School negotiations seek smarter in service with added days
Negotiators hammer out a 2008 09 calendar adding in service days and partial online training to boost reading strategies like SIOP while preserving time for students before February testing. They consider pay structure for extra days, district level versus school level sessions, and a personal day policy change.
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Schwatken
Michelle Ramirez
Educators’ Association
Roni Knight
SIOP
Board of Education
Kathleen Whitley
Ramirez
Whitley
Five-Candidate USD 457 Board Race in Garden City Area
Voters in Finney County face local elections with USD 457 Board of Education choices in Garden City and Holcomb voters electing council and school board members. Candidates include incumbents and challengers such as Jeff Crist Gail Dunford Harold Orosco Bruce Reichmuth Mike Utz Lary Cole Greg Cox Bruce Heinitz Rayna Novack Jay Powers Rob McCallister Tim Miller and write-ins Julie Chamberlain and Tom Schuetz. Ballots also cover USD 363 Board districts and nearby counties.
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Roy Cessna
Challenger
USD 457
John Doll
Doll Spraying Service
Gary Fuller
Nancy Harness
Garden City Community College
Jim Perkins
Garden City
USD 457 Board of Education
Jeff Crist
Word of Life Church
Gail Dunford
St. Catherine Hospital
Harold Orosco
Plaza Medical Center
Holcomb
Lary Cole
Kansas Highway Patrol
Greg Cox
Bruce Heinitz
Sunflower Electric Power Corp
Rayna Novack
USD 363 Board of Education
Nunn Drive
Jenny Lane
Railroad Avenue
Jay Powers
Big Lowe Road
Rob McCallister
Comfort Specialists
Big Lane Road
Tim Miller
Farmer
Anne Jones
Julie Chamberlain
Tom Schuetz
Grant
Gray
Greeley
Hamilton
Haskell
Kearny
Lane
Scott
Stanton
Stevens
Wichita
Student saves shelter during major winter storm
Seal led a Hamilton County church shelter as a blizzard stranded 21 travelers over New Year weekend. She organized blankets, cots, food, and a door unlocked for arrivals, slept in the secretary’s office, and helped students with homework while volunteers aided travelers.
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Hamilton County
Syracuse
National Weather Service
Seal
Dawgs den
Colorado
Mike Keating
Iraq
Academy
Church
MySpace
Living Last Supper drama returns to Holcomb church
The Living Last Supper, a biennial dramatization by Ernest Emurian, was presented Friday and Saturday in Holcomb with about 150 participants. Jeff Starkey led Peter in the production that follows Jesus from foot washing to resurrection, aiming to bolster faith and share Christ’s love with an audience largely made up of Christians.
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Holcomb
da Vinci
Ernest Emurian
Virginia
Jesus
Jeff Starkey
Scott City
Starkey
Peter
Golgotha
Yahoo.com
Mendi Brungarat
Bible Christian Church
Brungardat
Christ
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