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she was very involved with her
school and community. She’s
a kind, fun girl,” Marissa said.
Tapp said that Sara is con-
siderate, honest, kind, has a
good sense of humor and is an
all-around “delightful gir .”
“I can’t say enough nice,
loving things about the child,”
Tapp said. “She’s just a loving
girl and a lot of fun.”
Sara Said that‘she loves the
rodeo lifestyle not only because
is it something she’s grown
up with but also because she
enjoys being around the people.
“Rodeo people really are
the best kind of people,” Sara
said.
As Sara closes this chapter
of high school and rodeo and
moves on to college, she will
be studying elementary educa-
tion and agricultural business,
according to Marissa.
“I see her being a great
teacher. I hope she learned to
be kind and always help people
in need,” Marissa said. >
Tapp said that she believes
Sara will be successful in
college. But, she said, she will
miss her while she’s gone.
“I’m going to miss her a
bit,” Tapp said.
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Submitted photo
Here, Sara Sweet stands proudly next to the saddle she won
at the 2012 Weston County Junior Rodeo, where she won All
Around Jr. Cowgirl.
Even though Sara said younger competitors is to “just winning but the
friends and
she won’t continue to rodeo have fun.”
in college, her advice to the
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during the school year, and now they send
out 100 bags of food twice a week on Tuesdays
and Fridays.
“We have so many more kids in need,”
Vickch said. .
The money from the church will help to
buy more food, including fruits and vegetables,
to reduce child hunger in Newcastle, and is
distributed from the school buses on the normal
bus routes.
The idea behind Totes of Hope was sparked
in Vickers when she noticed students arriving
hungry at school on Monday.
“That shouldn’t happen in our community,”
Vickers said.
So, after doing some research, Vickers and Sue
Simon started Totes of Hope in Weston County
many years ago and have been doing it ever since.
“The community has been so generous fimding
and keeping it going,” Vickers said. “It’s really
awesome to help.”
Sheila Gregory took a hit to her business
when COVID-l9 affected the economy, and even
though she remained open, business was skeletal,
and she still had to pay wages to her employees.
“My day care went fi‘om 14 kids to four,”
Gregory said.
She only had four essential workers who used
her services from March 17 to May 1, she said,
and she’s not sure what she would have done
without them. With the donation fi‘om the church,
as well as some teachers who continued to pay
her even though they worked from home, Gregory
memorks you make while
“It’s not all about the doing it,” she said.
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was able to keep her doors open. .
“They’ll never know how much I appreciate
it,” Gregory said. 1
She’s been in the business for over 30 years,
and if teachers don’t return to school in August,
she’s not sure if she can survive the year, so she’s
hoping school will open.
Half of the money will be used to pay off back
payments fiom lost income, and the other money
will be used to buy more sand for the 24-by-
24-foot sandbox in Gregory’s outdoor play area.
She said she doesn’t have good surfacing, and
every year, more sand is needed.
Gregory laughed.
“I don’t know if the kids put sand in their
pockets or what,” she said.
Jennifer Smith, of Itty’rBitty Child Care, said
that she will use half the money for a privacy fence
in her yard and the rest for monthly expenses she
had during quarantine since she was “ordered to
close other than to essential workers.” Although
she was available to essential workers, most of
the parents worked at home, but now Smith has
opened her business again.
“I am open again at full capacity, with special
health precautions being practiced,” Smith said.
“(1) am extremely grateful.”
As Newcastle continues to battle the economic
effects of COVID-l9, the Christ Episcopal Church
is doing its part to help the community.
“We’re just really happy we can help
the community during this difficult time,”
Hutchinson said.
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and then, as now, We demand
more. This country has always
stood for freedom, indepen-
' dence, strength, resilience,
resolve and compassion.
Do those ideals that the
founding fathers stood for in
the 18th century look the same
as they do now? Of course not,
and I am grateful that we have
progressed since then.
A line was repeated in the
show and the truth of it still
rings true: “History has its
eyes on you.”
As we broke free from
Britain in 1776, the world
was watching. As we navigate
through our current civil
rights movement, the world
is watching — so we need
to realize the weight that is
upon our shoulders, just as our
Founding Fathers understood
the responsibility they were
undertaking.
Imagine, if you can, how
heavy of a burden these men
must have felt!
“If we lay enough of a
strong foundation for you
My son it’s up to you to take
this further.”
“I’ll make the world
safe and sound for you
Someday, you’ll blow us all
away.”
Line after line in the show
brought me to tears because of
how incredible it is that these
men were able to have the
foresight to establish a country
with individual freedoms as
yet unknown in the world.
And as I wondered at their
vision, prudence and vigilance
in establishing this forward-
thinking nation, I connected
with the responsibility we are
tasked with right now to fulfill
the vision of the United States
in 2020.
The fireworks display
over the presidents on Mt.
Rushmore illuminated very
clearly the contributions those
four made to our history,
and it also brought to mind
another line from “Hamilton,”
“Winning the war was easy,
governing is harder.”
Every one of the men on
this monument were faced
with an unimaginable chal—
lenge and each one was revo-
lutionary and so far ahead of
their time.
George Washington took
on the immense responsibility
of being our first president.
He was delivered the oppor-
tunity to become a dictator
on a silver platter, however
he chose to set the example
of what a democracy was all
about by refusing to run for
a third term, which he would
have won without a doubt.
Thomas Jefferson fought
tooth and nail for the rights of
the individual and for ensuring
that our government was the
agent of the people, and not a
despot over the people. He did
so by championing the inclu-
sion of the Bill of Rights in
our Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln spent
his entire presidency trying to
preserve the Union and is the
reason for the emancipation
of the slaves and the passage
of the 13th Amendment
banning slavery in the United
States forever.
Theodore Roosevelt
recognized the necessity of
conservation and preserving
our environment and he fought
to maintain a free market in .
our economy by championing
the dissolution of trusts and
banning monopolies.
By today’s standards, were
any of these men perfect in
their personal lives or did they
embody the ideals of let
century political correctness?
Absolutely not, however I
would pose the question that,
what human could be?
And more importantly,
without them, where would
this country be? Because of
them, we have the right to
question the government they
established.
The big idea I took from
watching “Hamilton” in this
critical time in history is that
we are now thrust into another
time of revolution in which we
have to take great care in the
decisions we make. Another
idea that really hit home is that
in times like these, “dying is
easy, living is harder” and that
once again, history has its eyes
on us, and we must be better.