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Sunday, January 18, 2009
Main Elementary students have a limo lunch
BEAVERCREEK — Staff photographer Teesha McClam took a ride with some elementary students who won a lunch and a ride in a limo for being the top sellers in a school fundraiser. Here’s one of the pictures she took:
Main Elementary third graders Camryn Locner, Hanna Purdin and Erica Jones and other classmates check out the limo before they go to lunch at Wendy’s on Dayton-Xenia Rd Monday January 12. A total of 15 students from Main Elementary School were top sellers in the school’s Midland Fundraiser and won a limo ride, from CSA Heritage, to Wendy’s on Dayton-Xenia Rd during lunchtime for a meal. The school raised around $10,000 from the fundraiser. Staff Photo by Teesha McClamSee some more photos in the 1/22 edition of Greene County Neighbors.
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Beavercreek junior embarks on inaugural trip
BEAVERCREEK — Nandini Srinivasan and her sister Malavika will soon have “stories to tell the grand kids,” despite still being in school.
To be accurate, Malavika already has hers. She was one of a quarter million supporters who gathered in Chicago’s Grant Park on election night to her President-Elect Barack Obama’s victory speech.
“Nandini’s sister is who got us involved in with Obama and the campaign,” said the Beavercreek junior’s mother, Sunan.
Now, Nandini is headed on her own historic trip to Washington D.C. to watch Obama be sworn in as the first African-American president as part of the Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference.
“Malavika is pretty jealous,” said Nandini, with a smile.
The group of young leaders left for the capital Saturday and will have a whirlwind tour of the city in four days. Plans include speeches by Colin Powell, Al Gore and Desmond Tutu, a tour of the Capital Mall, and the Black Tie Gala.
Of course, there’s also the inauguration itself, reportedly one of the hardest tickets to get, ever.
“To be there in that atmosphere should be pretty incredible,” Nandini said. “It’s just been a milestone election.”
Nandini said she hopes to learn more about the direction Obama will take as a president from his inaugural speech.
“Being there, I hope to get a feel for how the administration will work,” she said. “Barack Obama has a lot to do.”
The historical significance of the event isn’t lost on the Beavercreek teen or her family. Both her mother, Sunan, and father, Raghu, immigrated to the U.S. from India having never voted in an election because they were too young.
“It’s just exciting for us as immigrants and as citizens of this country,” Raghu said. His wife Sunan added: “It’s the icing on the cake of a momentous part of history.”
Although Nandini says she’ll study astrophysics after high school, she believes Obama’s win will open many doors for many different people.
“For so long the world has been run by, well, old white men,” Nandini said. “This is paving the road for more Indian-Americans in government.”
