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Staff photo by Doug Strickland / Two signs, the left labeled Paid for by the Committee to Elect Jonathan Mason and the right labeled Paid for by Friends of Esther Helton, are displayed along East Brainerd Road on Thursda air max y, July 26, 2018, in Chattanooga, Tenn. While the one-of-a-kind race to replace state Rep. Gerald McCormick simmers temporarily on the back burner, the GOP primary contest to f nike af ill the county s other open state House seat is boiling furiously on the front of the stove.Departing state Rep. Marc Gravitt on Thursday endorsed Esther Helton in what he called an outright ugly campaign between the East Ridge City Council member and Jonathan Mason, an Unum employee, for the District 30 seat.Gravitt s endorsement came a day after his attempt to honor a much-respected WWII veteran and a long-time local public official was blocked at the Hamilton County Commissio adidas campus n by what he called petty politics from Mason supporters.The Mason side calls Gravitt s unscheduled appearance a political stunt in support of Helton, who sat with the families of honorees Kayo Erwin and Criminal Court Clerk Vince Dean.All this comes during a contest in which Mason paints Helton as all tangled up with Obama and the Democrats, based on her having voted in four Democratic primaries since 1994, and Helton accuses Mason of lying about her Republican credentials, her voting record and her pro-life stance, among other issues.Gravitt is running fo Dnuv Georgia Civil War camp turns up hundreds of artifacts
Alice Ozma reads the book The Interrupting Chicken to a kindergarten class at Rossville Elementary School on Monday. Ozma wrote her first book abo stanley water bottle ut her experiences with her father, who read aloud to her every night for more than 3,000 consecutive nights.Staff Photo by Jake Daniels/Chattanooga Times Free Press Alice Ozma was right at home Monday at Rossville Elementary School. Sitting cross-legged on a navy blue carpet, surrounded by eager kindergartners, she began to read aloud. In the strong, clear voice of a reader with lots of practice, she read the class selection: Interrupting Chicken, pausing to make sure everyone could see the pictures. Afterward she quizze stanley cup d the class. What are some of the words you use to write when you re in kindergarten she asked.A chorus of tiny voices shouted over one another. He! Is! Little! Make! All the words we know is over there, said stanley cup 5-year-old Logan Needham, pointing to a bulletin board covered in kindergarten-level words. You guys know so many words. You could almost write a book, Ozma said. Ozma had never read Interrupting Chicken, she said Monday, but she s made her way through hundreds of others thanks to a nine-year read-aloud streak she carried on with her father. From the time Ozma, whose real name is Kristen Brostina, was in fourth grade until her first day of college, her father, Jim Brostina, read to her every day. Ozma graduated from Rowan University last year and wrote a book about her experience with her fat
Staff photo by Doug Strickland / Two signs, the left labeled Paid for by the Committee to Elect Jonathan Mason and the right labeled Paid for by Friends of Esther Helton, are displayed along East Brainerd Road on Thursda air max y, July 26, 2018, in Chattanooga, Tenn. While the one-of-a-kind race to replace state Rep. Gerald McCormick simmers temporarily on the back burner, the GOP primary contest to f nike af ill the county s other open state House seat is boiling furiously on the front of the stove.Departing state Rep. Marc Gravitt on Thursday endorsed Esther Helton in what he called an outright ugly campaign between the East Ridge City Council member and Jonathan Mason, an Unum employee, for the District 30 seat.Gravitt s endorsement came a day after his attempt to honor a much-respected WWII veteran and a long-time local public official was blocked at the Hamilton County Commissio adidas campus n by what he called petty politics from Mason supporters.The Mason side calls Gravitt s unscheduled appearance a political stunt in support of Helton, who sat with the families of honorees Kayo Erwin and Criminal Court Clerk Vince Dean.All this comes during a contest in which Mason paints Helton as all tangled up with Obama and the Democrats, based on her having voted in four Democratic primaries since 1994, and Helton accuses Mason of lying about her Republican credentials, her voting record and her pro-life stance, among other issues.Gravitt is running fo Dnuv Georgia Civil War camp turns up hundreds of artifacts
Alice Ozma reads the book The Interrupting Chicken to a kindergarten class at Rossville Elementary School on Monday. Ozma wrote her first book abo stanley water bottle ut her experiences with her father, who read aloud to her every night for more than 3,000 consecutive nights.Staff Photo by Jake Daniels/Chattanooga Times Free Press Alice Ozma was right at home Monday at Rossville Elementary School. Sitting cross-legged on a navy blue carpet, surrounded by eager kindergartners, she began to read aloud. In the strong, clear voice of a reader with lots of practice, she read the class selection: Interrupting Chicken, pausing to make sure everyone could see the pictures. Afterward she quizze stanley cup d the class. What are some of the words you use to write when you re in kindergarten she asked.A chorus of tiny voices shouted over one another. He! Is! Little! Make! All the words we know is over there, said stanley cup 5-year-old Logan Needham, pointing to a bulletin board covered in kindergarten-level words. You guys know so many words. You could almost write a book, Ozma said. Ozma had never read Interrupting Chicken, she said Monday, but she s made her way through hundreds of others thanks to a nine-year read-aloud streak she carried on with her father. From the time Ozma, whose real name is Kristen Brostina, was in fourth grade until her first day of college, her father, Jim Brostina, read to her every day. Ozma graduated from Rowan University last year and wrote a book about her experience with her fat
