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Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler (R-MO.) recently hosted her seventh annual Youth Leadership Summit at State Fair Community College in Sedalia. Over 150 students from 33 participating high schools in Missouri’s Fourth Congressional District attended the event, including local students from El Dorado Christian School. At this event, these high school students have the unique opportunity to

El Dorado Christian School students were all “a buzz” on Wednesday morning, October 6, in honor of Fire Prevention Week.  El Dorado Springs Fire Chief Bob Floyd, Assistant Fire Chief Craig Carpenter, Fire Department Secretary Tom Gough, and Smokey Bear (Ron Brown) stopped by and visited with ECS students.  Mr. Gough asked kindergarten through 6th

On Sept. 22, the chapter Greenhands travelled to Joplin for Area Greenhand Conference. At Conference our Greenhands had the opportunity to learn how to grow as leaders through FFA, see what opportunities were available to them, and they also saw the familiar faces of Area Officers Carolyn Huff and Dillon Hargrove and State Officer Kraysen

Thursday, Sept. 16 was National Teach Ag Day and the El Dorado Springs FFA Chapter took that opportunity to take a field trip! -and show our members many different opportunities in agriculture. The chapter travelled to MWI to learn about the welding industry, Heritage Tractor to learn about agriculture mechanics, Lamar Greenhouse to learn about

The El Dorado Christian School Student Council has a busy 2021-22 schedule that is packed with exciting events and they are ready to get started.  Beginning in September, they will host, “See You At The Pole” Christian Day of prayer; followed by Ministry/Encouragement, Christmas Parade, Courtwarming Festivities, and much more.  You can follow ECS StuCo

Northeast Vernon County is pleased to have three of the Region 11 officers from their school. Yesterday NEVC attended the Region 11 Officer Workshops in Carthage. Charity Middleton (at the mic) is the State Officer of Community Service.  She presented two sessions on recognizing your leadership qualities. Emma Bruce (far right) is the Vice President

by Maria Jones, 9 On Friday, Sept. 24, our high school agricultural students put on Food for America. Ag students spent several weeks preparing for this event by planning small stations where elementary students could learn about where their food comes from and the importance of farming and agriculture in our world. The elementary students

by Dylan Rodgers, 9 and Mrs. Francis The Greenhand Conference is for new FFA members who are typically freshmen. This year, every new FFA student attended the conference, which has never happened before. Dillon Hargrove, 12 and Carolyn Huff, 12 are Area 9 officers, and they organized the conference for the greenhands. “We had to

by Allie Ashlock, 10 Mr. McCorkendale’s Chemistry 2 class did an advanced version of the lab the Biology 1 class will be doing next week. For this lab, they are building phones using cups and strings and they will try to determine which of several variables will produce the loudest phone. When we talk, our

by Blane Shonfelt, 10 Beginning this school year the El Dorado Springs School District welcomed Deputy Garrett Lukenbill as our new School Resource Officer. The Canine Courier caught him for a minute and asked him a few questions. Q. Where did you grow up? A. I moved a lot, so I kind of grew up