April 11, 2008

  • No News = Good News?

    After last week's motorcycle accident, I scoured the web for three or four days, looking for information that would (I hoped) tell me that the cyclist had survived.  Believe it or not, but this accident wasn't "important" enough to be reported by any local news agencies.

    However, that's good; right?  If the cyclist had died, it would have made the news.  I hope the cyclist's parents are sitting by and tending him as he recovers and giving him lots of good advice about how to change his careless ways.  Let this be the cyclist's wakeup call.  Tempting fate is dangerous, and he is far more fortunate than his actions deserve.

    The accident was mentioned as an "injury accident" in the Lee's Summit police blotter, so I hope with time, all the injuries the foolish cyclist sustained will heal completely.

    Fame!

    In a completely unrelated but much happier story, Iltflinthills was featured* in a news story on KCTV-5, our local CBS affiliate, last night.  If you click on the link above, you can watch the actual news story about a Kansas scholarship program for prospective ESL teachers.  When I posted this Xanga, Iltflinthills and one of her students were in the photo link to the video.  Iltflinthills is earning her ESL certification from K-State but is not part of the specific scholarship program discussed during the video.  However, the ESL students at her school are photogenically adorable and make for nice background footage.

    Iltflinthills only appears briefly.  However, The Professor and I didn't need a television station to film a story at her school to be proud of the work she is doing.  Iltflinthills may only be a first-year teacher, but I think she is really making a positive difference in her elementary school students' lives.  Now that is meaningful work.

    *If featured can now be defined as fleetingly or momentarily appearing.

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