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Collinsville, Oklahoma March 3, 2005 (& 3/14 update) Miscellaneous News

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I just got a call from my daughter Emily that she was headed to Marathon in the Florida Keys where about 100 dolphins were beached. She belongs to a volunteer group on her Univ. of Miami campus that helps with beached animals. -- Ted -- 7:15pm Wed 3/2/05 (Haven't had status from Emily again but TV report this morning says closer to 50 dolphins -- Ted 10am Thurs). Saturday March 5th update from Emily: She was just there overnight Wed/Thursday and back in class later Thursday. She spent about 4 1/2 hours in the water working with just one of about 48 dolphins on a sandbar near 84th Street in Marathon. (There were about 20 others in a nearby channel). Her job was to hold on to that dolphin to make sure it stayed upright and kept breathing. She had to take a boat out to the sand bar and worked in the dark before having to get out of the water to avoid hypothermia. She said she had help part of the time but the dolphin could take her where ever it wanted and she just had to hang on to the dorsal fin. They started in knee deep water but it got deeper as they moved them. Some Yahoo News about the Dolphins Sad Update from Emily 3/14/2005 says only about 20 of the almost 70 dolphins are still alive less than 2 weeks after the mass stranding. The exact cause is still not known but theories abound. -- Ted

Middle School Construction

The new middle school building on the north end of the block joins buildings built in 1933 (Annex), 1970 (current office/classrooms), and 1978 (band room).

These scouts toured the Newspaper Museum In Collinsville Thursday evening March 3rd, 2005. Some of the boys are from Skiatook and some from Collinsville.

I posted this photo yesterday on the news index page and just realized I had the wrong date. It was actually March 2nd.

The Herald Elementary gym was full of the science project displays created by the 3rd, 4th & 5th graders Thursday March 3rd.

If you would be interested in purchasing a CD with photos from the just completed CHS basketball & wrestling season contact Ted Wright. The price would range from $10-$5 depending on the number requested.