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Derry students head to the polls
DERRY — It's not just adults heading to the polls March 9 to cast ballots for what they want.
Students in Derry's elementary and middle schools will cast their own votes for things they would like to see happen in their classrooms.
At East Derry Memorial Elementary School, students will choose what type of reward activity they would like as part of the school's PBIS respect program.
Ernest P. Barka Elementary School students will choose a cookout, a time capsule or a scavenger hunt as part of their voting choices. Other schools will vote on their own choices for fun things to do.
"It is a great introduction to a civic duty and right that we all have," Barka second-grade teacher Mary Ellen Stella said. "The students learn at an early age that their voice can be heard and that their vote does count."
Voting takes place at either Gilbert H. Hood Middle School for Districts 1 and 4, and at West Running Brook Middle School for Districts 2 and 3 voters. Polls open at 7 a.m.
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Woman celebrates 109th birthday
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photos A birthday party for Catherine Dion, who just turned 109, was held at the Pleasant Valley Nursing Center in Derry on Monday afternoon. She was surrounded by many members of her family and residents of the center. She is blowing out the candles on the cake that spell out her name.
Derry's oldest resident was pretty in pink when she celebrated a milestone birthday Monday. Catherine Dion turned 109 on July 26 at Pleasant Valley Nursing Center, where she is a resident.
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