Beacon Sept 2023

September 2023 THE BEACON Page 5A
DCRTA Helps Shape Education Through Teacher Grants
The DCRTA Sewing Group creates clothing items from repurposed fabric. The items are
donated to children around the world.
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Ohio, Switzerland, Dearborn,
Ripley, and Franklin. Any
active teacher can attend that
would like to learn more. A
financial advisor presents the
workshop at the Lawrenceburg
Library. DCRTA also
recognizes active teachers
by celebrating them through
teacher appreciation. Mrs.
Mosier says, “This past
February each teacher in
Dearborn County received
a candy bar, which is a big
deal if you love chocolate!”
Mrs. Moder elaborates, “I
was the chairman for that
one, and we wrapped lots of
full-size candy bars!” The
teachers were also given the
opportunity to sign up to win
one of fourteen raffle baskets
that were given to each
school. DCRTA and DCRTF
worked together on this to
help make teachers aware
that this wonderful organization
exists and is looking out
for them. Mrs. Moder shares,
“We did it in the third quarter
of school because that is the
toughest quarter for teachers
and students so we picked a
Valentine’s theme specifically
because we have all been
By Jake Moore, LPLD Director
Denise Freitag-Burdette
A mother of five kids tries
her best to turn in all of those
books and DVDs on time,
but her hectic life sometimes
makes it impossible.
A teen who wants to read
the new book by her favorite
author but finds out she has
late fees from when her little
brother used her library card
to check out Captain Underpants
and the Sensational
Saga of Sir Stinks-a-Lot.
The man who loves reading
historical biographies but
got distracted when he had a
minor medical emergency that
had to be addressed before the
books could be returned.
Hate library late fees? So
do we! That is why starting
in September 2023, the
Lawrenceburg Public Library
District officially has stopped
charging late fees. And those
teachers and we know how
it is.”
Mrs. Mosier says “DCRTA
is a shining light in the state,
and I don’t say that because I
am president, because that’s
just this much time in a fiftyone-year
span.
We have been strong in
the state for a long time.
Each year our community
service chairperson submits
a nomination for an outstanding
volunteer award and since
2005 we have had eleven
winners!” Just in the past six
months alone, Mrs. Mosier
has had three hundred and
twenty-seven volunteer hours
herself! This is not unusual,
as some volunteers can have
a thousand volunteer hours a
year! Mr. Nicholson shares,
“I think when you think about
the kind of people that go into
teaching, they are already
people with a lot of energy
and a lot of teachers are extremely
empathetic people.
If you are not when you go
in, with what we see in the
classroom, you can’t help but
become that way because it
becomes so important. Some
of it is heartbreaking, and it
motivates you to want to do
LPLD Goes Fine-Free
more.”
DCRTA does a community
service project each year and
has been recognized by IRTA
for its outstanding service
projects.
This year they won outstanding
in all three areas,
website, newsletter, and news
article. They were the only association
to do so in the state.
Another example of important
community service performed
was during COVID, the
DCRTA sewing group, sewed
eighteen hundred masks
which were distributed free of
charge.
I could go on and on about
how impressed I am with
what good teachers do.
I know during COVID
when my daughter’s fourthgrade
teacher called me to
check in, I got teary-eyed because
I was in over my head
trying to help four children
with E-Learning and trying
to keep up with my job. She
reassured me that we would
get through it together, and
you know what, we did.
So here is to Mrs. Mary
Hamburg, my first-grade
teacher who wrote my name
on the chalkboard because I
past late fees? All gone. Your
library card is free of them.
(It is OK to dance. We will
wait! Did you learn some new
moves while watching Tik
Tok? They are fantastic!)
Now that does not mean
all fees go away. All items
do need to be returned in the
same condition they left. But if
you are a little late, no worries
about accumulating late fees.
To celebrate, Lawrenceburg
Public Library District
is planning special programs
for September. The national
theme, presented by the
American Library Association,
is Get in Your Element
this September- Sign Up for
a Library Card. They will
receive a little help from
the characters in the movie
Elemental.
At the Lawrenceburg Main
Library and North Dearborn
Branch, each week in September
will be dedicated to a
different element. Week One is
Air/Wind. The kick-off week
will include a visit from a
storm chaser (this is going to
be exciting) and mobile library
crafts creating your own windsock
and wind chime. Even
the preschool story times will
be themed based on the four
basic elements. The following
weeks will feature water, land/
Earth, and fire.
Sign up for the Lawrenceburg
Public Library District
newsletter or follow us on
Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram
to find out more details!
(Pssst. The library forecast
shows favorable conditions that
patrons using their library card,
or signing up for a new one,
could be eligible for prizes!)
Do you have questions
about LPLD going fine-free?
More information can be
found at www.lpld.lib.in.us.
wouldn’t stop talking. Even
my giant crocodile tears
could not convince her to
relinquish my punishment to
write one hundred times, “I
will not talk during class.”
She taught me respect. Here
is to Mrs. Debbie Brodbeck
who awarded me Student
of the Month in gym; she
told me that even if I wasn’t
the strongest at something,
I always gave my best. She
taught me to believe in
myself. Here is to Mr. Dick
Horton who always made
history class fun and interesting
with his storytelling. He
taught me passion. Here is to
Dr. Judith Trent who made
me present my research paper
first in the class even though
I thought I could finagle my
way into getting more time…
she declined and told me to
get my whole self to the front
of the class ASAP. She taught
me discipline and accountability.
There aren’t enough pages
in this newspaper to thank all
of the teachers who have in
some shape or form impacted
my life. Were they all easy?
Of course not. Was I? Definitely
not! But, those teachers
made me better. A better
student, a better person, and
they helped prepare me for
life by giving me the tools
needed to be successful. I
look at my kids; the aspiring
firefighter, the possible
landscaper, future athletic
trainer, and budding mechanical
engineer (after he
wins America’s Got Talent
first,) and I think, continue to
dream, dream so very big.”
Then I think of their teachers
who I want to thank so very
loudly for their incredible
gift to inspire.
To learn more about
DCRTA and all that they do
you can check out their website,
www.dearborncountyrta.
org
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