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SUNDAY MAY 23, 2021 LIVING B1 903-785-8744 [email protected] Submitted Photo A group of YoungLives of Lamar County participants are pictured during a camp retreat in this undated photo. YoungLives provides teen mothers with resources and a men- tor to ensure they achieve their educational dreams while raising their children. J ust because someone has a great reputa- tion as an actor doesn’t mean that every one of his/her movies is going to be a good movie. Actors work for several reasons. The usual one is because they like act- ing and it makes money. Another is that scripts continue to come in only if you’re working. Sometimes an actor will do a film because a friend is directing it, wrote it, is acting in it, or their agent tells them doing this film is a good idea. Every now and then a great actor will do a film that is a stinker. Such is “Six Minutes to Midnight,” a 2020 British film star- ring Judi Dench — who probably did it because she likes to keep working and she is paid well for doing it. Dench’s role in this isn’t the big one. That was reserved for Eddie Izzard, perhaps England’s most famous transvestite (and actor, writer, stand- up comic and political activist). Izzard, who goes by he and she, is in ‘he’ mode in this, play- ing British spy Thomas Miller, sent to infiltrate a girl’s finishing school whose pupils are the daughters of Germany’s high command. The previ- ous government agent was found murdered. Miller is sent to find out who did it and why. It’s summer 1939, at Augusta-Victoria College located in Bexhill-on-Sea, where a very disciplined group of lovelies are prac- ticing some strange for- mation on the beach. We will only see this again at the end of the film. Izzard co-authored the screen- play with Andy Goddard (who directed) and Celyn Jones (who gave himself a bit part as a local police detective at the end). Dench was hired for star quality and plays the school’s headmistress, Miss Rocholl, who has lit- tle to say. I actually mar- veled that she would con- sider a script so slight in pages assigned to her. And while she may have found the general story interest- ing, that Germany wanted to fly the girls out before England declared that it was at war with Germany, she must have known that the screenplay had holes, the direction was dicey, and that all the action was reserved for Izzard (who at 59 could never have done all that ridiculous running around in an interminable chase scene that took at least a half hour of the film. Carla Juri plays Ilse Keller, the school’s only other adult outside of the headmistress and Izzard masquerading as a sub- stitute English teacher. A former pupil, Ilse has Miss Rocholl’s confidence, but her intentions are far from admirable. She, too, is a spy (they’re every- where). And while she’s been grooming the girls to be good Nazis, she’s also been assigned to extermi- nate them if the extraction fails. TONI CLEM Guest Columnist See CLEM, pg. B3 Great actors do make stinky movies Investing in Young Lives By Jessica Waller Special to The Paris News P rominent femi- nist author Robin Morgan once said, “Sisterhood is powerful.” Evidence of that is alive and well at YoungLives, a thriving Young Life youth ministry in Paris. YoungLives of Lamar County has helped many young mothers from Paris find independence and empowerment through educational resources and fellowship since 2013. “Although we are a ministry, we do not expect anyone to convert to Christianity to receive help,” said Melissa Ragsdale, coordinator of YoungLives. “We just want to support these girls (ages 15-21) right where they are, but not leave them there.” Ragsdale said the num- ber one goal is to make sure young mothers feel unconditionally accepted at all times, and although she will not hesitate to bear witness to “the joy and love of Jesus,” she wants them to know that the religious part of the program is absolutely their choice. YoungLives will go above and beyond to help teens finish school regardless of their reli- gious standing. Ragsdale said she knows “the fast- est way to empowerment is an education.” Thanks to a grant from Kimberly-Clark, YoungLives provides tan- gible necessities for young mothers as well. “We do a diaper drop once a month that helps keep moms stocked in diapers for their babies, but I always make sure to include a little some- thing extra, like cookies for the kids,” Ragsdale said. “It’s the little things that remind the girls how much we care.” Ragsdale moved to Paris with her husband and two sons over 23 years ago to retire and focus on cattle ranching, but after volunteering as a mentor in YoungLives she soon signed on to be a full-time coordinator. Ragsdale goes for a walk on her ranch every morn- ing and evening, during which she takes time to pray about the ways she can continue making a difference in the lives of young women. YoungLives consists of club meetings twice a month where teen moms can just hang out and have fun as well as partake in invaluable resources made available to them through the orga- nization. Additionally, YoungLives finds men- tors for the girls who will always be there for them in times of need. “My job is to pair up each girl with a mentor they have things in com- mon with,” Ragsdale said. “Ideally, we have enough mentors where each one has a single mentee so she can focus all her attention on building that relationship, whether it be through texting, going out to lunch or just pick- ing her up for club so they can get that time in the car to talk about life.” However, right now there are only about 12 mentors and 20 girls, so Ragsdale is “very hope- ful they will find more volunteers by the end of summer.” On the business end of things, speakers and administrators from nearby colleges, like Callie Thompson from Paris Junior College, will bring forms for financial aid and help the girls fill them out so they can map out their own success sto- ries. This way teen moms can prepare a straight path to college or trade school after graduation or getting their GED. One such success story is 19-year-old Yoselin Farfan of Paris, who as a fresh high school gradu- ate is not only in her first year of college to be an X-ray technician, but who also has already found a job in her chosen field at Paris Imaging. As soon as Farfan became a mom at 15, or as she says, “experi- enced love at first sight,” she set her mind to mak- ing sure her son, Ezekiel, would have the best life possible. Farfan sought out the support and fellowship of YoungLives and has made “at least seven close friends” since joining up. “Also, I have learned so much from my mentor about being a great mom,” Farfan said. “Probably the most important skill I have learned is patience. It is a lot easier to have patience when you have a support system in place because of these amazing women. “We know that when you have no support, it’s sort of like a house of cards,” Ragsdale said. “We are there to give rides to work or watch the baby for a couple hours, so these girls don’t have to worry about one little thing derailing all their hard work.” “When I really think of what all YoungLife has meant to me and my son, the word that always comes to mind first is family,” Farfan said. For information on becoming a part of YoungLives, contact Melissa Ragsdale at 903- 739-0760 or mhr0802@ yahoo.com. Lamar County program provides sisterhood for teen mothers Submitted Photo YoungLives of Lamar County participant Yoselin Farfan, center, is seen shortly after receiving her diploma surrounded by her family. YoungLives is focused on helping teen mothers to complete their education. PJC Radiology Technology Program preparing tomorrow’s techs By Julia Furukawa Special to The Paris News Each year, Paris Junior College accepts 20 students into its Radiology Technology Program, giving them the chance to change their life with a career as a radio- logic technologist. Students go through two years of education at PJC to earn their Associate of Applied Science degree and then must pass the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists Certification Examination to begin practicing. It’s a program with high stan- dards, but Unruh said the work is worth it as radiologic technolo- gists get to be a part of helping patients through their care. She said the program is well-suited for social people as they interact with patients on a daily basis. “Definitely an outgoing, people person. Someone very charismat- ic and compassionate because we work directly with patients and family members, we are a step in the patient’s healing process,” Program Coordinator Heather Unruh said. Radiologic technologists work side by side with doctors, giving them the information they need to diagnose and treat patients, Unruh said, which is why she likes to say the technologists are basically “the eyes and ears of the radiologist.” “We work closely with all depart- ments. So we work with nurses in the ER, and then the OR and in the ICU. And then we work directly with the radiologists, the actual doctor,” she said. Without the clear, accurate images that PJC graduates pro- duce, doctors wouldn’t be able to have the information they need to properly assess a patient’s needs. “Our job is very important because we have to make sure to produce quality images,” Unruh said. A degree from PJC and certifica- tion from the ARRT allows grad- uates to grow into specialties in addition to performing X-rays. “You’ll be able to do diagnos- tic X-ray and once you have this degree, you can branch off into other modalities, such as CAT scan, MRI, radiation therapy, mammography,” Unruh said. Not only does a career as a radio- logic technologist opens doors for graduates to grow in the medi- cal field, but Unruh said the truly meaningful part about the job, for many technologists, is that they get to help patients every day. The application window for PJC’s Radiology Technology Program is Aug. 1 through Sept. 30 and finan- cial aid is available. Visit parisjc. edu to learn more.
Transcript of Submitted Photo CLEM TONI Investing in Young Lives
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Submitted Photo
A group of YoungLives of Lamar County participants are pictured during a camp retreat in this undated photo. YoungLives provides teen mothers with resources and a men-tor to ensure they achieve their educational dreams while raising their children.
Just because someone has a great reputa-tion as an actor
doesn’t mean that every one of his/her movies is going to be a good movie. Actors work for several reasons. The usual one is because they like act-ing and it makes money. Another is that scripts continue to come in only if you’re working. Sometimes an actor will do a film because a friend is directing it, wrote it, is acting in it, or their agent tells them doing this film is a good idea. Every now and then a great actor will do a film that is a stinker.
Such is “Six Minutes to Midnight,” a 2020 British film star-ring Judi Dench — who probably did it because she likes to keep working and she is paid well for doing it. Dench’s role in this isn’t the big one. That was reserved for Eddie Izzard, perhaps England’s most famous transvestite (and actor, writer, stand-up comic and political activist). Izzard, who goes by he and she, is in ‘he’ mode in this, play-ing British spy Thomas Miller, sent to infiltrate a girl’s finishing school whose pupils are the daughters of Germany’s high command. The previ-ous government agent was found murdered. Miller is sent to find out who did it and why.
It’s summer 1939, at Augusta-Victoria College located in Bexhill-on-Sea, where a very disciplined group of lovelies are prac-ticing some strange for-mation on the beach. We will only see this again at the end of the film. Izzard co-authored the screen-play with Andy Goddard (who directed) and Celyn Jones (who gave himself a bit part as a local police detective at the end).
Dench was hired for star quality and plays the school’s headmistress, Miss Rocholl, who has lit-tle to say. I actually mar-veled that she would con-sider a script so slight in pages assigned to her. And while she may have found the general story interest-ing, that Germany wanted to fly the girls out before England declared that it was at war with Germany, she must have known that the screenplay had holes, the direction was dicey, and that all the action was reserved for Izzard (who at 59 could never have done all that ridiculous running around in an interminable chase scene that took at least a half hour of the film.
Carla Juri plays Ilse Keller, the school’s only other adult outside of the headmistress and Izzard masquerading as a sub-stitute English teacher. A former pupil, Ilse has Miss Rocholl’s confidence, but her intentions are far from admirable. She, too, is a spy (they’re every-where). And while she’s been grooming the girls to be good Nazis, she’s also been assigned to extermi-nate them if the extraction fails.
TONICLEM
GuestColumnist
See CLEM, pg. B3
Great actors
do make stinky movies
Investing in Young LivesBy Jessica WallerSpecial to The Paris News
Prominent femi-nist author Robin Morgan once said,
“Sisterhood is powerful.” Evidence of that is alive and well at YoungLives, a thriving Young Life youth ministry in Paris.
YoungLives of Lamar County has helped many young mothers from Paris find independence and empowerment through educational resources and fellowship since 2013.
“Although we are a ministry, we do not expect anyone to convert to Christianity to receive help,” said Melissa Ragsdale, coordinator of YoungLives. “We just want to support these girls (ages 15-21) right where they are, but not leave them there.”
Ragsdale said the num-ber one goal is to make sure young mothers feel unconditionally accepted at all times, and although she will not hesitate to bear witness to “the joy and love of Jesus,” she wants them to know that the religious part of the program is absolutely their choice. YoungLives will go above and beyond to help teens finish school regardless of their reli-gious standing. Ragsdale said she knows “the fast-est way to empowerment is an education.”
Thanks to a grant from Kimberly-Clark, YoungLives provides tan-gible necessities for young mothers as well.
“We do a diaper drop once a month that helps keep moms stocked in
diapers for their babies, but I always make sure to include a little some-thing extra, like cookies for the kids,” Ragsdale said. “It’s the little things that remind the girls how much we care.”
Ragsdale moved to Paris with her husband and two sons over 23 years ago to retire and focus on cattle ranching, but after volunteering as a mentor in YoungLives she soon signed on to be a full-time coordinator. Ragsdale goes for a walk on her ranch every morn-ing and evening, during which she takes time to pray about the ways she can continue making a difference in the lives of young women.
YoungLives consists of club meetings twice a month where teen moms can just hang out and have fun as well as partake in invaluable resources made available to them through the orga-nization. Additionally, YoungLives finds men-tors for the girls who will always be there for them in times of need.
“My job is to pair up each girl with a mentor they have things in com-mon with,” Ragsdale said. “Ideally, we have enough mentors where each one has a single mentee so she can focus all her attention on building that relationship, whether it be through texting, going out to lunch or just pick-ing her up for club so they can get that time in the car to talk about life.”
However, right now there are only about 12 mentors and 20 girls, so
Ragsdale is “very hope-ful they will find more volunteers by the end of summer.”
On the business end of things, speakers and administrators from nearby colleges, like Callie Thompson from Paris Junior College, will bring forms for financial aid and help the girls fill them out so they can map out their own success sto-ries. This way teen moms can prepare a straight path to college or trade school after graduation or getting their GED.
One such success story is 19-year-old Yoselin Farfan of Paris, who as a fresh high school gradu-ate is not only in her first year of college to be an
X-ray technician, but who also has already found a job in her chosen field at Paris Imaging. As soon as Farfan became a mom at 15, or as she says, “experi-enced love at first sight,” she set her mind to mak-ing sure her son, Ezekiel, would have the best life possible.
Farfan sought out the support and fellowship of YoungLives and has made “at least seven close friends” since joining up.
“Also, I have learned so much from my mentor about being a great mom,” Farfan said. “Probably the most important skill I have learned is patience. It is a lot easier to have patience when you have a support system in place
because of these amazing women.
“We know that when you have no support, it’s sort of like a house of cards,” Ragsdale said. “We are there to give rides to work or watch the baby for a couple hours, so these girls don’t have to worry about one little thing derailing all their hard work.”
“When I really think of what all YoungLife has meant to me and my son, the word that always comes to mind first is family,” Farfan said.
For information on becoming a part of YoungLives, contact Melissa Ragsdale at 903-739-0760 or [email protected].
Lamar County program provides sisterhood for teen mothers
Submitted Photo
YoungLives of Lamar County participant Yoselin Farfan, center, is seen shortly after receiving her diploma surrounded by her family. YoungLives is focused on helping teen mothers to complete their education.
PJC Radiology Technology Program preparing tomorrow’s techsBy Julia Furukawa
Special to The Paris News
Each year, Paris Junior College accepts 20 students into its Radiology Technology Program, giving them the chance to change their life with a career as a radio-logic technologist.
Students go through two years of education at PJC to earn their Associate of Applied Science degree and then must pass the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists Certification Examination to begin practicing.
It’s a program with high stan-dards, but Unruh said the work is worth it as radiologic technolo-
gists get to be a part of helping patients through their care. She said the program is well-suited for social people as they interact with patients on a daily basis.
“Definitely an outgoing, people person. Someone very charismat-ic and compassionate because we work directly with patients and family members, we are a step in the patient’s healing process,” Program Coordinator Heather Unruh said.
Radiologic technologists work side by side with doctors, giving them the information they need to diagnose and treat patients, Unruh said, which is why she likes to say the technologists are basically “the
eyes and ears of the radiologist.”“We work closely with all depart-
ments. So we work with nurses in the ER, and then the OR and in the ICU. And then we work directly with the radiologists, the actual doctor,” she said.
Without the clear, accurate images that PJC graduates pro-duce, doctors wouldn’t be able to have the information they need to properly assess a patient’s needs.
“Our job is very important because we have to make sure to produce quality images,” Unruh said.
A degree from PJC and certifica-tion from the ARRT allows grad-uates to grow into specialties in
addition to performing X-rays.“You’ll be able to do diagnos-
tic X-ray and once you have this degree, you can branch off into other modalities, such as CAT scan, MRI, radiation therapy, mammography,” Unruh said.
Not only does a career as a radio-logic technologist opens doors for graduates to grow in the medi-cal field, but Unruh said the truly meaningful part about the job, for many technologists, is that they get to help patients every day.
The application window for PJC’s Radiology Technology Program is Aug. 1 through Sept. 30 and finan-cial aid is available. Visit parisjc.edu to learn more.
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