Students share their thoughts on the 4-Way Test.
Area students read essays and gave speeches on their thoughts illustrating the 4-Way Test at Lima Rotary Club Monday. The students were the first and second place winners of the Lima club’s essay and speech contests.
Alivia Buetner, a seventh-grade student at Elida Middle School, wrote about she applies the 4-Way Test to competitive dancing. Buetner said Rotary’s guiding principles help make her a better dancer, teammate and person.
Analei Jackson, also in seventh grade at Elida Middle School, used great historical figures such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela to illustrate each of the Test’s four questions.
Alexis Ball, a senior from Bath High School, repeated her winning speech about applying the 4-Way Test as she sets examples for her younger siblings. She talked about wanting to make large changes in the world, but coming to realize small changes make a big difference as well, including for her family and loved ones.
Reilie Lyons, a senior at Lima Senior High School, spoke about “saying yes” to things, even when she already has much on her plate. Some people tell her she has to learn to say no, she said, but saying yes continues to make a difference, she said.
In other Rotary business:
Bob Ruehl gave an update on the club’s Honduras sanitation improvement. Ruehl was in the country performing an audit on the project. The $200,000 began in 2014 and is currently slightly behind in construction because of recent weather. The project includes construction of latrines and a sanitation system, to remove bacteria from drinking water sources, and education of families about the need for latrine use.
Carol Russell and Rhonda McKinley earned their blue badges and turned in their red badges.
