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New
principal
takes the
helm at
Pioneer
By NATALIE JOHNSON
Marty Brewer began his
23rd year in education yes-
terday as the new Pioneer
School District Superinten-
dent.
Brewer said Pioneer was
the perfect fit for him.
"I was really looking for
the right opportunity to
take that big step into the
role of superintendent," he
said.
Brewer spent seven years
of his career in education
teaching and the last 15 as
a building administrator.
"I was looking for an ac-
tive and involved communi-
ty, a school board that had
a good standing tradition of
supporting student learn-
ing ... I was looking for an
involved, active staff, staff
that were focused on doing
some good things in educa-
tion," he said.
Brewer listed several
goals for the school district
including increased student
achievement, improving
transitions between grade
levels at the school and
increasing student enthu-
siasm and involvement in
school.
After several failed lev-
ies, the Pioneer School
District still needs money
Journe pnoto Dy Natahe Johnson
Marty Brewer is the new superintendent for the Pioneer School Dis-
trict.
"1 was looking for an involved,
active staff"
to repair or replace leaky
and outdated buildings and
classrooms. Brewer men-
tioned raising money and
awareness for the school's
needs as another goal.
"We are currently in the
planning stage and talking
about what the next steps
are, but a big expectation
of myself is to be out ac-
tively involved in the com-
munity, to come in contact
with those folks that may
not have or have ever had
students in our building,"
he said. "My community in-
volvement I think is a big
part of what we can do to
start changing the culture
around supporting a bond."
Brewer also discussed
plans to expand extracur-
ricular activities through
the help of parent volun-
teers.
"There are a number of
folks in our community that
have skills they would like
to share with our students,
and with the tightening of
budgets and having to scale
back our offerings it's great
to have active leaders in
our community that want
to come out and teach their
passion to our students," he
said.
Working with individual
childrens' strengths and
weaknesses, likes and dis-
likes and passions for dif-
ferent subjects will help the
whole district. Brewer said..
He said that an educator's
goal should be to find a way
to connect a student to their
studies.
"When they have that
connection and feel like
they're connected to school,
it opens up other doors," he
said.
All of these goals, Brewer
said, work together to build
a stronger system in the Pi-
oneer School District.
"Meaningful parental in-
volvement will increase ac-
ademic achievement of kids,
when people feel valued and
they're a part of the system,
that changes their percep-
tion of that system and it
creates more ownership," he
said. "We're going to work
together to problem-solve
the issues that we are ihced
with."
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• Surgical consultation
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• Contact lens exams
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Jour/la photo D) Natalie Johnsol
Construction crews at Mason General Hospital (MGtt) worked last Thursday and Friday to lift
the walls of the new surgical wing in place. The hospital's "campus renewal project" is moving
along right on schedule, with the surgical wing set to be "dried in" or roofed and sealed to the
elements, by late fall, hospital administration staff said. The surgical wing's solid concrete walls
accounted for 85 percent of the capacity of the crane construction crews used to set them in
place, hospital director of plant operations Keith Geary said.
Mason Transit plans route ,:."00anges for October
By NATALIE JOHNSON
The Mason Transit Authority
(MTA) will vote onTuesday, Sept. 13,
on several changes to its ten routes.
"We're hoping that this will go into
effect October 10," said MTA Adminis-
trative Services Manager Kathy Cook.
Among the proposed changes, Cook
said, are two additional runs to Route
6, which goes from the Shelton Civic
Center to Olympia.
MTA also plans to eliminate the
12:05 p.m. and 4:05 p.m. runs on
Route 10, and the 7:10 a.m. and 8:19
a.m. runs of Route 4, which will be re-
placed with extra Dial-A-Ride service,
Cook said.
2011
"It's just a different way of provid-
ing service," she said. "By not adding
routes we were able to save money."
With the proposed changes, riders
can only schedule Dial-A-Ride service
pickups between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Currently, customers can schedule
rides between 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m.
"We do this every couple of years,
reassess the routes," Cook said. "Some
of this is based on ridership ... We try
to figure out what is best for the com-
munity's needs."
Mason Transit has also recently
secured grant funds allowing the or-
ganization to keep all of its routes
in service. The funds will also allow
MTA to buy several new vehicles,
Cook said.
"We apply ibr these (grants) every
opportunity we get," she said. "We've
received funding to help sustain Dial-
A-Ride, zone connection, regional ser-
vice and routed service."
With the funds, the MTA will also
purchase new vehicles for its Dial-A-
Ride service.
MTA receives different grants each
biennium. The newest grants will fund
the authority until June 30, 2013.
The Mason Transit Board will vote
on the proposed route changes during
its next joint meeting with the Ma-
son County Transit Advisory Board
(MCTAB) on Tuesday, Sept. 13, at the
Port of Allyn.