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Education

  • Kaskaskia College sets Honors Program deadline for spring

    Kaskaskia College announces that Dec. 15 is the deadline for students to apply for the spring 2013 Honors Program.
    This program recognizes students who have demonstrated, or who evidence the potential for, consistent academic excellence.
    The mission of the program is to challenge students to think, to analyze, to investigate and to discover by stimulating them to achieve beyond the usual academic requirements. The program will develop exceptional talent and ability in highly motivated students.

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  • School Briefs

    ROE offices closed Nov. 29

    The Regional Office of Education offices in Bond, Fayette and Effingham counties will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 29, for certification/licensure training.
    The offices will re-open at 8 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 30.

    Food sanitation refresher
    Kaskaskia College will offer a food service sanitation refresher class at the Vandalia Campus on Saturday, Dec. 1, from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

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  • Fall, summer nursing classes taken at KC

    Two sections of certified nursing assistant students took the eight-week classes of the program this past summer and fall at the Kaskaskia College Vandalia Center.

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  • Family Reading Night at VES

    Vandalia Elementary School observed national Family Reading Night on Thursday by inviting parents to the school.

    In the first photo, Brianna Springman and her mother, Angie, go through a book and computer exercise. In the second photo, Delaney Kopp and her mother, Angel, do the same. The evening also included a book fair (third photo) and a visit by Linda Kelly and participants in the P.A.C.K. (Pups Assisting Children with Kindness) program at Evans Public Library in Vandalia.

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  • Kaskaskia College

    Larson graduates from truck driving program

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  • Menus

    Vandalia
    Grades K-8
    Breakfast
    Monday, Nov. 26 – Cereal, toast, juice and milk.
    Tuesday, Nov. 27 – Pancakes, sausage links, juice and milk.
    Wednesday, Nov. 28 – Doughnut, cereal, fruit and milk.
    Thursday, Nov. 29 – Bacon, egg and cheese biscuit, juice and milk.
    Friday, Nov. 30 – Cereal, toast, fruit and milk.
    Lunch
    Monday, Nov. 26 – Hot dog on bun, nachos with cheese, baked beans, fruit cocktail and milk. Junior high – Bratwurst.

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  • Honor Roll

    Vandalia Christian Academy
    Perfect Spellers
    Second grade-Faith Budny, Ashtyn Ferguson and Braden McDonald.
    Third grade-Abigail Durbin and Andrew Myers.
    Fourth grade-Trista Smith-Stone.
    Perfect Attendance
    Kindergarten-Gwen Ellis, Kolton Harris, Madison Lotz and Olivia Philbrick.
    First grade-Tyson Lewis.
    Second grade-Gabe Ellis.
    Third grade-Billye Maegyn Worker and Kaleb Cook.
    Fourth grade-Kali Bruno.
    Sixth grade-Kayleigh Ellis.
    Seventh grade-Nathaniel Weaver.
    A Honor Roll

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  • MG Elementary teachers receive reward cards from Walmart

    Walmart this fall awarded 20 Mulberry Grove Elementary teachers with $50 reward cards to purchase classroom supplies to help students start the school year off right.

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  • BHS chorus salutes veterans
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  • Romney-289 Obama-109

    While adults in Vandalia were going to the polls last Tuesday for their part in electing this country’s president, students at Vandalia Junior High School were also casting ballots.

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