{"id":43850,"date":"2016-09-03T18:02:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T00:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/?p=43850"},"modified":"2025-05-07T12:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:27:40","slug":"the-fight-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/?p=43850","title":{"rendered":"The Fight to Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_43856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43856\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/part-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-43856 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/part-1-1-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"part 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/part-1-1-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/part-1-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/part-1-1-41x55.jpg 41w, https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/part-1-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs. Niederbrach completes her last round of chemo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Searcy (LP) The SHS choirs are almost completely ready to begin a new music-filled school year, but they\u2019re lacking one thing: their choir director. Mrs. Tina Niederbrach, head director of the Searcy choirs, discovered in June that she has a type of Colon cancer.<\/span>She is in the process of undergoing<i> many<\/i> treatments currently and has taken a short leave of absence from the school. Niederbrach says, \u201cI may be tired, but I am ready for this battle!\u201d To ensure that her students are not without mentorship, she has asked Mr. David Willard to step in and act as a substitute. Willard is the retired choir director of Cabot public schools and is longtime friends with Niederbrach. He and the students are working together to ensure that the Searcy High School choir makes this as easy on Mrs. Niederbrach as possible and simultaneously make it a musical, educational environment for everyone involved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Senior Kama Morris, the vice president of the choir, says, \u201c(Her absence) makes things a lot harder, but at the same time, it\u2019s rewarding to be able to keep things going while she\u2019s gone&#8230;Although many of us have had Mrs. N for several years, we\u2019ve been taught well enough to be confident in ourselves and to be leaders. Our job as juniors and seniors in choir is to carry on and pass on what she has taught us over the years. Time doesn\u2019t stop when it comes to ensemble tryouts, All region tryouts, concerts, and All State. We as individuals all put forth our efforts to create an amazing choir, just as Mrs. N has always taught us. We\u2019re family. We work together and keep making magic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Though Mrs. Niederbrach\u2019s return date is still unknown, the students continue to make sure that it is as easy as possible for her to get better and return to her job. The choir has already begun sectional rehearsals together for their all-region tryout materials to make sure no one is left without knowing the music. All in all, this choir family is working their hardest to stay strong and work together despite the tough circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searcy (LP) The SHS choirs are almost completely ready to begin a new music-filled school year, but they\u2019re lacking one thing: their choir director. Mrs. Tina Niederbrach, head director of the Searcy choirs, discovered in June that she has a type of Colon cancer.She is in the process of undergoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,134,53,143,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-about","category-contest-entries","category-community","category-features-3","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43850"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43960,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43850\/revisions\/43960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/searcylionpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}