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Centralia FFA helps celebrate Valentine’s Day with strawberries
Things have been sweet at Centralia High School.And strawberry-flavored, with hints of chocolate and vanilla.Once again the Centralia FFA Chapter was holding its annual chocolate-covered strawberry fundraiser.Centralia High School FFA advisor Scott Stone discussed the 10-plus year old event.First he addressed the benefits to the students, what they learn.“They learn about food preservation, And my…
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Robin Writes: February Promis2
By Robin Garrison Leach February is a tough month. Its days of lengthening sunlight hold little of interest to see. The ground is alternately hard as granite and sloppy with murky mud. Trees are still on strike, picketing the last days of winter with colorless, brittle limbs. Browns and grays coat the world in fatigue. And…
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Alden sees challenges in college sports’ future
There have been a lot of changes in college sports, and more are coming.That was what Mike Alden had to say to an audience of 13 Centralia Rotarians the afternoon of February 11 at the Centralia Pizza Hut.Alden was the University of Missouri’s the University of Missouri’s athletics director from 1998 though 2015. He has…