Dave Fairchild Named Interim Superintendent for Worth County

Dave Fairchild of Hamilton was named interim superintendent for Worth County and will serve out the remainder of the school year. Matt Martz, who the board hired in March as a full-time superintendent, will then take over at the beginning of July. Fairchild attended his first Board of Education meeting Wednesday night. He will be at the school on Mondays and Wednesdays. He said at the meeting that he was impressed with the students and staff of the school since taking over and that everyone had been really helpful in getting him started. Last Wednesday's Board of Education meeting was moved back to the Superintendent's office.

Vonda Runde, 3rd grade teacher, reported that her class wrote a poetry book and put it together. She said they were working on words of the week and they also wrote a book about the sea, with each student being assigned a different aquatic animal. Jackie Findley and Patti Lischer also presented to the board.

Abbey Morin and Abby Sweet came to the meeting to request that the school renew sponsorship of the dance team. Morin said that they had been working a lot of concession stands to raise money so that they will not have to use school funds. She said that they were planning to buy new uniforms with their own funds. She said that they were having a choreographer from St. Joseph come up to teach them routines and that they were going to have a bounce house at Old Defiance Days this year in Sheridan. She said there had been a lot of interest in joining the squad for its second year.

Assistant Principal Chuck Borey reported that the boys track team was 7th and the girls 19th at state this year. He said there were some good results on both sides. He said that the Elementary Track Meet went well and that several records fell.

Principal Jon Adwell reported that around 200 grandparents showed up for Grandparents' Day at the school. They served lunch at the multipurpose room that day. Summer School will run from June 3rd through 14th. 48 students from the elementary were asked to attend and 13 students from 7th to 12th grade were asked to attend to make up course work. Elementary attendance was 95.99% while high school attendance was 94.88%. It was slightly higher than last year.

Fairchild reported that he was working on the budget for next year and that he was getting files back in proper order. The ACES program is no longer in existence; the school sent one student there for last year and three for the year before.