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Habitat demo day is Saturday
Escambia County Habitat for Humanity will hold what they hope will be their final demolition day for the East Craig Street home renovation. The demolition was partially completed last month with the help of APSO (Alabama Power Service Organization) volunteers. “We are very happy with the work already done,” said Lisa Tindell, executive director for ECHFH. “However, we still have a long way to go to be ready for the…
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Join the Arbor Day Foundation in September – Receive 10 free trees
Everyone who joins the Arbor Day Foundation in September will receive 10 free trees as part of the Foundation’s Trees for America program. Through Trees for America, everyone is encouraged to plant trees, which benefit the environment and improves quality of life. With nearly 1 million members and supporters, the Arbor Day Foundation is the nation’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to planting trees. Everyone joining this month will receive one…
by Submitted Article access_time8 years ago
ECMS ELA class in book study
Nicaria Andry’s eighth grade English Language Arts (ELA) class at Escambia County Middle School is participating in an independent book study for the next five weeks. The students are reading Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera and Bill Cleaver. Summary of Where the Lilies Bloom: Mary Call has promised her dying father to keep her brother and sisters together forever on the mountain, and never to take any help from strangers.…
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‘Intensity of storms is manmade’
To the editor: The Republican Congress is divided on many issues. But according to Jeffrey Tobin of CNN, there is one thing they are united on: global warming is a myth. The Houston debacle is a game changer though. Never in modern history has there been such a deluge … over 50 inches, in about 48 hours. Most meteorologists believe the intensity of these storms is manmade … Not an…
by Submitted Article access_time8 years ago
In the ECMS Science Lab
At Escambia County Middle School, students in Ronda Hoffman’s eighth-grade science recently performed a variety of experiments in the ECMS Science Lab. The students explored properties of matter with eight investigation stations set up. Some of the properties explored were temperature, volume, density, solubility, floating and sinking, describing matter, and mixing liquids. After the lab was completed the students were able to explain the properties they observed from each investigation.…
by Submitted Article access_time8 years ago