Richland One Announces Honors and Awards

COLUMBIA, SC –

Logan Elementary Receives Top Fundraising Award

Logan Elementary School was presented with a plaque by the American Heart Association for its efforts with Jump Rope for Life. Logan raised $4,170 and had the highest student fundraising average across South Carolina for the 2013-2014 school year. Logan PE teacher Tony Aull (left), who organized the event,  and Principal Dr. Richard E. Moore (right) accepted the award on behalf of the school from Heather Ginn (center), the youth market director with the American Heart Association’s Mid-Atlantic Affiliate.

Fourth-Grade Student Excels at Golf Competition

Zantoria Goodwin, a fourth-grade student at Arden Elementary School, recently placed first in the qualifying and sub-regional PGA Drive, Chip and Putt competition for young golfers 7 to 9 years old. She went on to place fifth in the regional competition held in Great Falls, Virginia. According to her very proud father, Curtis Goodwin, if Zantoria had won the regional, she would have been invited to the 2015 Masters in Augusta, Georgia. The family is looking forward to her competing next year with the hope of making it to the 2016 Masters. Zantoria started swinging a golf club when she was three years old. She would practice with her father and big brother Daevon, who currently plays on the Keenan High School golf team. Zantoria’s father plans to build a practice golf course/facility in the family’s backyard, which sits on two acres. He hopes to put in areas for putting, hitting, and chipping, as well as sand traps. “My goal is to give them all the tools necessary to succeed,” said Goodwin.

A.C. Moore Awarded Recycling Grant

A.C. Moore Elementary School is a leader in recycling. The school’s Green Steps Program won a $250 mini-conservation grant from the Richland Soil and Water Conservation District. The grant will be used to create an outdoor classroom with benches, a butterfly garden, birdhouses, feeders and weather station equipment. A.C. Moore also is one of only 16 schools, and the only school in the district, to be fully certified as a Green Steps school. In addition, student and recycling club member Rylee Martindale-Rushing (pictured here) was a winner in her age group in Sonoco’s ReThink Recycling Contest for which she constructed a pocketbook and necklace out of plastics that would have been thrown away.