The Daily Populous

Monday September 4th, 2017 night edition

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The first time I saw the movie ‘IT’ I must have been 13 and at the time it changed my perception of clowns.

Those days are long gone, but come September 8 when the new version of ‘IT’ hits theaters we will have an entire new generation scared of clowns.

Now Stephen King has to defend himself because clowns are mad at him.

He tweeted the following in April: “The clowns are pissed at me.

Because of this clown in a fictional movie, the World Clown Association president is upset and blames the movie for the clown industry taking a hit.

The World Clown Association even put out their stand on scary clowns.

“Please understand, just because someone wears a rubber Halloween mask, that does not make one a clown! »

TIL after the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 the debris field stretched from Texas through Louisiana, and the search team was so thorough they found nearly 84,000 pieces of the shuttle, as well as a number of murder victims and a few meth labs.

Authored by theatlantic.com

Ron Dittemore, the shuttle program manager, would be talking to reporters later that day, and he needed numbers and information.

He did not follow the space program and, like most Americans, had not been aware that a mission was under way.

He was in Florida standing at the landing site beside one of his deputies, a former shuttle commander named William Readdy. »

Teacher creates "Gentleman's Club" to teach life lessons to boys

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Every Wednesday nearly 60 students at Memminger Elementary School dress for success and meet for the "Gentlemen's Club.".

He works with at-risk children and over winter break thought of an idea to teach his students life lessons.

"I was thinking maybe if I have the boys dress for success," Nelson said to WCSC-TV. »