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Schools hold Special Olympics-style field day
The Franklin County Schools last month honored all its athletes, of any shape, size and ability, as it hosted a Special Olympics-style Field Day.
Students from both Franklin County Schools and the Apalachicola Bay Chart School took part, in events that included the 100-meter dash, softball throw, obstacle course, broad jump, sack race, hula hoops, and minute-to-win-it games. Lynn Clark worked to oversee the event.
Lunch was provided by BJs Pizza, and the colorful ice cream truck from the sheriff’s office treated athletes to ice cream.
Along with teachers from both schools, athletes included Jacody Johnson, Corbin Langley, Rebeca Sanchez-Carlos, Avery Sinitiere, Isaiah Stanley, Hailey Tomas, Caden Haynes, Shawn Nichols, Brayden Evans, Joe Pierce, Leiry Andres-Bartolome, Daelyn Page, Jaden Dempsey-Williams, Nolan Sinitiere, Alexis Wheetley, Dustin Curry, Jonathan Evans, Vinny Karecki, Josie Smith, Brianna Cooper, Nicholas Cooper, Janalyn Hippensteal, Job McBride, Robert McNeal, Michael Melton, Dylan Love, Laena Dively, Bentley Leonard, Johan Ramos-Flores and Carlos Ramos Flores.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.