Stillwater Junior High School Students of the Month for April and May along with their parents joined Centennial Rotarians for breakfast. These students were selected by their teachers. Ibrahim Alghamdi aims to be an engineer. Meanwhile outside school plays soccer and video games. Favorite class: Physical Science. Addison Edwards aims toward an out-of-state college to study media and journalism. She is involved in church groups and photography as well as Beta Club, Peer Partners, Volleyball and Yearbook. Favorite class: English. Allison Hoback plans to be a research biologist at a university after study at OSU.
In school she is in the wind ensemble, jazz band and pit orchestra, marching band and full orchestra. Favorite class: Science. Declan Knight immediate plans are working on the Boy Scout Eagle Scout award, entering the Meridian Tech engineering program and continuing playing piano. Rotarians enjoyed meeting the parents and hearing the students’ ideas.
In school she is in the wind ensemble, jazz band and pit orchestra, marching band and full orchestra. Favorite class: Science. Declan Knight immediate plans are working on the Boy Scout Eagle Scout award, entering the Meridian Tech engineering program and continuing playing piano. Rotarians enjoyed meeting the parents and hearing the students’ ideas.
Shown, Rotarian Cathy Albright with Ibrahim Alghamdi & Addison Edwards and with Alllison Hoback & Declan Knight.
Five members of the Stillwater Junior High School Robotics Team were breakfast guests of the Stillwater Centennial Rotarians. The Robotics Team won the State Championship this March. Among individual SJHS individual State award winners Aiden Kim, Jonathan Ku, Thomas Joyce and William Lin were named State tournament champions. Joshua Li was State tournament finalist and won the Excellence Award and was Robot Skills Champion. SJHS sent two Robotics Teams on to Dallas for the April World Championship. They came in the top 18 percent and top 26 percent of the 480 teams in the competition. Stillwater students, once again, demonstrated they can hold their own academically with the best elsewhere. Centennial Rotarians helped out with $1200 toward the cost of the Dallas trip. Shown, Rotarian Crystal Szymanski, SJHS Principal, Students Joshua Li, William Lin, Thomas Joyce, Johnathan Ku and Aiden Kim with advisor STEM instructor Rebecca Palmatary.
Stillwater Police Chief Jeff Watts joined Centennial Rotarians for breakfast. The Chief has spent 31 years with the department. Starting as a rookie patrolman he worked his way through to the top. For him, community involvement is important. He mentioned the Shop With a Cop (holiday children) And Cops and Bobbers (Kids fishing at Boomer). There are two officers designated as liaison with the LGBTQ community. The force has a designated mental health officer and through internet devices, officers can help persons quickly access mental health experts. Property crime is a problem. Large box retailers are reluctant to file shoplifting complaints. If filed, however, police will bring charges in municipal court regardless of the amount stolen. Fentanyl, an artificial opioid, is a major problem. Developed as an end-
of-life pain relief patch, drug cartels found it is cheap to manufacture and can be distributed over the border to retail at $10 per pill, an immense profit. Absent any regulation the user cannot know if the dosage is lethal. Fentanyl, like heroin, is strongly addictive. Users become essentially unemployable, forced to steal wherever convenient for funds. Stealing makes them impossible to live with. They become homeless. Stillwater police stay busy. When an opening comes, many experienced officers from elsewhere apply. Police throughout the state see Stillwater’s Police Department as a desirable destination.
of-life pain relief patch, drug cartels found it is cheap to manufacture and can be distributed over the border to retail at $10 per pill, an immense profit. Absent any regulation the user cannot know if the dosage is lethal. Fentanyl, like heroin, is strongly addictive. Users become essentially unemployable, forced to steal wherever convenient for funds. Stealing makes them impossible to live with. They become homeless. Stillwater police stay busy. When an opening comes, many experienced officers from elsewhere apply. Police throughout the state see Stillwater’s Police Department as a desirable destination.
Shown are Chief Jeff Watts Rotarian David Thomas.