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Vol. 18, No. 7
November 3, 2021
100 years pg. 5
Sports pg. 13
TOOL TIME RHS skills-trades teacher honored with $50,000 Harbor Freight Tools Teaching Excellence award By Rob Zolman / Valley Journal
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RONAN — A skills-trades teacher from Ronan High
School was recently named winner of the 2021 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence, receiving $50,000 as part of a $1 million prize award given to teachers nationwide. On Monday, Oct. 25, in a surprise all-class assembly held in the RHS gymnasium, agricultural mechanics instructor w w w.va l le yj our na l.net
Casey Lunceford was presented a check for $50,000 joining 14 other national prize winners, and three Grand Prize winners, who each received $100,000 as part of the annual award. As part of the prize, Lunceford – the very first ever finalist from Montana – will be awarded personally $15,000 and a customized U.S. General mechanics
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tool cart, while $35,000 will be allocated to the RHS agricultural mechanics program. Lunceford has been teaching agricultural mechanics at RHS for the last three years and also serves as an officer in the Montana Association of Agriculture Educators and Vice President see page 2