SCHOOL NEWS

New York’s Winter Bazaar set for Dec. 3

The annual Winter Bazaar, a fund-raiser for New York School, is set for 5 p.m.-8 p.m. Dec. 3 at the school’s gymnasium, 936 N.Y.

The event will include holiday gift items, baked goods, crafts and a silent auction. Odessa’s Cafe will serve an old-fashioned dinner at the bazaar.

Quail Run is assisting with the bazaar. The sixth-grade bands and orchestras from New York and Quail Run will perform.

— Alyson Butler, Quail Run sixth-grader

Teen poetry

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By Xin Liu

A scar, built upon by a thousand wounds,

Pain, flashing in red blood,

Pounding, aching, and throbbing of the head.

Memories swimming in murky water,

Trying to resurface again.

Laughter, sneers and pointed finger.

Humiliation, disgrace, and unwanted.

Falling, and a figure running away.

Eyes fluttering open,

“Where am I?”

Memories.

Siren, needles ever so sharp,

Whispers, shouting out loud,

Heavy, numb and so tired,

Sleep, to erase the moving pictures,

To forget.

Flashes, memories, slipping away,

Relief, then it all flooded back.

Darkness, shun by others,

All alone, only myself,

Walking down a hole.

Alone, ever so alone,

To forget.

Block the world out.

— Xin Liu, Southwest Junior High ninth-grader

Ben Franklin visits New York School

New York School fifth-graders in Melissa Turpin’s class had a visit a few weeks ago from Benjamin Franklin, played by John Walburn.

“Ben Franklin” gave information about life in the colonial period and showed artifacts from the period. The students also learned that virtues and values Ben Franklin talked about in the 1700s and are still important today. Each student received a card naming them members of the “What Good Can I Do Today” club, as well as a small soap made by the method that Ben Franklin would have used.

— Judy Desetti, library media specialist, New York School