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Meadows students making a difference


Meadows Elementary has proudly established a chapter in the Elementary National Honors Society. ENHS members have attained not only academic achievement, but excellence in areas such as scholarship and responsibility. Third and fourth grade students complete an application process and are selected be a membership committee. The students take seriously the responsibility of modeling for our school community the outstanding leadership qualities necessary for responsible citizens. Even at the elementary level, the importance of community service is stressed, and monthly meetings are scheduled to plan future projects and to follow up on existing service projects.

As part of the service learning requirement for The National Honor Society for the 2009-2010 school year, fourth and fifth grade members have been working vigorously to help lead the corporation-wide initiative of recycling in our building. Each class has been a part of a presentation given by the ENHS members, and students are now implementing this program in each of their classrooms daily. We are currently keeping a running tally of how many recycling containers we can fill throughout the year. We want the students to be able to visualize what they have accomplished, and recognize that their efforts are making a difference for the environment.

Meadows students and staff would like to thank Republic Service Inc. for their donation of the recycling containers that are stationed in each of our hallways and for transporting the recycled materials to the local recycling center. In addition, we would like to recognize the Vigo County School Corp. and the leadership of Superintendent Daniel Tanoos for making recycling a top priority for service learning. Through our school-wide recycling program, we are instilling within each student the necessary foundation to be a responsible citizen both at school as well as within the community. By becoming advocates for a cleaner environment, we will hopefully guide our Meadows Family to help make the Earth a more “Green” place to live.

— Suzanne Marrs

Administrative Intern

Meadows Elementary



Health care reform about survival, not handouts


This country is reeling. Not from liberalism or conservatism, it is reeling from stupidityism and greedism.

We Americans have deregulated and allowed excesses in all of the principle avenues of a free, prosperous and healthy society. The greedy have seized the opportunity under the assumed identity of free market capitalism.

One of the victims has been health care for many who need it but don’t have it and can’t get it.

Tort reform, insurance reform and health care reform all go hand in hand. They are all needed to accomplish affordable, humane delivery of health care.

This very day I saw the elderly, dehydrated and in need of medical care standing in line at a soup kitchen. I saw this in Terre Haute. It was not someone seeking something for nothing. It was someone with nothing, trying to survive.

I heard of those on Medicaid that didn’t have the 50 cents to pay for their prescriptions. And I was reminded of the child whose insurance claim was denied because the insurance company didn’t want to pay a claim. It is pretty hard to prove that a a condition is not a precondition, but who is making the insurance company prove that it is?

Humanity deserves human treatment. Poor health cost America in many ways, more than money. But good health is the humane way to minimize that cost.

Write your Congressman and Senators and tell them to “get it right” and get it now.

It takes tort reform and insurance reform to get healthcare that will be for everyone.

Let’s work together to make America a more humane place for all.

— Bob Tryon

Terre Haute



Time to think about tort reform


A judge in Indy gave a 31-year-old male life without parole for murdering three children and four adults during a home robbery three years ago. The man waived his right to a jury trial in exchange for not getting the death penalty. He killed seven innocents and he didn’t want to die! The youngest child was 5 years old.

According to answer.google.com, it costs $58.50 per day to house a federal prisoner. Life expectancy for a white male is 78 years, so in 47 years, it will cost the taxpayer in daily charges alone (not including health care or cost-of-living increases ) a minimum of $1,003,567 if he lives to 78 years!

Also, in that 47 years, he will probably file several appeals that taxpayers will pay for. Ever wonder why this country is going broke?

It was recently stated that it is cheaper to keep a prisoner in jail for life than go through the appeals process for the death penalty! At $1 million, I would think we could find lawyers who charge a lot less. It looks like the lawyers have set themselves up for employment for life.

In the yellow pages of the Terre Haute phone book, there are 27 pages representing lawyers. A necessary evil? Is it time the government looked into tort reform? No wonder we keep building prisons.

— Fred Roberts

Terre Haute

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