LMS Multicultural Fair showcases talent
Top, students from the orchestra and general music program at LMS played West African drum rhythms at the LMS fair.
Bottom left, teacher Sarah Farmay, left, and LMS Assistant Principal Ebbie Gore, right, look over the items on display from India.
Bottom right, some of the students dressed as historical figures and presented monologues.
By Greta Burroughs
On Tuesday, Feb. 23, Loris Middle School hosted their fifth annual Multicultural Fair. It was a very successful event drawing a large number of visitors from all over the community.
Ebbie Gore, LMS Assistant Principal called it, “One of the greatest family events of the year. Teachers and students show their work and parents can walk around and ask questions and look at the hard work.”
The event was the culmination of work done by the students and faculty over the last few months. Activities and demonstrations were conducted in several rooms around the school featuring gospel music, dramatizations, African dance and drumming, food and games.
The walls of the cafeteria were decorated by flags drawn by the students in their social studies classes illustrating the various countries they have studied. Different tables were manned by teachers featuring six continents. Rice dishes from all over the world were served so the guests could have a taste of international cuisine.
Sarah Farmay, sixth grade social studies teacher was dressed in clothes from India and had a table full of artifacts from that country. Her husband is from India so she had many items to display and first hand knowledge to go along with it.
Anita Powell and Mike Chandler, LMS math teachers were in charge of the African display. The table was draped in African kente cloth provided by Ebbie Gore. Gore explained the importance of that material, “Kente cloth was woven by various groups of people in Africa. It told the class of an individual by the type and design of the cloth. African-Americans wear kente cloth to keep in touch with their heritage.”
Teresa Burns and Margaret Shelley dished out Spanish rice, Italian rice, rice pudding and French pastries from their European table. Australia was also represented by Deb Green and Sheila Cribb. The rice dish they made was a cold salad that included allspice as an ingredient. Green commented, “We didn’t know there was an Australian rice dish until we found it on the Internet. The allspice puts pep in your step.”
In the auditorium, students were dressed as historical figures and spoke to the audience in character. In one of the classrooms, international variations of the game of hopscotch entertained the younger kids while a gospel choir made up of sixth, seventh and eighth grade students had a large audience in the gymnasium clapping and singing along.
In the media center, African dances from the Angola tribe were performed by the children and West African drumming and rhythms were demonstrated on authentic drums.
There was a lot of activity and fun Tuesday evening that taught students, parents and guests from the community the differences and similarities of cultures from around the world. Everyone present is now looking forward to next year’s event.
Lions baseball now on the radio, Internet
 Loris Broadcasting will carry 16 of the LHS baseball games on the Lions 2010 schedule and will carry all the playoff games should the team make the playoffs.
By Greta Burroughs
For 25 years, Loris Broadcasting has aired live coverage of Loris Lions high school football on local radio. In recent years, their coverage has expanded to include live streaming internet audio around the world. Now they are planning to carry Loris baseball on radio and internet.
Loris Broadcasting will carry 16 of the games on the Lions 2010 schedule and will carry all the playoff games should the team make the playoffs. All broadcasts are independently produced by Loris Broadcasting, Inc. and will air locally on WLSC Radio, AM1240, and worldwide via streaming Internet audio at wlscradio.com and www.htcinc.net.
Glenn Hardee of LBI Radio Sports commented, “No other high school in the country has their baseball games carried live on radio and around the world on the internet. We’ve never tried it before and hope we can get it to work.”
When asked how the idea came about, Hardee responded, “We are trying to get more involved with high school sports. Football has been a great success so we thought we would expand and try some other sports. Baseball seemed the logical avenue to go.”
This week the LHS baseball team is participating in preseason games and the regular season begins March 9. All the preseason games are being broadcast and about half the regular season games will be on the air and internet. “We’re just trying to ease into this thing,” said Hardee.
Lions’ baseball coach, Keith Daniels said, “As long as we are competitive, I am elated about the radio coverage. Any time you can get this kind of good exposure for the ball players, it’s great. It’s pretty exciting for them.”
This is Daniel’s tenth year of coaching and his third year as the head coach of the baseball team. His outlook for the coming season is carefully optimistic. “We have three returning starters and one of them is a senior. I think we are going to be competitive and that is a positive thing compared to last year. We only had four wins last year, anything better than that will be a positive.”
Daniels is concerned about the lack of practice time this year. “With all the bad weather we’ve been having, we have found ourselves inside a lot without much practice on the field. It’s the same for just about every high school around here. It would be a plus for us to get out on the field for scrimmage games. Practice wise, you can never get enough of that.”
Win or lose, the prospect of having the games aired live on the radio and the internet is a bonus for the Loris High Lions baseball team. The players are excited and the producers at Loris Broadcasting are excited as well.
Hardee stated, “Support for football has been great over the years and we would like to get the same interest generated in our baseball coverage. We would appreciate the local merchants getting behind us with sponsorships. It’s just like anything else, it takes money to make it go.”
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