Audra DeLaHaye

After four years on this job, there are some things that, once exciting, now just wear me out. It's inevitable, comes with any job. But this year, a new feature was added that, frankly, has brightened me when at my lowest.

At the beginning of the school year, a new teacher, Miss Harris, was hired to teach 5th grade English. She's young, fresh, cute as a button - and each week she picked up free copies of the Chronicle for each of her students. So, for the entire school year, the 5th grade kids spent Thursdays reading our paper.

And thus, any time I challenged readers in general to contribute somehow in writing, I would come in the following week to discover a pile of 5th grade papers on my desk.

I have visited their class, "Miss Harris, Look! It's Lisa Minney!" Spent a field trip day with them, "Can I have your autograph?" and have read through four such piles of letters to me this year. "I'm turning 11 next week, can you put that in the paper?"

They've told me what it means to be a Calhounian, and what they like about our newspaper. They've told me I'm a great writter (misspelling is intentional there, Mother~), that after they read the paper, they "put in on the floor for the dog to use as a bathroom."

It never occurred to me until today... The school year is ending, and these 5th graders are about to lose their free weekly copies, and they don't know if their 6th grade teacher will do the same for them next year.

You see, I came in today to a pile of thank-you letters.

It could have been a rough day - deadline day, you know, it's kinda tense...
But it wasn't so bad after all.

Want to know more about DeLaHaye? Visit her web site at WV Travelers , or her online store at Impecunious Impressions, or read her weekly column at The Calhoun Chronicle.




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