I am building a boat ramp and parking lot at the lake at Norton and will be staying there for a month or so. After talking to several of the admin people and some of the students that i have run into there, I begin to see a little of the reason why they are so good. they had a clinic this week. put on by the College at Nebraska. their wrestling room is just really cool, open to visit when I looked in in the middle of the day, no indications of any kind of vandalism or graffiti but very accessable resource. the high school has a tv station so that the local population is aware of how they do on their assesments, in debate, sports, music, etc. the local radio station announces about every five minutes (each time brought to you by a different local sponsor) that the community is behind the efforts of the defending national championship air rifle marksmanship team that is competing this week at the nationals in Bowling Green, Ky..... everywhere you go in that town the people are freindly and are happy to talk about what "their" kids are doing. I think that the reason that they do so well, is that they have a support base in their community the likes of which I haven't seen in a long time. The only thing that I couldn't figure out was how Bubba Sprigg, the all american senior national wrestler and West Point bound all-around buttkicker, didn't get the Senior Class athlete of the year award. (It went to some basketball player.) At any rate, congrats to a model community effort to the Norton folks, yours is quite an effort!