By Beth Pinyerd Happy Grandparents’ Day! This Sunday (Sept. 8) is “National Grandparents Day.” Grandparents come in all kinds of forms and ways. We...
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Education Articles
Blessed by the fruit!
By Beth Pinyerd For the Opelika Observer I love how the summer months blend into the subtle changes of cooler weather. The smells of different...
Alabama 4-H Foundation awards $35,000 in scholarships
Special to the Opelika Observer The Alabama 4-H Foundation recently awarded 35 scholarships to 4-H high school seniors. Scholarships for $1,000 were...
A liberal education doesn’t mean pushing ‘Liberalism’ in class
By Greg Markley For the Opelika Observer It’s amazing how people think a “liberal” education means learning through an ideological prism. Some may...
Safety lessons and Labor Day
By Beth Pinyerd Labor Day is next Monday (Sept. 2!) As a child, I remember that we didn't start the school year until after Labor Day because of our...
A smile and a wink!
By Beth Pinyerd It’s wonderous what a smile can do! I can still remember and put to heart the song that Louis Armstrong sang “When You’re Smiling,...
Encouraging a child with low self-esteem
By Beth Pinyerd Parents and teachers join hand-in-hand at the beginning of the school year to encourage students to do their individual bests in...
SOS as children settle into school
As teachers and parents embark on this second week of school, we begin to assess our class of children with the signal SOS! S - Safe. Do the...
Opelikian Joel W. Martin becomes Wagner College’s 19th president
By Laura Barlament Special to the Opelika Observer Summer, 1973. Opelika, Alabama, population 25,000. A 15-year-old boy named Joel Martin lies on...