West and East Corinth Students Get “Organ Wise”
Thanks to a $1,500 grant from the W.K. Kellogg and Oliver Foundation national initiative, East Corinth recently received The OrganWise Guys Core kit to help students reach optimal wellness. West students will also benefit from the grant.
According to the grant review committee, “East Corinth Elementary is an ideal candidate to receive The OrganWise Guys curriculum. They are very enthusiastic about educating the kids on making healthy lifestyle choices. They have some great ideas as to how to get the health messages home and out into the community. Great job and good luck!”
School officials are very excited about the new addition to their curriculum.
“We are very grateful to the W.K. Kellogg and Oliver Foundation for providing another resource for implementing the Healthy Schools Act, Senate Bill 2369,” said Kay Strickland, School Health Coordinator. MORE...
Storytellers Entertain East Corinth Students
East Corinth Elementary School’s third grade teachers recently hosted a Storytellers’ Theater for their students. Because several of the stories in their reading textbooks 
first semester were folktales, fables and legends, the teachers thought it would be a good way for their students to see firsthand how stories of this genre are passed down through generations by the act of oral storytelling. Four individuals visited East to share stories with the students. They included Patricia Harville, a retired librarian from the Alcorn School District, who travels extensively and enjoys sharing stories with children; Tommie Rafidi, also a retired librarian who spend much of her career at East, and whose love of reading and storytelling most likely was a basis for her career choice; William McMullin, library system director of the Northeast Mississippi Regional Library, who has shared his storytelling skills to various groups throughout the many years he has lived in the Corinth area; and Kate Butler, a former educator who recently retired as principal of West Corinth Elementary School. Butler brought along a couple of four-legged furry friends to assist her with her storytelling. The teachers hope to make the Storytellers’ Theater and annual event and maybe even add another session to the spring semester at some point if time allows.
CHS Student Chosen for Prestigious Lions Band
Corinth High School junior, Logan Reiselt, was chosen as a member of the Mississippi Lions All State Band. The trombone player credits more practice time and eight months worth of weekly lessons with an instructor at Northeast Mississippi Community College as the keys to his successful tryout.
Scales, a prepared piece of music and sight-reading a piece of music chosen by Lions Band officials make up the tryouts, according to Reiselt. “You have just a three minute audition to show what you can do,” said Bruce Dobbs, CHS Band Director.
Approximately 900 instrumentalists, dancers, drum majors and color guard members from across the Magnolia State tried out for a spot in the prestigious band. Of those, around 60 were trombone players. So, making a spot in the band was no minor feat for Reiselt. The high schooler admitted there were two main incentives for him to do well in the tryouts: being a member of the all-state band and getting to travel to.
By becoming a member of the state band, Reiselt has made a more than two week commitment for training and performances. The group will spend a week at Jones Junior College where they are in rehearsals from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. with breaks for meals. Then on June 27, the group will arrive in where they will spend much of the time in and around Sydney.MORE...
