GREENBELT News ReviewAn Independent Newspaper VOL. 69, No. 52 15 Crescent Rd., Suite 100, Greenbelt, MD 20770-1887 NOVEMBER 16, 2006 Three Miss Greenbelt Winners American Education Week Find Fun, Purpose in Pageant November 12–18, 2006 by Esther Nguonly Now marking just over 50 Junior Miss Green- years of existence, the 2006 Miss belt and Little Miss Greenbelt Pageant closed this Greenbelt. Miss year with three new queens, all Greenbelt contestants glad they could help the com- ranged in age from munity commemorate the one- 14 to 19, Junior Miss year anniversary of Hurricane from 11 to 13, and Katrina. Little Miss from 7 to The reigning Miss Greenbelt 10 years old. Con- of 2005, Emily Ivy, helped ini- testants helped or- tiate and raise money for the ganize and attended “Book Relief: A First Book Ini- community service Lois Barron Colleen Reed tiative” charity in Greenbelt. projects including First Book is a national nonprofi t a bake sale and the organization whose mission is to book fund collection, Barron and Reed Enjoy give children from low-income according to Molly families the opportunity to read Jankowski, the new Teaching at St. Hugh's and own their fi rst new books. Little Miss Green- This year’s winners plan to belt. by Rebecca Boggs continue the “Book It” initiative Money collected and all three young ladies are from the fundrais- In honor of American Edu- we create lasting memories excited to work with coordinators ers would go to pur- cation Week, the News Review and students do frequently and the community to help and chase new textbooks, interviewed educators from come back,” she says. work with children. supplies and chalk Greenbelt schools including When asked how she keeps “I feel like it’s wonderful that boards for schools hit Lois Barron and Colleen Reed, their attention, she says can- I can give back to my commu- by Katrina. two dedicated teachers from didly, she doesn’t always. nity,” said Kimberly Wynkoop, Jankowski says PHOTO BY BILL CORNETT St. Hugh’s Elementary and Most of the time she has to be The winners of the 2006 Miss Greenbelt Junior High School. Saint an actress, and she has to fi ll the new 2006 Miss Greenbelt. she hopes all the pageant are: Molly Jankowski, Little The 32 contestants had prac- kids can go back to Hugh’s, originally a convent, the day with interesting items Miss Greenbelt; Kimberly Wynkoop, Miss was founded in 1949 as a not always on the agenda. ticed every Thursday since July school and “not miss Greenbelt; and Jasmin Kienas, Junior Miss in preparation for the Labor Day out and actually have school. It is accredited by the She says the most challenging pageant and festival. This year’s an education. If you Middle States Association of thing about teaching 8th grade theme was honoring victims of want an education and can’t have life,” she added. Colleges and Schools and rec- is, “at St. Hugh’s pupils build Hurricane Katrina. one, it’s just really sad because Wynkoop, 16, a junior at El- ognized by the Maryland State a strong Catholic identity. We Contestants were divided into you can’t read and get a job. It eanor Roosevelt High School, is Department of Education. help students to develop fully three categories: Miss Greenbelt, really affects you in your older currently seeking a community Lois Barron to meet the world head on. project for the year. She hopes “I knew I wanted to teach We try to do this in a friendly to find a charity or foundation when I was a little girl. I and academic atmosphere.” Co-op Faces Challenges; where she can help raise money made my dog, Bootsie, lis- Barron’s hope for her stu- for underprivileged children. ten to me. I especially liked dents is “that they leave St. Board Members Reelected Scholarship Pageant teaching him math,” Lois Hugh’s with a strong sense In 1992 the program became Barron says with a smile. A of self, knowing that they by Mary Moien a scholarship pageant, emphasiz- Washington, D.C., native and are capable of accomplishing graduate of the University of anything they want to with The annual meeting of the time, negotiations were still con- ing the importance of education by providing scholarships to the Maryland, Barron is an 8th a little hard work and mind Greenbelt Consumer Cooperative tinuing.) The board is proposing grade teacher and the vice set. Those things will take – the Co-op grocery store – was a 20-year lease with 10-year Miss Greenbelt winners. Each Miss Greenbelt is given a check principal at St. Hugh’s. She them anywhere they want to held on October 28. Major topics extensions; they are negotiating has been teaching 8th grade go.” She would like people included negotiating a new lease over the rental adjustments with of $1,000 toward her education. Every one of the girls has used for 25 years, except for a short in Greenbelt to realize the for the store and a slowdown of the owners. three-year break when she strength of the St. Hugh’s profi ts from previous years. Challenges Faced the money toward college, ac- cording to Natasha Jewell, one of taught 6th grade. community and the importance Board Chair Dorrie Bates sum- Bates said that the coopera- Greenbelt has a special of the school, which, with marized the past year’s activities. tive is “facing some challenges,” the pageant directors. The goals of the pageant are place in her heart, since she a strong sense of Christian In February 2006 the board was including cost increases that ev- had lived here for 18 years responsibility, helps educate informed that their lease would eryone is familiar with – fuel See PAGEANT, page 12 when her children were grow- youth from Greenbelt and sur- not be renewed. The Co-op increases, wage increases and ing up and attending St. rounding areas. is not the master leaser of the rent increases. However, she is Hugh’s. She currently lives Colleen Reed building. Scan holds the main confi dent that the co-op will con- What Goes On in Ellicott City. Colleen Reed teaches art lease with the building owners tinue to be a successful business. “I like teaching 8th grade,” and music to all students in and subleased parts of the build- She spoke about the renovations Monday, November 20 she says, “because it is an ex- kindergarten through 8th grade ing to the Co-op, the Post Offi ce that were going to be performed around 9 p.m. (immediately citing year for students since at St. Hugh’s. She grew up in and the Greenbelt Arts Center. in the fi scal year just ended. In- following executive session), they are the ‘seniors’ and the the Washington, D.C., area and Last February, Scan decided not stead of doing all of the renova- Council Worksession re: City other students look up to them. attended St. John the Baptist to renew its master lease with tions at once, they will be com- They go on special trips and in Silver Spring and the Acad- Manager’s Quarterly Update, the building owners, Glen Burnie pleted piecemeal. The co-op has prepare for high school and emy of the Holy Cross High Partnership. The board looked at no long term debt at the moment Municipal Building Catholic confi rmation, which School in Kensington. While many options, including buying but the board is conservative and Tuesday, November 21 takes place at the end of 8th attending the University of the building and perhaps moving does not want to borrow. Look- 7 p.m., Open Forum on the grade. Maryland where she received to the former Post Offi ce location. ing to the future, Bates indicated Bird Flu and a Possible Pan- “What I like most about her degree, she realized that The owners are not interested in that there will be a patronage demic, Multi Purpose Room teaching is that it is rewarding as a performance art major she selling the building. refund this year but is not certain in Community Center watching my students devel- was busy most evenings and The board determined that about next year. Thursday and Friday, op and grow into individuals that schedule was not working staying where they are is the Treasurer Joe Timer spoke November 23 and 24 – who will go off and do their for her. best option. Bates stated that next. He said that the balance City and GHI Offi ces Closed part in the world.” Barron She started teaching part- there is “every indication that we sheet is in good shape but “not in Observance of Thanksgiving also comments that it is fun time the last couple of years will be here for lots more years.” as rosy as last year.” The store when students come back with while she was in college. She Thursday, November 23 They had hoped to come to the had total sales of $11.2 million their own children as new stu- liked the daytime schedule annual meeting with a signed in Fiscal Year 2006, up from 9 a.m., 2006 Gobble Wobble dents at St. Hugh’s. “Since the lease. However, the board and $10.9 million the year before – Race starting at Youth Center school is small and intimate, See TEACHERS, page 6 owners are in “the fi nal stages of negotiating a lease.” (As of press See CO-OP, page 12 Page 2 GREENBELT NEWS REVIEW Thursday, November 16, 2006 Grin Belt Holiday Changes Newspaper Deadline! 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