1.  As a result of phenomenal test scores over the past 3 years, RHHS sophomores, juniors, and seniors will have an open campus lunch policy.  The policy takes effect on September 17 and will extend the lunch period by 10 minutes, giving students a 45 minute lunch.

 

2.  Due to Rock Hill’s growth as a community, Walmart has announced that Rock Hill will receive the next Super Walmart in May 2006, which is rare since Walmart usually doesn’t build their stores within 75 miles of each other.  Some members of the community are sending a petition and having a town meeting on March 9th because they are concerned this will hurt their local businesses.

 

3.  In an effort to send a student that has been tested to be a genius  to medical school early, Saluda Trail principal, Mr. Fred George, would like to move Napoleon Dynamite, 6th grader, to high school early.  George says that he “doesn’t want to waste any time in middle school.”

 

4.  Due to child abuse or neglect, 3 to 4 children die everyday in the United States, according to the Child Abuse Center in Baltimore’s survey released yesterday.  It has been found that the number of child abuse cases have risen since last year to 2.6 million to 2.7 million, and 75% of the deaths were among children under the age of 5, and more than half of the children who died were under the age of 1.

 

5.  Due to a fire in Los Gatos, Kathy Mahoney has $76,000 in damages to her home and minor burns on her hands and feet.  In Kathy’s two-bedroom home in the 2300 block of main street, a lighted cigarette was left on a sofa as Kathy slept, which caused the fire that firefighters responded to at 3:30 a.m. and had under control in 5 minutes.