Eighth-grade student Mackenzie Pennell joined her mother Stephanie and Gobles teacher Jim Wiseley for a short segment on the morning news at Fox 17 to promote the walk/run taking place in Gobles on Saturday, October 26, starting at the Gobles football field at 10 am.

During the segment Mackenzie and Stephanie talk about Mackenzie's challenges of living with cystic fibrosis since she her diagnosis at age four, and the many ways it has impacted her life. Teacher Jim Wiseley talks about how Mackenzie is a role model for all of us in the Gobles Public Schools family, and how being part of her life as a teacher has inspired him and so many others to get involved in this event.

You can see the entire three-minute segment by clicking here:

http://fox17online.com/2013/10/21/kenzies-superstars-walk-and-5k/#axzz2iNmyvXsA

A face familiar to Gobles middle and high school students can be seen as part of the special features included on the edition of Schindler's List released in March to mark the 20th Anniversary of the historic, Academy-Award winning film for Best Picture. Gobles English teacher Corey Harbaugh was one of a small number of teachers from across the country included in interviews about the importance of Holocaust education.

Harbaugh was interviewed in Los Angeles last summer about Holocaust education by The Shoah Foundation, the organization created by director Steven Spielberg when Schindler's List came out in 1993. A short clip from that interview was used as part of the special features of the disc in which Harbaugh talks about the importance of showing students testimony of actual Holocaust survivors.

Harbaugh teaches about the Holocaust as part of the English class offered to seniors at Gobles High School. He is also Co-Director of the Holocaust Educator Network of Michigan, and runs a seminar for teachers from across Michigan each summer. This summer the seminar will take place in early July at the Holocaust Memorial Center of Farmington Hills, and teachers Jim Wiseley, Veronica Peterson, and Loriann Harbaugh are participating.