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Raytown Veterans Honored Tribute and Thank You to Our Veterans took place on Sunday, November 9, 2014, sponsored by the Raytown Arts Council, Raytown Council on Aging, Raytown Retired Teachers Association and the Marguerite McNair Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution. The program led by Alyse Stoll, opened with a color guard and included words of reflection by Mayor David Bower
and State Representative, Tom McDonald. The Raytown Community Symphonic Band conducted by Eric Eckhoff gave a powerful performance of America’s favorite patriotic songs. Noel Fulkerson led the Kansas City Men’s Chorus to pay a moving choral tribute to veterans. Veterans were invited to set up appointments to record their service stories. Continued on page 2
Mayor David Bower and WWII veteran, Carl Laterra who served in the Navy and Air Force from 1943-1953 and served 10 more years in the reserves
Raytown South Gets Footloose By Diane Krizek Editor To our delight, Raytown South High School Theatre presented its fall musical, “Footloose”, from November 6 to 8, 2014. Performers played to nearly a full house on Saturday night. This stage adaptation of the 1984 film starring Kevin Bacon
tells the story of Ren McCormack and his mother who are abandoned by Ren’s father and are forced to move from Chicago to a small town. Ren quickly discovers that dancing and rock music have been banned by city ordinance due to the heavy handed influence of Reverend Shaw Moore. Ren
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Cole Foster and Brent Martin
Left to right: Jacquelyn Price, Tristan Clemons, Cole Foster and Lauren Douglas
Raytown State Swim Team Wins All-State Honors By J. Robert Atkins On November 7 and 8, 2014, members of Raytown’s Swim and Dive State Team competed in the annual Missouri State High School Swim Meet at the St. Peters Rec-Plex in St. Peters, MO. Over 60 schools from all over the state of Missouri brought their best swimmers to compete in this two day event. Raytown placed 28th overall with All-State Honors going to the State Team comprised of four student athletes: Seniors, Tristen Caudle and Grant Myers, Junior Braden Best and Sophomore Jordan Atkins for their performance in the 200 Free Relay. The State Team were honored at the School Board meeting on Monday, November 10. The team coaches are Jim Aziere (head), George Halsey (divers) and Joe Farrand (assistant). “This is my 50th year coaching high school with 41 years spent here in Raytown. For the past 40 years straight, our teams have
gone to state and we last won AllState Honors in 2008,” said Aziere. “Since 1974, our overall record has been 485 wins and 82 losses.” In order to compete in the meet, swimmers have to swim at or under the state posted times in any of the 12 events. Raytown High had swimmers competing in six events, the 50 Free, 100 Free, 100 Breast, 200 Medley Relay, 200 Free Relay and the 400 Free Relay. In addition to the State Team, the alternates were Junior Nathan Verhulst, Sophomore Devin Fiene, and Freshmen Fred Farrand and Blake Tuder. The coaching team is Jim Aziere (head coach), George Halsey (divers) and Joe Farrand (assistant). During the preliminaries, the State Team posted a time of 1:30.52, just short of posting a new school record. Their finals time of 1:31.52 earned them an overall eighth place medal in the event. Caudle also received Honorable Mention AllState for taking 15th overall in the 100 Free, posting a finals time of
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State Swim Team, left to right Tristen Caudle, Grant Myers, Jordan Atkins and Braden Best