08-09 Winter Newsletter - Daniel Boone Area School District

Winter 2009DBMS Duo Takes Part In Breast Cancer WalkBy Jana MahonImagine a cold day, and you’rewalking, but not just for anything --you’re walking to change lives. Yourlegs grow tired, your heart is beatingfaster, your breathing gets heavier,and your whole body is numb. You’reabout to give up when from the cornerof your eye you see acrowd of happy, smilingpeople holding signs andcheering for you.That’s similar to whatMRS. BETSY LEHMAN, asixth-grade language artsteacher, and MRS. JOANHILOVSKY, an eighthgrademath teacher, experiencedin October duringthe Breast Cancer 3-Daywalk in Philadelphia.Taking place in 14 citiesnationwide, the BreastCancer 3-Day event is aseries of three-day, 60-mile walks that raise millionsof dollars for breastcancer research. ThePhiladelphia walks wereheld Oct. 17-19.Lehman and Hilovsky were two ofmore than 3,000 people who participatedin the Philadelphia walk thisyear. Walkers raised more than $8 millionfor breast cancer research.“People were just lined up on theside and you would walk past themand they would yell and cheer foryou. Three people had shirts thatread: high five, Wahoo, and hooray,”Lehman said, smiling. “That was myfavorite thing.”Both Daniel Boone Middle SchoolBetsy Lehman, far left, and Joan Hilovsky, far right, posewith members of a Mummers string band during the 3-Day BreastCancer walk in Philadelphia. Lehman and Hilovsky are teachersat Daniel Boone Middle School. The walk was held in October.teachers had the same response whendiscussing how they prepared for theevent: “We walked…a lot.”People who participated in theevent had to walk a total of 60 milesin three days. At night they slept in atent. Neither teacher enjoyed stayingin a tent.“It was freezing! We slept with hatsand sweaters on. No one got up touse the bathroom in the middle ofthe night because it was too cold,”Lehman said.While Lehman had aproblem with the weather,it was the color of thetents that really botheredHilovsky.“The tents were pink;I really didn’t like that,”Hilovsky said.Because it was so grueling,Hilovsky and Lehmanweren’t sure if they wouldparticipate in the 3-Daywalk again. They wouldlike to have some part in theevent, however. Hilovskysaid, “I would consider doinga two-day event.”Every year more than200,000 men and womenwill be diagnosed withbreast cancer. Of those,40,000 will lose their lives to it. Womenare diagnosed with breast cancer everythree minutes.Jana Mahon is an eighth-gradestudent at Daniel Boone Middle SchoolHoliday HoedownOne-hundred seventy-six juniors and seniors participatedin the annual square dance held in the DanielBoone High School gymnasium on Dec. 23. MR. RAYAYERS was the caller for the event. The dance is the culminatingactivity for a physical education square danceunit. The activity was organized by the high schoolPhysical Education Department – MR. DAVE BODOLUS,MS. ASHLEY FRY, MR. MIKE GREEN, MRS. CINDYLYKENS, and MRS. LISA SCHWENK.5