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Oct. 20, 2010
RANDOLPH — At this month’s school board meeting, Doug and Ruth Preston presented Randolph schools with a gift of $2,500 through the Monsanto Fund.
They chose the school because, as Mr. Preston explained, “It seemed important to me to give to an organization we could invest in the future.” The money would be used for distance learning education — namely, to improve the distance learning room, secondary Principal Dennis Bazata explained.
Mr. Preston said ideally it is best to have a teacher in the classroom, in his opinion, but in this day and age, it is not always possible, and he hopes this money will help enhance the distance learning option. The board members thanked the Prestons who, along with Mr.
Theis, presented an extra large token check to board president Paul Schmit.
The previous Monday, board members spent four hours replacing acoustic tiles that were damaged or in bad shape at the juniorsenior high school. They are almost finished, said board member Tim Kint.
Bazata announced the NSAA has taken over middle school-junior high activities and will allow an increase in events to six for football, 14 for volleyball, eight for wrestling and eight for track. This is all pending legislation and it is unknown when these changes will take place. He explained the increase is most likely an effort to compete with club sports, which are popular in larger cities.
Bazata advised he is now a member of the Faith Regional Health Services Sports Medicine Advisory Committee.
Parent-teacher conferences at the junior-senior high school were attended by about 66 percent of the parents, said Bazata, something he considers “terrific.” He noted a mock disaster was conducted at the school by the Cedar County Emergency Management, and a teacher in-service covered topics of school improvement, MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) testing-reporting and crisis team training. The pads on the front of the stage have been replaced, Bazata added.
Elementary Principal Jane Brummels announced MAP testing is being finished this week. The data gathered will help teachers for instruction purposes. She announced the parent turnout was 90 percent for parent-teacher conferences and, after some rescheduling appointments are fulfilled, the percentage should be even higher. Last week, six elementary students attended a leadership conference at Wayne State College with Marcia Wakely, the district’s guidance counselor. Red Ribbon Week activities for drug awareness are planned.
Oct. 20, 2010
RANDOLPH — Randolph Volunteers are busy raising funds to purchase a new rescue unit. The current rescue unit that services the area of Randolph is showing its age and starting to need repair and services on a routine basis.
It is also proven to have been many times when two units were needed to meet the needs of the Randolph community.
The plans are to continue to raise funds until a new unit can be purchased, and then keep the present unit as a second unit for those times Randolph is in need of additional services. At this time Randolph is the only city in Cedar, Wayne and Pierce counties with only one rescue unit. The Randolph rescue unit has a large number of professionally-trained volunteers and responds to over 100 calls per year.
Please join in on some of this fundraising by attending the Pancake Breakfast being held Oct. 24, 8 a.m. to noon. This is a free will donation event. The volunteers of the Rescue Squad are also selling chances on a queen size quilt. Chances are being sold at $1 each or 6 for $5.
The last chance to buy these tickets will be at the pancake feed with the drawing Oct. 24. This quilt was made by Jolee Clausen, a 15-year-old sophomore at Randolph High School. She has been quilting for nine years. Jolee is the daughter of Randolph Volunteer Rescue members Clint and Amie Clausen. The quilt shows a beautiful color arrangement of blues and browns.
