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In special ceremonies held Saturday morning, 10 people were inducted into the Seminole High School Hall of Fame. This year’s inductees include Pam Fletcher, Shannon Grimes, Jason Lytle, Kim Babb, Leslie Daugherty, Brandi Strayhorn, Amy Goosetree, Ashley Noey, Brian Geist and Brandon Coates. Their bios appear below.
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Above, kids decorated their bicycles and took part in Friday afternoon’s Homecoming Parade in downtown Seminole. More homecoming festivities, including the coronation of this year’s queen, took place prior to the Chieftain’s game against Stigler. —Staff Photo by Ken Childers
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Most people are familiar with “Tiger King,” the Netflix documentary series featuring an eccentric character sporting a blonde mullet who calls himself Joe Exotic. The series ended with Exotic being sentenced to twenty-two years in prison. Seminole County author Kevin Wieck has just released a new book that begins where the series left off, as Joe Exotic is booked into the Grady County jail.
Read moreThe Zeta Epsilon Chapter of ESA held its September meeting on September 7 at the home of Debbie Lyon. Members visited during a meal of chicken salad, fruit chips and desserts provided by the hostess and her two co-hostesses Vicki White and Jan Whitehead.
Read moreWomen On Mission met Sept. 23 at Brooke Brumley’s home.
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Throughout the 1980s, faculty, staff and students at then Seminole “Junior” College participated in an annual spring ritual known as “Trojan Olympics.” Held the week prior to final exams, teams competed in such activities as tricycle races in the parking lots, food eating contests and canoe races on the campus pond. Top photo: Former counselor Cynthia Yerby looks on as longtime business instructor Fred Bunyan tries to break a balloon during his Trojan Olympics contest. Middle: After an unsuccessful canoe race, former business office cashier Carolyn Simmons surfaces from the campus pond. Left: Former speech instructor Marie Dawson races to the finish line during the tricycle races.
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As I was trying to take an afternoon nap, I began thinking about the way some people are causing havoc in our world; however, I did what I’ve trained myself to do when I am tempted to worry. I switched my thoughts to He who made the world. I turned my thoughts upward. And then a strange thing happened: words from an old song I hadn’t thought of in about 40 years came to me. It amazed me how things come back to us from so long ago.
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