‘I Hope For No Guns Or Cigarettes In America’

Thu., Dec. 28, 1995

Meadow Ridge Elementary

We asked North Side schoolchildren to share their hopes for the new year. Here’s what the third-graders in Connie Kostelecky’s class at Meadow Ridge Elementary told us:

Gavin Dee: I hope for no guns or cigarettes in America.

Melissa Bauer: I hope there will be a cure for leukemia because my grandpa has it.

Ame Powell: I hope that my great grandma won’t die because my other great-grandpa already died of cancer.

Kris Weisshaupt: That my mom gets a new job, and if she doesn’t, I hope she gets one in 1997.

Bryan Fisher: I hope to stop the pollution.

Garrett Swanson: I hope that the war in Bosnia stops.

Richie Brock: My hopes for 1996 are that the war in Bosnia would end.

Jessica Karlik: I hope that my great grandma won’t die in 1996.

Lukas Iverson: Because my dad works at the Bureau (of) Mines, he doesn’t have a real job. So I hope that my dad gets his job back.

Josh Domer: I hope my dad’s pinky isn’t still broken in 1996.

Michael Smalley: I hope my dogs won’t die.

Megann Imdieke: My hopes and dreams for 1996 are that my grandma gets rid of her cancer and also that my brother moves home or at least to Seattle, because I miss him a lot. (He lives in Alaska.)

Travis Green: The Probe lands on Jupiter and gets a lot of information.

Karl Schaefer: I hope that there will not be gangs in Spokane.

Brooke Murray: I hope my grandma and grandmpa stop smoking in 1996.

Katie Huewe: I hope my dad will get his cholesterol down.

Sheera Reynolds: I hope that my stepdad gets better.

Kohl Crecelius: I hope that they find a cure for cancer.

Elizabeth Alvernaz: I hope my friend and I can get back together.

Brittany Tyler: I hope that my great grandma doesn’t get put in a nursing-home because she is losing her memory and she broke her shoulder.

Jamie Lincoln: I hope that school stays the same.

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