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Kids don't always come up with the same answers that adults would, but that's fine. Says Shawn Ford, 39, a foreign-language teacher who coaches two teams in Wisconsin's Kaukauna school district: "It's sometimes frustrating, but it's also fun to watch the kids come up with amazingly creative ideas." And thanks to the rules, credit for the final product--and for meeting the challenges of getting half a dozen or so individuals to organize themselves into a smoothly running team--goes directly to the OMers. "It really feels good," says John, "to know...
...title of trouper, Hugh O'Connell is a trouper of the Eagle Scout class. As a child he was sent West from New York with a trainload of other orphans. It was O'Connell's good fortune to be adopted by an affectionate couple in Kaukauna, Wis. His foster mother was as stage-struck as he, and when he had not earned his way into the Opera House by sticking up posters for a touring troupe, she usually could lay hands on a half-dollar to buy them both gallery seats. He won a scholarship...
...Kaukauna. Wis. the fire department was informed that four children of Farmer Martin Evers were trapped in their burning house. Firemen refused to answer the call because their salaries had not been paid. Martin Evers' four children were burned to death...
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