Stephen Makes The Paper

This week's Joplin Globe article by our neighbor Jane Drummond is all about our wonderful friend and fabulous librarian Janet Hackney. Stephen is her biggest fan and somehow made his way into the article. Read it here!

Janet has been one of my best buds for years and as the beloved librarian at the K-1 building in C.J., she has a huge fan base. We go out together, and I hear kids from a distance yell at their parents, “OH MY GOODNESS, there she is!! There is Miss Hackney!”

When my little neighbor boy, Stephen Landsberger, started kindergarten a few years back, you would have thought it was the Rolling Stones coming to my house to do a live concert, the excitement was so great that “she” was just next door. He would go home, get cleaned up and come over and look at her like she was the one who put the coolness in cool. You see, Janet is one of those educators who are in it for all the right reasons. She is 100 percent caring, nice and super fun. She has been at C.J. (following teaching several years at Joplin) for almost 10 years now, making kids excited about books.