NWA Editorial

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Dear Editor,

The PHS Alumni Association would like to thank the Northwest Alabamian for promoting our PHS Alumni Day held on May 4th with printed articles and pictures. Thanks to Chad Fell for coming and covering the event. Also thanks to the following businesses and individuals for donations of contributions and door prizes:

American Manufacturers Supply

Burley Wholesale

Cadence Bank

Coop's Bears Den

Easy Lube

Exxel Outdoors, Inc.

1st National Bank

Furniture Supply

Galley Restaurant

Goar's Big Star

Harden Mfg.

HMH Supply, Inc.

Hicks Tire Pros

Hydeout Restaurant

Jack's

Jimmy Setliff

Jolly Dan's

Lion's Den Food Mart

Mays Wholesale (in memory of Gravis Mays)

Major's Drugs

Obedee & Colene Rich

Piggly Wiggly

Pinkard Funeral Homes

Pinnacle Bank

Rushing Florist

Southern Energy Homes

Traders & Farmers Bank

Wayne Chambers & Sue Gravitt for collecting donations & door prizes.

PHS Alumni Association

Dianne Crumpton, Secretary

The grandmothers of the Haleyville High School varsity softball team would like to express our thanks and appreciation to everyone who contributed to the success of our first “Grandmother Treasure Trunk Sale.”

It was a huge success. The team competed in the regional playoff May 10-11 in Huntsville and are undefeated regional champs. They now advance to the state playoffs Thursday, May 16, and Friday, May 17.

Without the publicity and individual support we received, the event would not have been possible. The money we earned will be used to help meet the traveling expenses of the team.

We are proud of our team and they strive to make you proud of them.

It’s great to be a grandmother.

Barbara Posey

Haleyville

I worked in a school cafeteria for years. I enjoyed most of that time. One gets to know the children, not necessarily their personal lives, just their behavior while eating in the lunchroom.

I, and most of the ladies, could recognize without checking paperwork, the children who were “paid” and the ones who ate “free”.

Sometimes the paid children could be wasteful; most of them were not all that hungry. Most of the children who ate free always cleaned their tray and many times tried to come back for more food when they took their tray to the dishroom.

That was the part I did not enjoy. We could not give them seconds. I have seen children try to pick food out of other children’s trays who had left food on their trays and returning them to the dishroom if the trays backed up, come try to grab the leftover food. Whoever was in the dishroom trying to catch up had to, was told to, discourage the taking of food which had not been eaten off other children’s returned trays. I have seen children when we had corn on the cob try to chew up the cob and eat it.

I write this to hope and pray the last place on earth to cut the budget is the feeding of our children. The need is real. We cannot punish the children for the behavior of others. When a child is hungry, they need to be fed. It is that simple.

I do not begrudge America sending money to foreign lands, but my mother always said, ‘Charity begins at home and then abroad.’

If a way can be found to fund, by the billions, money for foreign lands, surely the money can be found to feed our hungry children here in America.

Nadine Hood Overstreet

Haleyville