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Security changes planned at Smith-Green schools |
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Thursday, November 08 2007 |
By CHRIS MEYERS
Staff writer
As part of ongoing changes to security at Smith-Green Community Schools, more features will be added in the near future to the rear of the main school building.
Several cameras were recently installed at the school and traffic flows were rerouted to enhance security.
Along with those changes, all doors at the school are to be locked so visitors have to enter the front door and report to the main office.
Adam Skiles, information technology director for SGCS, told the board of school trustees at their Monday meeting of the upcoming changes to the rear of the building.
No specifics were given about what would be changed.
The traffic flows were recently changed so that all students must be dropped off at the front of the building. Students can still be picked up in the rear of the building.
School officials worked with Churubusco police to help ensure the easiest transition to the new traffic patterns.
Town Marshal John Hart had said at a past town council meeting that the change had gone surprisingly well and had caused little traffic problems after its first couple of days in use.
In other business, the board started a new monthly tradition of naming a teacher of the month at board meetings.
The first teacher to receive the recognition was Wendy Sieber, a sixth grade social studies teacher.
She has been with Churubusco Middle School for the past five years and is co-sponsor of the middle school student council, yearbook advisor and coordinator for the tutoring program.
“Wendy is an all-star teacher at our school … she is an incredibly innovative teacher,” said John Davis, principal of the middle school.
The board also heard from a parent with an autistic child who praised the school district’s program for her child and others with intensive needs.
Heather Ostrowski said the program was well worth keeping at the school because her son and other children are making great strides in progress by being able to be in the same building as their friends and receive care in their hometown.
“I’m very grateful he has been able to receive care in his community … he’s really starting to make strides,” she said.
She said she is worried about the longevity of the program and urged board members to do all they can to ensure it stays at the school. |
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Salad, to die for. The year she passed away I had tried my mother-in-laws and others
but never the same as my Mom's. A year had went by and I had Looked and Looked for
her recipe in her old fashion Tin recipe box. Could not find it. I thought, wow was
this like her Famous Potato Salad, In her head and never wrote down. Silly I know
But as I searched thru her tin recipe box again, I made sure I put each hand wrote
card back where she had kept it. I wanted to make sure it was Just like my mom had
always had it and left it. I kept look one at a time, And low and behold stuck
between two cards was the recipe, I sat and held it as the tears ran down my face. I
had found it and was finally going to have Mom's Cranberry Salad. I called My Dad,
Cecil and said over 20 times, " Dad I found it Dad I found it!" I then prayed and
ask Mom, OK come on help me make this just like you did. And I guess Mom heard
me cause the 2nd and 3rd Thanksgiving without my Mom I had "Mom's Cranberry
Salad" and I will again this year and years to come. Thanks Mom I love you- Sheryl
xoxo P.S. You ask? Well share this recipe.... Umm, I
think NOT, Took me to long to find it. - Sheryl Hackett (Churubusco, IN) My late grandmother, Margarette Ruthsatz always made
scalloped oysters for the holidays. The recipe would be similar to scalloped corn
but instead of corn,oysters.We always hoped for left-overs and often would sneak it
cold from the fridge! Someone brings this dish every year. - Pam Sorg (Columbia City, IN) I love Thanksgiving. All my family get together at my mom and
dad's. My daughters and I usually go early to help Mom get the dinner ready, but she
does most of it. We eat about one and are all stuffed. After clean up we wait for
the paper so my sister and I can scope out all the sales for the next day which we
call Jackie and Laura's Big Adventure. It is the one day that we just spend time
together and are amused with all the shoppers going crazy for that perfect Christmas
gift. - Jackie White (Columbia City, IN) |
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