Haysville Sun-Times 05-24-18

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Thursday May 24, 2018 Volume 12, No. 21

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OZÉfest to celebrate all things Aussie By Sam Jack

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Before you know anything else about Edward Fox, you know where he is from: Australia. His accent makes it obvious from the first word he speaks. Fox moved here in 1990 after meeting Alice Fox, a Kansas native and his wife of 28 years. His answering machine greeting includes a hearty “G’day.” But Fox’s pride in his home country goes well beyond his accent and his Aussie expressions. Since 2002, Fox has built and upgraded

the Foxfire Cricket Field, one of the only privately-owned cricket grounds in the United States. Now he has extended an open invitation to OZÉfest, planned for the Foxfire field located south of Haysville. The free party will run May 25-28, with most of the events concentrated on Saturday. “We’re sort of pitching it as, in Australian terms, a bloody big backyard barbecue,” Fox said. “With me being from Australia, we wanted to focus on Australian culture, and I wanted to invite Australians from all over the country to

come out for the weekend. We’ve gotten word that people are coming from as far as Ontario, and from Texas and Seattle – and those are just the ones that have contacted me personally.” The festival starts at 6 p.m. Friday, with barbecue for sale starting at 7 p.m., and games and movies at the cricket pavilion starting at 8 p.m. Kookaburra Coffee, which Fox coowns, will serve breakfast and coffee Saturday morning, and at around 1 p.m. that day, visitors can participate in the

See AUSSIE, Page 8A

Choosing happy

Memorial Day observances planned Haysville VFW Post 6957 will hold its annual Memorial Day observance at 9 a.m. on Monday at Waco Cemetery. VFW Post 6957 will also participate in an 11 a.m. Memorial Day service at Greenwood Cemetery. The Greenwood Cemetery program will include motorcycle riders from American Legion Post 256.

Meaningful life, death for Nelson teacher By Sam Jack

Haysville Sun-Times sjack@tsnews.com

On May 12, colleagues, students, family and friends gathered at Haysville United Methodist Church to remember Kim Hall. A first-grade teacher at Nelson Elementary School, Hall fought against terminal liver cancer for more than a year, undergoing treatments and dealing with symptoms while continuing her 38-year career as an educator in Haysville’s public schools. Nelson principal Mike Mitchener spoke at Hall’s memorial service. “When Kim first came in to visit with me about being given four months to live – and that was maybe 16 to

Martha Tregellas, Kim Hall’s cousin and a paraprofessional at Nelson Elementary, visits with students in the school’s new gazebo. Thanks to a successful fundraising effort, a larger, permanent gazebo will be built in Hall’s honor.

18 months ago – she said, ‘I want to do what I do: continue to teach,’” Mitchener said. “I said, ‘That is what you shall do.’ “She said, ‘This illness will not determine who I am.” Hall’s legacy is visible all over Nelson. Her classes created benches and artwork for the school’s hallways, and they researched and wrote nonfiction books that are on the shelves in its library. Hall launched an annual “Art in the Park” event where local artists come to Nelson to work with students. Next to the playground, Hall created an outdoor learning area called the Owl’s Nest. She wanted her students to enjoy nature, and to learn from the

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Campus High honors the Class of 2018

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Members of the Campus High School Class of 2018 get ready to walk across the stage at Koch Arena, where CHS held commencement last Sunday. Look inside this week’s Sun-Times for our pull-out keepsake with Campus High and Haysville High senior photos, awards and scholarship, and pictures from both graduations.

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