Mar 16, 2021
While so many things around us changed in the past year, it’s refreshing to know that some things have not.
One of those is that hard work and preparation can pay big dividends.
We saw that Saturday, when Isabella Fletcher won the Jefferson-Harrison County Regional Spelling Bee presented by the Herald-Star.
This year’s event was virtual, which meant that the competitors and bee officials were spread among several sites across the area. It had a very different feel from the other regional bees. There was no stage to compete on or a crowd of several hundred to view the event.
Staff writer
TOP FINISHERS â Isabella Fletcher, seated at center in the left lower box, a seventh grader at Harding Middle School, emerged the winner of the 2021 Jefferson-Harrison County Regional Spelling Bee, in which 46 pupils from through the two counties participated virtually to practice social distancing. Appearing with her on a large screen at the Jefferson County Educational Service Centerâs R. Larry George Training Annex at the eventâs closing were other top finishers: Mary Jones, an eighth grader with the Heart of Mary Homeschool Association, second; Luke Kanzelberger, an eighth grader at Bishop John King Mussio Junior High School, third; Angelo Martello, a sixth grader at Harding Middle School, fourth; Abigail Dennis, a seventh-grader at Indian Creek Middle School, fifth; Ava Mizak, a fifth-grader at Bishop John King Mussio, sixth; Adrianna Swartz, an eighth grader at Toronto Junior High School, seventh; Kylie Moffat, a seventh-grader at Bishop John King M
If the answer is “not reading this article,” you might want to keep going.
If you’re reading this article because you’re distracting yourself from something that needs to be done, you might be struggling with something called acedia.
On March 2, just before the coronavirus pandemic caused shutdowns around the world, Fr. Harrison Ayre, a priest in the Diocese of Victoria, British Columbia, started tweeting about his experience with the vice of acedia.
Acedia (pronounced ‘uh-see-dee-uh’ in English) comes from the Greek word akēdeia, meaning “lack of care.” It is closely akin to the sin of “sloth”, but it is more complex than mere laziness or boredom.
A new president takes the reins at University of Dallas
Jonathan J. Sanford replaces Thomas S. Hibbs, who resigned to return to Baylor University as a professor.
Jonathan J. Sanford takes the reins this week as the 10th president of the University of Dallas.(Courtesy photo)
The University of Dallas announced this week that Provost Jonathan J. Sanford will immediately begin his new role as university president.
Sanford, who was appointed by the university’s board of trustees, is the 10th president at the private Catholic university in Irving.
Previous President Thomas S. Hibbs announced his resignation in January and plans to return to a full-time faculty position at Baylor University, where he previously worked. He will continue to serve as a professor of philosophy at UD for the remainder of this academic year.
03/01/2021 at 12:04 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
By Anne Hendershott, Crisis, March 1, 2021
While faithful Catholics are grateful for the statement last week from five of our bishops on the threats posed by the Equality Act, it is a bit too little and much too late. For more than two years,
Crisis Magazine has been sounding thealarmaboutthethreats posed by the Equality Act that was just passed last week by the House of Representatives with a 224-206 vote. Warned that the Act threatened the civil rights of women and all people of faith, Crisis readers understood that the Equality Act would not only destroy equality for women who are not biological males (a contradictory phrase made necessary by today’s ridiculous vocabulary), but it would also remove all protections that the Religious Freedom Act had provided to us in the past.