{"id":490,"date":"2005-09-27T09:32:25","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T09:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=350"},"modified":"2005-09-27T09:32:25","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T09:32:25","slug":"92505","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"9\/25\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"

We traveled to Xenia, Ohio where I interviewed Tom Griffis who helps co-ordinate Habitat for Humanity projects here. He told me one of the Habitat house initiatives in Xenia the year before pulled together 12 churches to help. Besides making for the building of a quality house, this kind of church cooperative is excellent at getting dialogue going between people who wouldn’t ordinarily mix… In Xenia, I also interviewed Mary Howell who is the Secretary for St. Brigid’s “Partners in Education.” Parents involved with Partners in Education do creative fundraisers to help subsidize the cost of St. Brigid School field trips, new lockers, a track program, balls for the playground. In addition, Ms. Howell told me the school also has a seperate fund specifically designated for students needing help paying for tuition, for uniforms, and so on. Note:<\/strong> Several years ago, I gave a talk to an Education class at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. While at the class, I also learned about an alternative high school program in Rhode Island that included “teams” that would form around each student. The team would include parents, the school counselor, a teacher, a business person from the community in a field the student may be interested in, a neighbor… The team would meet each month to talk about the student’s progress, strategize about goal planning, and so on. Not only does the student get a tremendous amount of support, but this team concept helps get other people who might not necessarily be that interested in the town school system, interested. Everybody wins. Note 2:<\/strong> I threw out the first pitch at a St. Brigid Church picnic kickball game today — and one of the youth ‘kicked’ it for a home run. (I’ve yet to master ‘rolling’ a good curve ball.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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