For Lee English Jr., the sound of a ringing phone probably sounds a lot like the roar of a rocket engine test at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. During the 1970s, when 9-year-old English Jr. picked up the ringing phone, someone from the south Mississippi test site might say, “Tell your dad we just dropped LOX.” The caller was referring to...
As part of Virginia Week in the Election Integrity Network, join Cleta today as she talks with Shelley Oberlander, Chairman of the Loudon County, Virginia Election Integrity Task Force. Loudon County has emerged as ground zero for parents wresting control over their local school boards and their children’s education. Shelley describes a similar effort of citizens...
According to the planting calendar developed by The Old Farmer’s Almanac, the last spring frost of the year on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwest South Dakota is, on average, May 22, and the first fall frost occurs on September 22 – a total of 123 days. This means gardeners must make the most of the days they have during the short growing season. However...
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Last year, when Ashley Ecoffey ’19 heard that a group of Red Cloud students would soon attend the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice—the largest annual Catholic social justice gathering in the United States—the news immediately captured her interest. These students would have the chance to travel to the nation’s capital, gather with thousands of others from Jesuit...
In 2023, the Slim Buttes Agricultural Development (SBAG) program on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (founded in 1985) distributed seedlings, tilled gardens, refurbished raised beds, built and distributed planter boxes, conducted workshops about food preservation and how to use food as “medicine” to prevent diabetes, and promoted healthy lifestyles and overall well...