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St. Thomas grad wins Silver Knight award By The Spire Crier Staff Congratulations to St. Thomas graduate Amelia Grant-Alfieri who recently won the Silver Knight Award for Art. Amelia is a senior at Ransom Everglades School and will attend Brown University in the fall. The Miami Herald has presented the Silver Knight award for 52 years. It is a great honor and is given to only 15 seniors in high school who have gone above and beyond in their community. Excellence in academics is a very important part of this honor but the most important aspect is community service. Amelia decided to help preserve the history of West Coconut Grove by creating a documentary based on interviews through the Black Church Oral History Project. She was introduced to the program by her father who is a University of Miami law professor. He runs the UM’s Center for Ethics and Public Service. Amelia’s film was shown at the Bill Cosford Cinema. Mrs. Charlton said she is very proud of Amelia. “The competition is county-wide and this is a premier award,” she said. Amelia loves to paint and her work has been featured in the Lowe Art Museum and at a Coconut Grove gallery.
Volume 23 Issue 4 M ay 2011
Inside this issue:
Food Poll
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Food Festival
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Fiction
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Student Notebook
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Ask Coco
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Quiz Corner
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Fiction
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Navy Seals end hunt for Osama bin Laden By Emily Harrison Osama bin Laden was a terrorist who was the leader of the September 11th attacks on the United States. “They chose this day to attack because the date is nine eleven which is 911,” said Hannah Elliott, fifth grader, of the tragic date’s emergency number comparison. Osama bin Laden did not like Americans. September 11th was when planes flew into the Twin Towers in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and a field in Pennsylvania, in a failed attempt to hit the White House. He came up with this plan and he destroyed thousands of lives. But, President Obama announced Osama bin Laden dead on Sunday night, May 1, 2011. The President had declared his team was going to find the terrorist leader and nine years later, Osama bin Laden was found and killed in Pakistan by an elite team of Navy Seals. The Navy Seals may never talk about their roles in the raid that ended a decade-long manhunt. After they become Navy Seals they cannot tell their families. For safety and security precautions, no one is allowed to know where they are. A girl has never become a Navy Seal. It is a big responsibility and it is very difficult to train to be one. They are the heroes of the world.
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