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On Thursday, December 17th Morgantown Elementary School will be hosting their first Sharpen the Saw day. This day will be filled with various activities including Gingerbread houses, Ornament Making, Movie & Popcorn, Baking/Cookie Decorating, Basketball Drills, Christmas Cards, Caroling, and Weather. This will be a fun filled event allowing students to put into practice one of The Leader in Me’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Habit 7, Sharpen the Saw.  Sharpen the Saw means preserving and enhancing the greatest asset we have--ourselves.

Morgantown Elementary honored their Leaders of the Week.  Congratulations to the following students:
Abel Guerrero, Jackson Graham, Braxton Wooldridge, Leah Coin, Lee Logsdon, Harley Proctor, Aaron White, MaKaylah Williams, Luz Briseneo, Camden Wilson, Stephen Bastin, Brooklyn Blankenship, Landis Merritt, Harlie Clark, Ethan Hinkle, Tucker DeJarnette, Trevor Deweese, Maggie Childers, Reed Noble, Cameron Porter, Destinee Baker, Irvin Sanchez, Steven Lewis, Haley May, Andrew Gill, Sydney Pedigo, Jakob Cunagin, and Hailey Hoffman.

The Christmas season is such a wonderful time of year and the elders, stakeholders, and family members of Morgantown Care and Rehab Center are embracing every bit of it. 

Angela D. Odle McDaniel of Snellville, Georgia  and Russell W. Odle  of Morgantown, KY invite you to join in celebrating their parents  50th wedding anniversary.
The event will Dec. 26, 2015 at the Cool Springs General Baptist Church from 2 to 4 PM.
The former Jennifer Jones and Carson L. Odle were married at the home of the bride's parents Ray and Elizabeth Jones  on Dec. 26, 1965.  The ceremony was performed by Rev. Nathan Sauders.

Smiles and good cheer were plentiful on Saturday, December 5, at the Morgantown Care and Rehabilitation Center (M.C.R.C.). 

Friday night, December 4, citizens of Rochester attended a Christmas celebration at the Rochester Community Building.  After invocation, there were soups, sandwiches, hot dogs, drinks and desserts served. 

On this evening, the new Rochester Methodist Church pastor Mark Gibbons blessed us by singing what happens to be my favorite Christmas hymn, “O Holy Night”. 

Imagine a life where in the year you were born the Titanic struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage taking over 1500 lives, and Teddy Roosevelt was shot while campaigning for president.  As you reflect back you can remember historical events such as what it was like to live during The Great Depression, recall the catastrophe of Pearl Harbor, and feel the devastation when both John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated.  For one elder at Morgantown Care and Rehab Center she is able to do just this.

KSDAR Kentucky State Regent, Barbara Glass Zink from Marion County, KY, attended the Butler County Chapter NSDAR Festival of Trees on Friday, Dec. 4.  Vice Regent, Linda Wood of the Butler County Chapter, took her through the tour.  Mrs. Zink was impressed with all the different ideas the people had for their decorating. This was her third time to visit the annual Festival of Trees display. Several members of the Butler County Chapter DAR took Mrs. Zink to lunch before she had to leave.

As part of the Leader In Me program, Morgantown Elementary recognized their Leaders of the Week and Classes of the Week during Fantastic Friday.

Classes of the Week
Library Class of the Week- Mrs. Stokes
Music Class of the Week- Mrs. Weathers
P E Class of the Week- Mrs. Amos
Art Class of the Week- Mrs. K. McKinney
7 Habits Class of the Week- Mrs. Donaldson

Morgantown Elementary teachers attended a Leadership Day at Highland Elementary School on Monday, December 1, 2015. Highland Elementary is in their 2^nd year of the Leader in Me Program.