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'Itchy feet' spurs global adventure
Nels Nelson at a landfill in Ethiopia.
After working in an 89-acre field in central Ethiopia all day, Andover native Nels Nelson returns to his home and writes an email, where he says "for better or worse, I'm a bit of a wanderlust."
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Since graduating from Andover High in 2003, Nelson's life has been filled with travel. -
Dalton column: Learning to write their mind
The first-graders were fascinated by the young girl on the poster, and especially her face. The young girl was about their age when the poster was created 65 years ago.
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I'd been invited to speak on the subject of writing to the first-graders at Shawsheen School, and I was feeling some trepidity, because it is not an age group with whom I regularly speak. Mrs. Susan Infantine, their teacher who'd invited me, had been helpful by explaining where her students were in their sentence development, and I had the help of my granddaughter, Elena Dalton, who was in the class and answered questions I had beforehand.
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MOTIVATION THAT MOVES: Stunt bike champ speaks against bullying
While riding a bike around the gym at South Elementary School, world stunt biking champion Chris Poulos asks the kids what they fear most.
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One student describes a TV show he watched, and another mentions a movie that scared her. Towards the front of the gym, a girl says she's afraid of clowns. Students throughout the gym chuckle. -
Seifert column: Lessons of kindergarten still do ring true
Today at breakfast my head was spinning with topics and arguments: political civil war, too many illegal immigrants, Europe is finished, where will we get oil, windmills are the answer, we need more vacant houses, we have a lousy health system, we must legalize drugs because there's nothing we can do about it, and on and on and on. My God, if I listened to the TV "experts," and believed them, I'd be afraid to get out of the bed each morning.
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