MOKANE, Mo. - Little did fifth-grader Nicholas Staats know when he sat down for his school's assembly Friday morning that he was in for a surprise.
After Corey Pontius, South Callaway Elementary School principal, welcomed students and announced the school's "homework heroes," he revealed Staats was the winner of Callaway Community Hospital's recent Christmas card contest. Staats, 11, received a $100 prize and will have his design featured on the cards CCH sends out every Christmas to its staff, vendors and others who assist the hospital.