Message from Stu

A whirlwind of student activities

It is hard to believe that Spring break is just a week away. It seems like yesterday that we were starting the school year. We are very excited about the upcoming testing in our schools. Principals and teachers are saying that they can’t wait!

The reason for this is that they know our kids have worked very hard and this is a chance for them to show what they can do. The focus on instruction in our school district has been as strong as I have seen anywhere. It has been intense, but my hope is that the results will be directly proportional to the effort!

My wife Kathy and I had the opportunity to attend the Bryan Station High School Senior Dinner Dance on Friday night. It was a great experience to watch our seniors receive their awards and take a step closer to entering the world. The night was a reminder to me that we exist to help prepare our kids to take their place in the world. To see these accomplished students made me very proud of the work our teachers and parents are doing. I know that our future is in good hands. The teachers who sponsored this event are to be commended for their dedication and love for these young adults.

Another highlight of the week for me was the Elementary Vocal Music Festival on Thursday . Students from 22 of our elementary schools came together and sang for a packed house! It was like angels coming out of the sky. Thanks to all of our music teachers for your dedication and hard work. It was a wonderful night.

The multicultural fair at Dunbar High School was also pretty amazing. Students in an after school club came together to highlight the different cultures of the world. Not only did they have displays, but they developed dances, dressed in the traditional clothing of various countries, and provided food that represented different cultures. This totally student driven event is one worth watching as it appears on Channel 13.

At Crawford Middle School the teachers and staff held a rewards program for students who had scored proficient or distinguished on CATS testing. Not only did the students receive certificates of achievement, the school had plaques made that had each student’s name on it that will remain at Crawford so they can eventually bring their own children back to see them. The gym was packed with proud parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and staff. One funny thing that happened was that some of the kids wanted my autograph on the back of their certificates. When I asked the first student what he wanted me to write, he said, “Just sign it Dr. Phil!” Then a bunch of kids surrounded me saying, “Dr. Phil, sign mine too!” Life is so much fun with children around!

This week is our last week of school before Spring break and our schools and offices will be closed. I hope you will be able to spend some time with your families during this well deserved break!

Students shine at Fayette County’s Fifth Annual Technology Fair

Try this vocabulary word on for size – “millennial.” That’s the term for a generation of children and young adults who have grown up with technology and embrace it as a normal and expected part of everyday life. Fayette County is fortunate to have 34,000 millennial students attending our public schools, and approximately 300 of them showed their prowess at the fifth annual FCPS Technology Fair on Saturday, March 18. Free and open to the public, the fair was organized by Paula Whitmer with the help of staff from schools and the Technology Department. Every school in the district was represented, and students showcased some of the innovative ways they use technology. Exhibits featured hundreds of creative ideas ranging from morning news shows at elementary schools to a robotic aluminum can crusher built by students at Bryan Station High School.

These days, students assume more and more of a leadership role in their schools and technology is one of the catalysts. At Meadowthorpe Elementary, students use technology to help put together the school yearbook. At Mary Todd Elementary, fourth- and fifth-graders serve as computer lab assistants, helping younger students with their work. Incoming freshman at Henry Clay High School can get a preview of the school using a virtual tour developed by a student there. Students from Tates Creek Middle School are responsible for a DVD yearbook. Tates Creek middle and high school students even help one of their teachers create Internet-based science lessons using a problem solving format developed at UCLA.

Other exhibits were presented by our community partners Business Solutions Group, Central Kentucky Computer Society, Dell, eInstruction, Fayette Education Foundation, IBM/Lenovo, Lexmark, Tubby Smith Foundation, and WLEX Channel 18. Lexmark and Dell contributed prizes for students at the final awards ceremony.

To see more pictures from the technology fair visit http://teach.fcps.net/stlp/fair/default.htm

Students flex mathematical muscles!

Students from Lexington Traditional Magnet School won first place in the state Kentucky MATHCOUNTS competition over the weekend, beating teams from more than 250 other middle schools. A team from Winburn Middle School won third place in the state.

Individually, two LTMS students finished in the top 10. Brian Fei won first place and Oliver Zhang finished in fourth place. Both students receive full scholarship offers to the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville, and qualify for the national competition in Arlington, Virginia in May. Betsy Rickenbacker coaches the LTMS math team.

Two Winburn students, coached by Devin Onkst, placed in the top 10 and will receive full scholarship offers to UK and U of L: Atanas Golev took ninth place and Tim Cui placed tenth.

Also, Southern Middle School’s Michael Druggan placed eighth in the state individually, and will also receive a full scholarship to UK and U of L. The Southern team is coached by Vickie Nelson.

MATHCOUNTS is a national math enrichment, coaching and competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement through grassroots involvement in every U.S. state and territory. With over 22 years experience, MATHCOUNTS is one of the most successful education partnerships involving volunteers, educators, industry sponsors, and students. The program challenges students' math skills, develops their self-confidence and rewards them for their achievements.

Ride for Kids

Superintendent Stu Silberman will ride his bike to all 54 of the district’s schools during two days in May to raise money for the Fayette Education Foundation, a local non-profit agency established to lend support to our local public schools.

Keep reading Stu’s News to find out how students and employees can support the “Ride for Kids.”

District honored

Fayette County Public Schools has been named a 2005-2006 Super System for Quality Schools by the Council on Accreditation and School Improvement of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

The district was congratulated for its schools’ accreditation accomplishments and continued success in improving educational opportunities for the young people it serves. 541 school districts in 11 states qualified for this recognition, including 51 districts in Kentucky.

The accomplishment comes on the heels of another honor given to the district. Earlier this month, Fayette County was rated as one of the top public school districts in the country according to Expansion Management magazine’s 15th annual Education Quotient (EQ). The EQ is calculated on a weighted scale that measures results in three areas: how well students learn and how many stay to graduation, the community’s financial commitment to education, and the community’s adult education and income levels.

Expansion Management magazine is mailed to more than 45,000 CEOs, vice presidents, directors, and other officers of companies that have indicated they are considering expanding into new geographic areas. This year’s EQ looked at all secondary school districts in the U.S. with an enrollment of at least 3,300 students.

Class offered to teachers

Classroom teachers who are interested in serving as supervisors of student teachers can register for EDC 724: Guiding and Analyzing Effective Teaching, being offered by the University of Kentucky for the fall semester. The class will meet at Southern Middle School on Wednesdays from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. beginning Aug. 23. The course is designed to help classroom teachers examine issues related to teacher effectiveness, reflect on their own practices, and develop strategies to guide and assess the student teachers they work with.

Interested teachers should contact Jackie Briscoe, the Distance Learning Program Coordinator, at 257-3010 before Aug. 1.

We need your ideas!

The Fayette County Public School Board has commissioned a task force to study issues related to student participation in extra curricular activities. The Extracurricular Task Force would like to hear from district parents and students about their experiences with extracurricular and co-curricular activities, including what issues and barriers to participation they may have experienced, as well as what successes students have realized as a result of their participation in extra curricular activities.  The task force will be sponsoring nine public forums during the weeks after spring break to gather comments. You can get involved by attending one of the following forums:

Monday, April 10, Henry Clay High School, 2100 Fontaine Road, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the cafeteria

Tuesday, April 11, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, 1600 Man o’War Boulevard, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the library

Wednesday, April 12, Bryan Station High School, 1866 Edgeworth Drive, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., in the cafeteria

Thursday, April 13, Lafayette High School, 400 Reed Lane, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., in the cafeteria

Friday, April 14, Tates Creek Middle School, 1105 Centre Parkway, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., in the library

Monday, April 17, Community Action Council Fayette Center (Cardinal Valley), 1902 Cambridge Drive, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., in the meeting room

Tuesday, April 18, God’s Pantry, 1685 Jaggie Fox Way, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., in the meeting room

Thursday, April 20, District PTA Roundtable meeting, at It’s About Kids Support Services, 701 East Main Street, 11:30 a.m. to noon, in conference room C

Friday, April 21, Northside YMCA, 381 West Loudon Avenue, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., room TBA

SCAPA claims ninth straight title!

For the ninth year in a row, a team of students from the School for the Creative and Performing Arts swept the annual Kentucky High School Speech League State Junior Division Tournament. The tournament, held in Bowling Green, hosted teams from 40 middle schools across the state. SCAPA posted its highest ever score with top six winners in all 11 competition categories.

The team, coached by Beth Randolph and Debbi Dean, was honored Thursday by the General Assembly in Frankfort.

How to explain the team’s dominance? “We practice like crazy and we take it very seriously,” Randolph said. “Our kids are very dedicated and it means a lot to them.”

A total of 21 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders from SCAPA earned the chance to compete in Bowling Green by stacking up wins in other competitions this season. The school was able to take its top three students in each of 11 category events to the state tournament. Students performed in the first round on Friday, and from there, the top 18 winners in each category competed again on Saturday.

When the team arrived in Bowling Green Thursday evening, students and coaches were up until 2 a.m. practicing for Friday’s round of competition. “It’s become such a tradition,” Randolph said. “No one wants to let that tradition fall.”

The following students posted top six performances in the state finals: in radio broadcasting: Kayla Bryan, fourth place; in public speaking: Ellie Todd, first place, and Nisha Mulay, second place; in solo acting, Blake Sugarman, second place; in duo acting: Alex Early & Tyler Stahl, first place, and Sara Kaufmann & Blake Sugarman, second place; in extemporaneous speaking: Wilson Shirley, first place, and Ellie Todd, fifth place; for interpretation of literature: Liz McElvein, first place, Blake Sugarman, second place, and Susan Creech, third place; in oratorical declamation: Ellie Todd, first place and Madalyn Collins, fourth place; in prose Sara Kaufmann, fourth place; in storytelling: Alex Early, second place and Tyler Stahl, fourth place; in poetry: Beth Bollinger, second place, and Sarah Garza, third place.

Randolph said it’s gratifying to watch the students’ talent blossom from sixth to eighth grade. “They build such confidence. It’s a skill they’ll take with them the rest of their lives,” she said. “Every job interview, every time they have to get up to speak, they’ll fall back on some of the speech skills they learned in middle school.”

Fred sightings

Fayette County school employees are placing a renewed emphasis on excellent customer service. We have encouraged everyone in our district to put those little personal touches on their work by going the extra mile and showing the people we serve every day that we care about our kids and constituents.

We call folks who provide excellent customer service “Freds,” inspired by the book, “The Fred Factor” by Mark Sanborn about a very service-minded postman named Fred. Anyone can be a “Fred,” just by going above the call of duty in serving the public. If you spot a Fred, please call, write or send me an email.

Media Center provides valuable materials, support

I just returned from Fayette County’s Media Center and what an awesome experience, again! I use the media center quite often and Judy Carman and Nell Valentine’s talents are invaluable. These ladies are so knowledgeable regarding available education materials for each subject area. Judy and Nell are using FCPS’S curriculum map to color code each content area and to list the educational materials available for each nine weeks. A teacher goes to the Media Center, looks up his/her content area, finds the color code, goes right to the file box and can pull out a list of the subject area and grade level materials for the nine weeks. What an awesome tool!

These ladies are going above and beyond the call of duty and I just felt you needed to know how valuable they are to the media center. I’ve used the media center to not only help supplement my content area, but to make posters that keep important information in the minds of the students.

Submitted by Karen R. Stayton , Health/Physical Educator
SCAPA Bluegrass

Weekend problem-solver

This past weekend, while watching tournament games, I decided to log on to my school laptop to check my email. For some odd reason my school computer was giving me fits. It would not boot up. I became frantic and was in fear that I would loose all my valuable data that I hadn’t backed-up for a few weeks. Yes, being a technology resource teacher, I know to backup regularly.

Luckily I knew that the home phone number of one our fantastic technicians. I decided to call her and see if she could walk me through a quick FIX for my laptop.

Unbeknownst to me, I was interrupting her wedding anniversary celebration. But being the fabulous Fred that she is, Dana Etter went out of her way on a weekend to talk me through the fix. My laptop was saved and important data has now been backed up.

Thanks Dana, for being a fabulous Fred!

Submitted by Dayna Lykins, Technology Resource Teacher
Fayette County Public Schools

Call for entries

The Bluegrass Community and Technical College’s Peace and Justice Coalition is sponsoring a contest focusing on “how can you help to spread peace from your backyard to our little world.”

Entries can be submitted in the form of a poem, music, play, dance, comedy routine, sculpture, painting, drawing, craft or other art form. Scientific-minded entries may focus on solutions, concepts, plans, or other models of the future.

The contest is open to students in grades kindergarten through 12. Four $50 cash prizes will be awarded and all entries will be displayed during “Our Little World: The First Annual Lexington Peace Fair” at the Red Mile on May 20. Entries will be accepted at Bluegrass Community and Technical College, Cooper Campus, 470 Cooper Drive, in the Maloney Building, Room 221 between May 3 and May 15. Entries from Fayette County students will be picked up between May 10th and 12th; to arrange a pick-up, call Rebecca Glasscock at 246-6319. Entry forms are available on-line at www.bctcpeaceandjustice.blogspot.com or by calling Carol Hunt at 246-6346.

Code of Conduct annual review

Each year, as required by the Board of Education, we review our Statement on Rights and Responsibilities and Student Code of Conduct booklet.

A committee representing administrators, teachers, parents and students will meet on Thursday, April 20th, to begin the revision process. They will report their recommended changes to the Board of Education and approved revisions will be incorporated into the revised Code of Conduct booklet.

The deadline for submitting proposed revisions is Monday, April 17th. If you would like to suggest changes to the code of conduct please contact your school’s principal or SBDM. All proposed revisions are to be returned to:

Gregory L. Figgs, Director of High Schools
Fayette County Public Schools
701 East Main Street
Lexington, Kentucky 40502

This week's Kudos go to...

To the Tates Creek High School Boys Indoor Track Team for placing first in the state at the Mason-Dixon Games held last month in Louisville. The win marks the first time in nearly a decade a school from Fayette County has won the title.

To Tates Creek High School senior Ken Vereen for being named Boys Indoor Sprinter of the Year. Vereen, a senior, won the 400-meter Dash at the Wildcat Invitational with a time of 51.02 – the fastest 400-meter time during the indoor track season. He was also a member of the winning 1600-meter Relay Team at the Mason-Dixon Games

To Southern Elementary School students for raising $564.99 for the Pennies for Patients program. The program benefits area children fighting leukemia and lymphoma.

To Danielle Morrison, a junior at Bryan Station High School, and Katharine Sagan, a sophomore at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School for being accepted to the 2006 National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine. The ten-day program is for young people planning careers in medicine.

To Fayette Coordinator of Instructional Technology Greg Drake for receiving the Outstanding Technology Leadership Award from the Kentucky Association of Technology Coordinators. The award is the highest honor given by the association, which represents all of the school districts in the state. Nominations were received and evaluated by a panel of representatives from the Kentucky Department of Education. Greg was recognized for the honor for his outstanding leadership and contribution to technology in education in Kentucky.

To James Lane Allen Elementary School students for going “buggy” over reading during “I Love to Read” Month in February. Students were challenged to pass 2,500 Accelerated Reader tests with a score of 80 percent or better – they met the goal by passing more than 3,100 tests.

To Crawford Middle School eighth-grader Natalie Pacheco for winning first place in the Lexington Herald-Leader’s Newspapers in Education Design an Ad contest. The winning ad will for LG&E will run in a supplement in the paper on April 18.

To Lynda Short, a Library Media Specialist at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School for her recent four year appointment to the KY State Advisory Council on Libraries. Short has also been named to be on the committee to select the 2006-2007 title for One Book One Lexington sponsored by the Lexington Public Library.

KHSAA Swimming and Diving Championship results

Congratulations to the following students for placing in the finals at the 2006 KHSAA Swimming and Diving Championships!

Boys’ 50 -Yard Freestyle

4th Place – Eric Bruck (Paul Laurence Dunbar)

Boys’ 1 -Meter Diving

4th Place – Bo Milburn (Lafayette)

Boys’ 100 -Yard Butterfly

5th Place – Seth Broster (Tates Creek)

Girls’ 1- Meter Diving

4th Place – Christina Gailey (Tates Creek)

Girls’ 100- Yard Butterfly

4th Place – Kelsey Floyd (Tates Creek)

Girls’ 200 -Yard Freestyle Relay

4th Place – Paul Laurence Dunbar (Team members: Lauren Gates, Hannah Klim, Maggie Pan, and Kristen Wilson)

Girls’ 400- Yard Freestyle Relay

4th Place – Paul Laurence Dunbar (Team members: Lauren Gates, Carmen Pleasants, Hannah Klim, Kristen Wilson)

Students Sound Off, get moving

The following article was submitted by Katie Havelda, a teacher at Booker T. Washington Academy.

Booker T. Washington Academy primary students are participating in an exciting new program that blends phonics with physical activity. Sound Off!, created by former special education teacher Steve Stewart, provides a wide range of fitness and phonetic reinforcement activities, which can be used with any reading program. These activities engage children in basic reading reinforcement activities and address the student’s daily physical activity needs. Children develop their skills in fitness, problem solving and team work as they work their way through this supplemental reading program.

Students complete “missions” to help restore the sound depository at Fort Phonics. “Agent Stewart”, who is in charge of recruiting new secret agents to help Fort Phonics, stops by the classrooms to check on the progress of his “agents in training.” Teachers present a mission that focuses on a particular phonics skill in the form of a PowerPoint program. Students then complete the mission as it is played on the classroom television. Students move for twenty-five minutes per mission while they mentally and physically manipulate the sound they are working on that day. This incredibly creative and engaging program has kept our students moving and excited about phonics!

Sound Off provides teachers the opportunity to get our students moving – within the classroom setting – without sacrificing academic time. The teachers and students at Booker T. Washington Academy really enjoy this new and exciting way to practice the essential phonics skills that we know are the building blocks for fluent and proficient readers.

Teachers Who Made a Difference

Congratulations to the following Fayette County teachers for being honored by the University of Kentucky College of Education as a “2006 Teacher Who Made a Difference.” The program provides an opportunity to thank teachers, principals, college professors, or other educators for inspiring and motivating students to succeed. This year’s Teachers Who Made a Difference are:

Jana Callahan (Veterans Park Elementary)
Tiffany Yerian Cook (Cassidy Elementary)
Lynette Crist (Yates Elementary)
Suzanne Davis (Meadowthorpe Elementary)
Dolly Dressman (Jessie Clark)
John D. Friend (Henry Clay High)
Amy Columbia Goodenough (Maxwell Elementary)
Michelle Green (Winburn Middle School)
Thomas Martin (Eastside Technical)
Amanda Mullins (Henry Clay)
Shirla Ramey (Squires Elementary)
Amber Tongate (Tates Creek High).

Big Yellow Safety

Students and staff at 23 elementary schools have been learning about bus safety this year compliments of “Buster the Bus” and the transportation department. Buster spoke with kids about behavior at the bus stop, bus stop arrival times, school bus danger zones, and hazards like backpacks and long shoe laces that could put them in harm’s way near the vehicle. Students also competed in a “Buster the Bus” coloring contest. Winners of the contest are:

Jalen Creth - Breckinridge Elementary
Sidney Bibbs - Maxwell Elementary
Bethany Grae Chambers - Cassidy Elementary
Alexandra Nosarzenska - Southern Elementary
Kelsey Halbert - Northern Elementary
Lisa Nguyen - Athens Elementary
Cambria Collins - Ashland Elementary

If your school or PTA would like to schedule a safety lesson with “Buster the Bus,” contact Julio Zabala at 381-4505 or Wardy Mason at 381-4317.

Elementary School District and Regional Governor’s Cup competition results

Congratulations to the following students and schools for excellent performance in the District 78 Elementary Governor’s Cup competition. Winners advanced to the regional competition held at Southern Elementary School.

Individual and team winners were:

Mathematics

• 1 Wei Yang (Julia R. Ewan)
• 2 James Toohey (Dixie)
• 3 Christopher Melvin (Dixie)
• 4 Aqeel Jawahir (Julia R. Ewan)
• 5 Cole McCarty (Julia R. Ewan)

Social Studies

• 1 Cullen Smith (Dixie)
• 2 Christopher Melvin (Dixie)
• 3 John Paul Foley (Cassidy)
• 4 Roshnee Raithatha (Julia R. Ewan)
• 5 Matt Hall (Lansdowne)

Science

• 1 Jared Shely (Julia R. Ewan)
• 2 Jackson Lucas (Dixie)
• 3 Jacob McLimore (Dixie)
• 4 Jeremy Robinson (Julia R. Ewan)
• 5 Derrick Fuller (Dixie)

Language Arts

• 1 Annie Summers (Cassidy)
• 2 Cullen Smith (Dixie)
• 3 Erin Murphy (Julia R. Ewan)
• 4 Hannah Sayre (Lansdowne)
• 5 Jeremy Robinson (Julia R. Ewan)

Composition

• 1 Hannah Sayre (Lansdowne)
• 2 Erin Murphy (Julia R. Ewan)
• 3 Judy Brumley (Cassidy)
• 4 Jordan Cohen (Cassidy)
• 5 Tasneem Naheyan (Julia R. Ewan)
• 5 Addison Barrett (Cassidy)

Arts and Humanities

• 1 Alex Carpenter (Dixie)
• 2 Annie Summers (Cassidy)
• 3 Robert Hanna (Cassidy)
• 4 Hannah Hohenecker (Lansdowne)
• 5 Carson Dooley (Julia R. Ewan)

Future Problem Solving

• 1 Dixie
• 2 Julia R. Ewan

Quick Recall

• 1 Dixie
• 2 Julia R. Ewan

The Region 21 Elementary Governor's Cup Competition was held on Saturday, March 18 at Southern Elementary School. Meadowthorpe Elementary School was the overall winner and the recipient of the Katherine Hume Sportsmanship Award.

Quick Recall

• 1 Meadowthorpe
• 2 Athens
• 3 Dixie
• 4 Millcreek

Future Problem Solving

• 2 Dixie
• 3 Meadowthorpe

Mathematics

• 1 Vania Ma (Meadowthorpe)
• 2 Jessie Li (Meadowthorpe)
• 3 Wei Yan (Julia R. Ewan)
• 5 James Toohey (Dixie)

Science

• 1 Christian Wright (Garden Springs)
• 2 Ajay Lingireddy (Meadowthorpe)
• 4 Mike Yang (Meadowthorpe)
• 5 Connor O’Nan (Rosa Parks)
•   Josh Schwab (Garden Springs)

Social Studies

• 1 Collin Laaker (Rosa Parks)
• 2 Kevin Johnson (Rosa Parks)
• 3 Mike Yang (Meadowthorpe)
• 4 Michael DeJesus (Meadowthorpe)
• 5 Christopher Melvin (Dixie)

Language Arts

• 1 Jeremy Robison (Julia R. Ewan)
• 2 Jessie Li (Meadowthorpe)
• 3 Annie Summers (Cassidy)
• 4 Cullen Smith (Dixie)
• 5 Maddie Frank (Picadome)

Arts and Humanities

• 1 Gus Logsdon (Glendover)
• 2 Annie Summers (Cassidy)
• 4 Josh Withrow (Millcreek)
• 5 Alex Gray (Millcreek)

Composition

• 1 Vania Ma (Meadowthorpe)
•   Hannanh Sayre (Lansdowne)
• 4 Rachel Dixon (Millcreek)
• 5 Paige Moscoe (Picadome)

Attention retirees!

Thanks to a generous anonymous donor, the Fayette County Public Schools Retirement Celebration will again be held at Keeneland. A wonderful dinner and program to honor the contributions of retiring employees will be held on May 15th in the entertainment center.

If you are retiring this year and would like to attend this year’s celebration, you must notify human resources in writing of your intention to retire no later than May 1, 2006. To schedule a retirement conference, call 381-4117. Retirements reported after May 1st will be invited to attend the 2007 event.

Leadership lessons from Sam

Light at the end of the tunnel

Dad has really been working a lot lately. For the last couple of weeks I was happy if he got home before 10 p.m. I started to wonder what he was doing because when he gets home he always gives me a treat and the wait each night was almost unbearable. I asked Dad about it and, well, you know him, he had all of these words of wisdom to share with me.

Dad said that it is important to work hard, but as you get closer to your goal it is critical not to let up. He said there is this tendency to relax as you make progress and that is not good. Dad said that there will be time later to relax. He said something about if you stop in your tracks, you will get run over by a train. He said when you see the light at the end of the tunnel it is actually time to pick up the pace rather than slow it down. I said, Work? Trains? Tunnel? Goals? All I want is my treat on time!

Bow wow…