Every time I turn around, I am reminded of how fortunate and how happy I am to live in Sedalia.
After having attended the community preview of our Smith-Cotton show choirs last Thursday evening, I couldn’t help but walk away from the event with an extraordinary feeling of pride in our administrators, teachers, students, their parents and our community. Certainly, it’s not only show choir that offers me this pride (we all know how I feel about football), but it is one of the things I can genuinely relate to, having been a show choir parent in the past.
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