News Anchor, Radio personality, journalist and author-Don Shelby was at the Lakeview School yesterday.
Shelby was invited as part of an event that remembers Emilee Olson-who would have been turning 13. At 9, Emilee was killed in the school bus crash outside of Cottonwood a little more than three years ago.
Emilee Olson's parents, Traci and Charlie Olson have tried to come up with creative ways to commemorate her birthday with her classmates and this year it included Shelby's book called "The Season Never Ends: Wins, Losses and the Wisdom of the Game"
Students have been reading the book and discussing and journaling about the book.
Students have been fascinated with the heart-felt and witty short stories in the book that are mostly about basketball. Emilee was a basketball fan. Off camera, Shelby has been involved in organized basketball as a player, coach, and advocate since 1960. Shelby has been compiling stories of pivotal basketball games—those he has played, and those that have inspired him—for over twenty years. The Season Never Ends includes a lesson that all the fundamental principles of basketball are the fundamental principles of life.
Students 7th through 12th grade at Lakeview recieved the book as a gift from Emilee's family and the Booster and PTO organization.
Along with Emilee, the Cottonwood area lost students Reed Stevens and brothers Hunter and Jesse Javens in the school bus crash on Feb. 19, 2008.