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School boardtalks
Mt. View kindergarten
The Shelton School ::Board, had met with the parent group
after hearing reports from several
members of the administrative
staff and comments .from the
audience at a special meeting last
Wednesday evening agreed to
leave the Mt. View kindergarten
operating as it is with three
classes sharing one room.
The board had set the special
meeting and had asked for
reports from the school
administration after a group of
parents of kindergarten students
appeared at the December
meeting to ask the board to
purchase a portable classroom to
correct the problem.
The problem came when the
state basic education law went
into effect which made it
necessary to have two hours and
thirty minutes for each
kindergarten class.
This means the classes have
to use the gymnasium or library
for part of the class time since in
order to get the required amount
of time in, the classes overlap.
There are three sessions of
kindergarten using the one room,
a morning session, a middle
session and an afternoon session.
The morning and afternoon
sessions are taught by Shelby
Garrison, the teacher who had
brought the problem to the
attention of the school
administration before the parent
group came to the board
meeting.
Ken Gesche, principal of Mt.
View Elementary School,
reported to the board that he
Parenting
classes
planned ...
Beginning January 4, classes
will be hold the first :Thursday of
each month on some aspect of
children in the home. Mason
County Extension Agent Ruth
VanDeRiet will lead these
sessions and the topics to be
considered will be selected by
the group the first few sessions.
after the last school board
meeting and had discussed the
various alternatives, including the
possibility of a modular
classroom and locating the
middle section of kindergarten in
either the Reed Building or the
middle school.
He said it appeared to him
that continuing the present
operation would have the least
adverse effect on the students.
He also said it appeared that
there would be an additional
classroom available next year.
A letter from the teachers at
Evergreen School, where Gesche
was principal previously, was
read by Ralph Erwin. The letter
expressed support for Gesche
and stated it appeared the
problem was an effort by one
teacher to undermine Gesche's
authority.
Kurt Hardenbrook, a
spokesman for the parent group,
stated it was not the intent of
the group to undermine Gesche.
He said the group was not
finding fault with Gesche and
was not trying to go over his
head by going to the school
board.
In a letter to the board, the
group had restated its
recommendation for a modular
classroom Which one of the
parent group said she had been
told by a representative of a
company which handed them
could be in place by March 1.
Allen Hughes, principal at
Evergreen School and Assistant
Superintendent Bruce Jaros
reported to the board on their
finding on modular classrooms.
Hughes stated he had had
experience with modular
classrooms where he taught
,previously, and had visited
Tumwater where some are being
used now.
He said the modular
buildings had maintenance
problems after a couple of years
and recommended against using
them except as a last resort.
Jaros told the board he had
talked to a teacher at Pioneer
school where modular classrooms
are in use and was told not to
The topic for the first session 'act one if there was any other
¢t to do tt
From Parents." Classes will be
held in the extension conference They have acoustical
room, basement of the post
office in Shelton, beginning at
7:30 p.m. There are no charges,
Contract
Is signed
The Mason County
Commission has signed a
contract with Da/ and Sons for
operation of the county landf'dl
and the three collection sites.
I I
problems and maintenance
problems, Jaros said.
The cost, if the district were
to purchase one, he said, would
be about $25,000 and it would
probably be toward the end of
the school year before it was
ready for use.
It's hard
To understand is hard. Once one
understands, action is easy.
Sun Yat-sen
I I I I
Christmas fund
almost to $2,000
The 40 and 8 Journal Friday night and
Christmas fund was just short of Saturday at the PU
the $2,000 mark this week. auditorium. More than
The total collected by the baskets were given out.
Journal was $1,927.60 as of Th o s e w h o na
press time Wednesday. contributions since last
The goal for the drive this were Clint Willour,
year was $2,500. anonymous, $10; Shelton
No. 62, 1OOF, $25;
The fund annually pays for $5; Adolph and Ann Frank,
Christmas baskets for needy anonymous, $I0;
families in the community. Nimrod Auxiliary,
The baskets were packed Ming Tree Cafe, $10.
MEMBERS OF THE 40 and 8 look over the packed Christmas baskets in
the PUD 3 auditorium Saturday morning as they began distributing them
to needy families in the county.
Stolen property
charge is filed
Ronald C. Rushfeldt, 22, 252
South Oak, Orange, California,
was booked into the Mason
County jail by Shelton police
officers over the weekend.
Rushfeldt was arrested after
he walked into the Shelton
police station and told officers
he was wanted in California.
The charges which were filed
in Mason County Superior Court
Tuesday were in connection with
a car which was believed stolen
in California.
Rushfeldt appeared in court
before Court Commissioner Dan
O'Leary for identification on the
charge Tuesday.
O'Leary appointed the
Bail was set at $i,000
Deputy Prosecutor
Burleson told the court
still awaiting information
vehicle from Orange
California
00uto 00epair
1817 Oly. Hwv. No.
For Complete
Auto Repair
call
Olympia law firm of Whitehouse
$3,000 Pioneer bond issue proposed aRnudfHtemathnenhta°ge;epresent 428-31
Pioneer School District voters
are being asked to approve a
$300,000 bond issue for
construction of additional
• classrooms and for improvements
in the present facilities in a
special election February 6.
The proposed bond issue
would cost $2.44 for each
$1,000 of assessed valuation at
first, but would likely decrease
as the assessed valuation of the
district increases.
The committee which has
been studying the building needs
of the district last week selected
the suggestion of fourth grade
student Mike McElroy as the
slogan for the bond issue
promotion. His suggestion was
• "Together We Can."
School officials said the
district has been experiencing a
growth rate of 8.5 percent a year
since 1972.
The district, they said,
presently has 306 students
housed in facilities which were
designed to accommodate 184.
The committee which studied
the building needs has
anticipated that the student
population of the school will be
more than 500 by 1983-84 and
the district plans to build for
that many if the bond issue
JANUARY CLEARANCE
passes.
In addition to the need for
more classroom space, the
district was informed after an
inspection by the county fire
marshal in October of 1his year
that there are a number of things
which need to be corrected to
bring the present facilities up to
standard.
The district was told there
were problems whic had to be
corrected within 30, 60 or 120
days. The 30-day items, school
officials said, have been
corrected.
Those which should be
corrected within 60 days include
repair and replacement of the
substandard wiring in the bus
garage; replacement, of the
underground gasoline fill line and
extension of the gasoline vent
pipe up through the eves to a
height of 12 feet.
The items which are to be
completed within 120 days
inclu de:
1. Replacement of the range
hood in the kitchen with a type
one hood and vent system and
to install an approved automatic
fire extinguishing system in the
range hood and grease flue.
2. Provide approved exits
from the three classrooms in the
ALL REDUCED UP TO
section of the building built in
1952.
3. Addition of combustion
detector shot down devices in
the heating system or redesign of
the system to draw air from the
exterior of the building.
4. Provide every janitor
closet with at least one sprinkler
head and the installation of
alarm devices which will sound
when the heads are open.
5. A one-hour fire resistant
wall to separate the corridor and
the kitchen.
In addition to these which
must be corrected, there are
other space problems such as
almost non-existent health
library in the same room which
cuts down the available use of
the library.
School officials say they
anticipate having to use the
gymnasium for classrooms next
year which previous experience
has indicated is not a good
situation.
The proposed bond issue
would be for new additional
classrooms, expansion of the
gymnasium into a cafetorium, a
new library-learning center and
other improvements.
The facilities would be for
students kindergarten through
sixth grade.
Jessie Schroeder is bond
facilities, food service.facilities *,gteexiegiconagaRteperson,. aad ,
too small, a lack of physical Carolyn Olsen is the bond
education facilities, having both publicity chairman, m
the Title One program and the
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