St. Wendel Catholic School

Kids say the darndest things.  And sometimes, through their innocence, they can simplify and paint a crystal clear picture of an insanely complicated world.  That's exactly what happened this week in Ryan Nowak's 5th grade class at Saint Wendel Catholic School in Wadesville, IN.  Mr. Nowak challenged his students to write argumentative paragraphs answering the question, "Should Syrian refugee

A couple of weeks ago, Jaclyn and I went to St. Wendel Catholic School to collect the $3,800.00 Mr. Ryan Nowak's 3rd grade class raised for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.  But, our trip wasn't all business.  In fact, we challenged the kids to a pretty serious game of egg toss that unfolded with all the intensity of a riveting sports drama and Olympic pursuit.  Check this out!

As we learned from Rip Torn in the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!  If you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball."  But as we learned from our new WBKR intern, Jordan Roos, you can't dodge a DOZEN balls being launched by the 3rd graders at St. Wendel Catholic School in Wadesville, Indiana.   This is brutal!  LOL!  And you have t

Last Friday, I drove to Wadesville, IN to visit the 3rd grade class at St. Wendel Catholic School.  My friend Ryan Nowak teaches there and he asked me to come by and talk to his students about St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis.  See, his students are doing a service project and, for it, chose to raise money for the patients of St. Jude.  I decided to share some of my favorite St. Ju