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Adair Schools supplies packed for delivery to help Paducah, KY teachers

School teachers in Paducah system needed supplies when class sizes swelled with students leaving Katrina disaster area; Gail Milligan, Shepherd Elementary School, organizes aid which she will deliver Friday, September 30, 2006, to Western Kentucky city. Paducah middle school teacher awaits supplies, expresses gratitude for assistance
Photo Gail Milligan, Robbie Harmon, and Debra Wimmer with this article
Every school in the Adair County School District participated in an SUV load of supplies which will go to Paducah to aid teachers whose classes have greater needs because of new students there after the Katrina disaster.


Gail Milligan, who organized the project, said that she had just talked to Susan Paul, a teacher at Paducah Middle School, who told, "This really touches us, that people would help students and teachers they don't even know."The SUV was loaded at 10:00 a.m., Thursday, September 30, 2005, in front of Adair County High School.
Among the special gifts were art supplies from the National Art Honor Society, of Adair County High School and Adair County Middle School, whose sponsor is the Head of the Art Department, Debra Wimmer. The class created a poem to send with the gift, which reads:

We send paper, pencils and journals . . .
For to write is to purge the soul . . .

We send instruments with which to draw . . .
For drawing and painting soothes the soul . . .

We send our thoughts . . .
For to know someone cares lifts the soul . . .

We send hope . . .
For it is an element of life that sustains the soul . . .


National Art Society
Adair County High School
Adair County Middle School

In addition to this box, others were from:
  • Adair County High School: The Future Educators Club, at the direction of Dawn Baker, collected school supplies to go to Paducah

  • Adair County Middle School, with Principal Donald McKinney directing the effort, sent supplies

  • John Adair Intermediate School, Judy Bradshaw, school project coordinator, sent supplies

  • Sparksville Elementary School, Rachelle Pyles Rodgers, school project coordinator, sent supplies.

  • Knifley Grade Center, Principal Robbie Harmon, school project coordinator, sent supplies

  • Shepherd Elementary School, Gail Milligan, school project coordinator and organizer of the systemwide drive, sent school supplies.
Gail Milligan will be delivering the supplies Friday, September 30, 2005, to Paducah, KY.


This story was posted on 2005-09-29 11:37:00
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Katrina aid to Paducah school teachers



2005-09-29 - Adair County High School, Columbia, KY - Photo Staff. Shepherd Elementary School teacher Gail Milligan, left, is packed, ready to head out Friday, September 30, 2005, with some school supplies which are badly needed by teachers in the Paducah School District. Paducah public schools have seen an influx of students who have moved there following the Katrina Disaster. Center is Knifley Grade Center Principal Robbie Harmon, and right is Debra Wimmer, head of the Art Department at Adair County High School. All schools in the Adair County School District participated in the effort.
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