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PAGE 6 - MADISON MESSENGER - <strong>June</strong> 30, <strong>2019</strong><br />
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Goal: To collect 300 books<br />
A book is a gift you can open again and again.”<br />
Residents, teachers and friends Stephanie Huddleston<br />
and Kelly Armfelt are working to ensure that area<br />
children in need receive the gift of a new book this summer.<br />
“I was laying in bed one night and the idea to combine<br />
new books with the summer lunch program just<br />
popped into my head,” Huddleston said.<br />
Huddleston is a volunteer and supporter of the Sufficient<br />
Grace outreach program, which provides nonperishable<br />
food items to school-age children in area<br />
public schools.<br />
A chance meeting and quick sidewalk conversation<br />
with Huddleston at the London Public Library inspired<br />
Armfelt, a summer lunch program and H.E.L.P. House<br />
volunteer, to get involved.<br />
Both women are passionate about the power of putting<br />
new books into the hands of children who typically don’t<br />
have access to new books or the option of choosing “just<br />
right” books for themselves.<br />
With the support of area churches, businesses and<br />
service organizations, Huddleston and Armfelt have set<br />
a goal of collecting 300 new books.<br />
Book collection sites include London Public Library,<br />
Cappy’s Pizza, Phat Daddy’s, <strong>Madison</strong> County Vineyard,<br />
London Church of the Nazarene, St. Patrick<br />
Church, First Presbyterian Church of London, and<br />
<strong>Madison</strong> County Department of Job and Family Services.<br />
Additional collection sites will be added.<br />
New chapter and picture books for children in grades 1-<br />
3 (ages 6-10) will be collected at these sites until July<br />
19.<br />
Volunteers will distribute the<br />
books to children attending the<br />
Andy Morse, owner of Cappy’s Pizza in London, and<br />
resident Kelly Armfelt promote a children’s book collection<br />
that aims to put 300 books in the hands of local<br />
children ages 6-10. New books can be dropped off at<br />
Cappy’s and several other locations around London.<br />
Assistant principals named<br />
<strong>Madison</strong>-Plains Local Schools has two<br />
new assistant principals. The school board<br />
approved the hires on <strong>June</strong> 18.<br />
Jake LeGros is the new assistant principal<br />
at the elementary and intermediate<br />
schools (grades K-6). Brock Wysong is the<br />
new assistant principal at the junior high<br />
and high school (grades 7-12).<br />
LeGros comes to <strong>Madison</strong>-Plains from<br />
Olentangy Local Schools where he taught<br />
fifth grade for the past nine years. He previously<br />
worked as an intervention specialist<br />
for elementary students at New Albany-<br />
Plain Local Schools. LeGros has a master’s<br />
degree from Concordia University in<br />
Chicago in school leadership and a master’s<br />
degree in educational technology from National<br />
University in San Diego. His undergraduate<br />
degree is from The Ohio State<br />
University, where he majored in special education.<br />
He also did coursework at Capital<br />
University where he earned certification as<br />
a general education teacher.<br />
“I am excited and humbled by the opportunity<br />
to be the assistant principal and cannot<br />
wait to work in a new building with<br />
supportive faculty and staff, engaged students<br />
and a wonderful community,” LeGros<br />
said.<br />
He knows the district’s motto, “MP<br />
Strong,” and stated, “I hope to make it even<br />
stronger.”<br />
LeGros replaces Max Lallathin who left the<br />
summer lunch program, spearheaded by <strong>Madison</strong><br />
County Vineyard, the week of July 22.<br />
For more information, contact Stephanie Huddleston<br />
at (740) 506-0012 or rshuddleston@columbus.rr.com or<br />
Kelly Armfelt at (740) 837-0440 or<br />
armfelt_kelly@dublinschools.net.<br />
district to become a principal in Canal Winchester<br />
Local Schools.<br />
Wysong has been a classroom teacher at<br />
Dublin Coffman High School since 2013.<br />
With an undergraduate degree in education<br />
and licensure in science, he has taught<br />
physics, Advanced Placement Physics 1, and<br />
chemistry. He also has served as a junior<br />
varsity golf coach and student council advisor.<br />
Wysong earned his master’s degree from<br />
Miami University (Ohio) in the area of professional<br />
administration.<br />
“I am excited to start a new chapter in<br />
my career, and I am happy to do that at<br />
<strong>Madison</strong>-Plains and work with the students<br />
and families there,” he said.<br />
Wysong replaces and will work alongside<br />
Ann Boerger who has moved into the principal’s<br />
role at the junior high and high<br />
school.<br />
The district’s next regularly scheduled<br />
board meeting is set for July 23 in the board<br />
meeting room at the elementary school.<br />
The board will hold a special meeting at<br />
5 p.m. July 9 to interview candidates for the<br />
open school board position. They plan to appoint<br />
the new school board member following<br />
the interviews. The appointee will<br />
replace Cory Coburn, who resigned effective<br />
<strong>June</strong> 16. The meeting will take place in the<br />
board meeting room.