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Author: Beverly Bidney

Beverly Bidney has been a reporter and photographer for The Seminole Tribune since 2012. During her career, she has worked at various newspapers around the country including the Muskogee Phoenix in Oklahoma, Miami Herald, Associated Press, USA Today and other publications nationwide. A NAJA award winning journalist, she has covered just about everything over the years and is an advocate for a strong press. Contact her at beverlybidney@semtribe.com.

Emma Johns lifts spirits at Haitian orphanage

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JEREMIE, Haiti — Emma Johns traveled to the Caribbean during spring break, but the trip was far from a relaxing beach vacation. She and eight other members of Okeechobee’s More 2 Life Ministries spent March 14-21 in Haiti on a mission to help orphans and residents in the impoverished town

Animals take center stage at Brighton 4-H show, sale

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BRIGHTON — The cold, rainy and blustery evening of March 27 soaked the Brighton 4-H grounds but didn’t dampen the spirits of 76 young competitors who vied for wins with their steer, heifer, hog or small animal at the Seminole Indian 4-H Show and Sale. While friends and relatives encouraged them

Young marksman’s aim right on target

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BIG CYPRESS — Call it beginner’s luck or call him a naturally skilled marksman, but either way Elijah Cook nabbed his first turkey with the first bullet he ever shot from his new Remington 20-gauge shotgun. "I didn’t expect to hit something because I never went hunting before," the 11-year-old said.

PECS second-graders learn valuable library, money skills

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MOORE HAVEN — Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School second-graders learned education doesn’t only take place in classrooms. During an April 21 field trip to the Glades County Public Library and First Bank in Moore Haven, 25 students learned lessons they will use for the rest of their lives. With 28,000 books, the

First-graders explore great outdoors

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SEBRING — Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School first-graders crisscrossed a swamp and connected with nature April 16 during a field trip to Highlands Hammock State Park in Sebring. The group of 33 students journeyed across the boardwalk through the cypress swamp trail, which snakes just above the water. A narrow portion of

PECS spotlights eighth-grade softball players and parents

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BRIGHTON — With help from their parents, student-athletes balance school, team practices and homework. The hard work of the eighth-grade softball players and their parents were recognized March 31 at Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School’s last home game of the season. For the two departing eighth-graders, Aleina Micco and Krysta Burton, the

Hollywood Culture ensures Seminole traditions endure

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Early in the morning of Feb. 27 a small contingent of Seminoles journeyed to the isolated fields of Yeehaw Junction to pick sweetgrass for basket making and carry on a tradition that has endured for generations. The Hollywood Culture Department brought them to Yeehaw, where sweetgrass grows abundantly, to teach how

Doors open at Seminole Casino Hotel Immokalee

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IMMOKALEE — Patrons of the Tribe’s casino in Immokalee now have a good reason to play late into the night: an adjoining 99-room hotel that opened for business March 12. "This was a dream we all discussed," said President Tony Sanchez Jr., who worked at the casino – now known as

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