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“I used to be the largest dairy consumer on the planet. I used to eat so much dairy and meat. The more that I looked into the dairy industry, the more that I saw that it was the singular, most inhumane industry on the planet, that we've all been lied to, including myself, for years. I always believed that the picture on the milk carton, the cow standing next to her calf in the green field with the red barn in the back was true. It’s certainly the complete opposite.” – Richard (Kudo) Couto Richard (Kudo) Couto is the founder of Animal Recovery Mission (ARM), an organization solely dedicated to investigating extreme animal cruelty cases. ARM has led high-risk undercover operations that have resulted in the shutdown of illegal slaughterhouses, animal fighting rings, and horse meat trafficking networks. Recently, they released a damning investigation into two industrial dairy farms outside of Phoenix, Arizona supplying milk to Coca-Cola’s Fairlife brand. What they uncovered was systemic animal abuse, environmental violations, and a devastating betrayal of consumer trust. While Fairlife markets its products as being sourced "humanely," ARM’s footage tells a very different story—one of suffering, abuse, and corporate complicity. Despite the evidence, this story has been largely ignored by mainstream media—likely due to Coca-Cola’s massive influence and advertising dollars.…
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Your Story Matters brings Mason's rich culture to life through story. You'll hear stories from staff, students, and community members designed to celebrate diversity, passion, and purpose. Our stories weave our commUNITY together - let's listen and connect!
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Your Story Matters brings Mason's rich culture to life through story. You'll hear stories from staff, students, and community members designed to celebrate diversity, passion, and purpose. Our stories weave our commUNITY together - let's listen and connect!
This week’s #YourStoryMatters podcast features Curt Bly, Mason High School’s Varsity Baseball Coach who has taught English to MHS seniors for the last 22 years. Bly shares how he and his family are navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, and some of the ways he is leaning on #CometCulture lessons when helping his students and players process the loss that comes from a school year cut short, and a baseball season cancelled. “There are things that happen in our life that are true perspective-creating events.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsyourstorymatters/message…
Fatma Elmaery, Shaimaa Garaween and Brandi Holmes helped found the Lunar Moms, a group of Muslim-American Mason City Schools Moms. The Lunar Moms have spear-headed several efforts to give back to the schools through the Mason Schools Foundation, hosting a CommUNITY Iftar sponsored by Diversity Council, and providing children's books and resources to Mason teachers. This episode of the Your Story Matters podcast was recorded before our country was impacted by COVID-19. A lot has changed since then - including the ability to hold the Diversity Council sponsored CommUNITY Iftar this year. For all of our neighbors who are preparing this week to enter the month-long holiday of Ramaddan, we know it will be different when breaking fast without friends and extended family. We wish you and all of our listeners good health. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsyourstorymatters/message…
This week’s #YourStoryMatters podcast features Jeff Schlaeger, Mason High School’s School Psychologist and SIBS advisor. Jeff shares stories of the people in his life who have made his passion for “saying something” about suicide very personal, and how proud he is to work with students who are ending the stigma around talking about mental health. As a dad of a recent graduate and a high school senior, Jeff shares how he and his family are navigating the COVID-19 pandemic - including how they are celebrating Passover during this time of social distancing. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsyourstorymatters/message…
This week’s #YourStoryMatters podcast features Mason High School Class of 1986’s Kevin Peyton, the Executive Director of Joshua’s Place - one of the district’s partners in providing holiday help and food assistance to families in need. Kevin shares the quick pivot that happened as the organization understood how the COVID-19 pandemic would particularly challenge families in poverty, and provides information about a new win-win opportunity to support our local businesses and families in need with the Comet Carry Out. Kevin also pastors a local church, and like billions of Christians around the world is preparing to celebrate the holiest of Christian holidays during this time of social distancing. He shares that while the sacraments will be different, he is embracing that this is a point of time and to remain focused on what Easter really means. Kevin and his wife, Nona, started dating in 8th grade and are the proud parents of two adult children, and a much loved grandson. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsyourstorymatters/message…
This week’s #YourStoryMatters podcast features Mason Intermediate School teacher Amy Boynton. Amy has been teaching Mason sixth graders math for the last 17 years. She and her husband, Brian, are the proud parents of two children Ella & Axel. Ella was diagnosed with leukemia a week before her second birthday, and the family is passionate about raising funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsyourstorymatters/message…
For 13 years, Lenka Crawshaw has been serving Mason English Language Learners and their families as an ESL Aide. Originally from Chile and trained as a midwife, Lenka moved to the United States as an adult and married her ESL tutor. She and husband have been married for 25 years, and are the proud parents of 4 Mason High School graduates. The Crawshaws love serving the community, and in their spare time enjoy biking, yoga, playing pickleball and euchre, and salsa dancing. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsyourstorymatters/message…
This week's #YourStoryMatters podcast features Mason Early Childhood Center first grade teacher BJ Smallwood. BJ's calling to be an educator happened after experiencing it. He wanted to go into sports broadcasting and loved an internship with Fox Sports. As a college student wanting to earn some extra money, he picked up a job at Miami University's daycare, and the rest is history. After student-teaching in Mason, he's been impacting his students and colleagues' lives for the last 17 years as a Comet. The Dad of two Comets is grateful to tell people he "Gets to go to school, not I have to go to work." "There was never, ever a time I thought I'd be a teacher" --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsyourstorymatters/message…
This week's #YourStoryMatters podcast features Mason High School senior Quinn Robinson. Quinn is a star on the school's competitive jump rope team, the Comet Skippers, an active member of SIBS and NHS, and one of the founding members of the school's Hope Squad. She and her classmates are encouraging community members to attend a special event on February 27 with Kate Fagan, New York Times best-selling author of What Made Maddy Run, who will share how achievement culture affects teens, as well as the need to increase communication on the transition from high school to college. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsyourstorymatters/message…
Mason High School Child Nutrition Kitchen Manager Sarah Burkhart is a face many students look forward to seeing each day. Not only does she oversee making sure that 3500 high school students are fed lunch in an hour and half - but she has a gift for really seeing people, and being there for kids who need someone in their corner. Sarah is a biracial single mom of three Mason Comets, and serves on the school's Inclusive Excellence Team. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsyourstorymatters/message…
Dr. Littisha Bates serves as an Associate Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Affiliate of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where she is a co-founder and executive board member of the Black Faculty Association. Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, Littisha and her husband, Juan, are now raising three Comets. Littisha shares how important it is for marginalized peoples to have affinity groups, and is excited about how the district's Culture and Inclusive Excellence work impact our children and community. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsyourstorymatters/message…
MHS Social Studies teacher Dan Broaddrick shares some of the trauma from his childhood, and the impact that had on his life and choices. As an adopted child, he struggled with his identity and issues of abandonment. His Christian faith and relationship with his wife, MHS math teacher Tina Broaddrick, helped him heal and find purpose in helping others. Dan and Tina are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, and are the proud parents of two children - a biological son, and a daughter originally from Ethiopia who they adopted. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsyourstorymatters/message…
Mason Intermediate fifth graders Chloe Zhang and Amy Wang share their experiences as first-generation Chinese-American girls growing up in Mason. The girls are excited about their Lunar New Year celebrations. (The Year of the Rat begins on January 25, 2020.) Both girls look forward to receiving lucky "red pockets" which contain money, and eating lucky foods like dumplings. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsyourstorymatters/message…
Mason Elementary School teacher Eryn Kramer is a energetic, enthusiastic, and joyful advocate for her students in the Social Communications and School Fundamentals Classroom. She shares that she has always had "big feelings" and that she often felt very average in school. Growing up, some of Eryn's best friends had disabilities. Those friendships and connections shaped Eryn in profound ways and she believes she landed her "dream job" when she was hired in Mason in two years ago. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsyourstorymatters/message…
When Charles Galvin was elected to the Board of Education in November 2017, he became the school board’s first millennial member. He and his wife, Natalie, are the joyful (and sleepy!) parents of two future Comets under the age of 4. An avid believer in this year’s Mason #CommUNITY Read, Atomic Habits by James Clear, Charles has been working to intentionally build habits that ensure he’s present with his family. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsyourstorymatters/message…
Sonia Milrod’s parents were among the 20,000 European Jews who survived the Holocaust by escaping to Shanghai, China. Sonia tells the amazing story of their very different journeys, and regularly shares their story at the Cincinnati Holocaust & Humanity Center, located in Union Terminal. In the early 2000s, Sonia was an Assistant Superintendent in Mason City Schools where she helped launch our English as a Second Language program. A 16-year resident of Mason, she retired last year from the Mayerson Academy after 48 years in education. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mcsyourstorymatters/message…
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