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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.

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