 1979, she has served 24 years on the school board — except for a six-year break when she didn’t run — and was just re-elected this year.
During that time, Ellis served three terms as Board of Education chairman and participated in many of the decisions that faced the school board over the past three decades, including the introduction of computer technology and the Back to Basics movement.
“When I first went on the board I was 26,” Ellis said.Huntington Local News
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In the Catbird Seat
If or when the world finally ends, expect the cataclysm to arrive with a sense of déjà vu.
We have seen the ultimate catastrophe happen over and over again on the silver screen, and last weekend yet another planet-chomping film arrived in theaters, Roland Emmerich’s “2012,” to dazzle us with extravagant mayhem we never thought we’d see, or survive.
Supposedly, as New Age hucksters tell us, the ancient Mayan calendar comes to an end on Dec. 21, 2012, foretelling a worldwide catastrophe that will hit on that date. If it doesn’t kill you, you’ll wish it did.
Emmerich doesn’t make much of this in his flick, however. It is mentioned in passing, but the real purpose of the film is to display computer-generated special effects, not to promote some knuckleheads’ hoary, pseudo-religious end-of-the-world nonsense.
And that is all for the best, since nobody is more embarrassed by the Mayan calendar story than the poor Maya, down in old Yucatan.Home of the Month
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