Minerva Local School District (ECRWSS) NON-PROFIT ORG. 406 East Street Occupant US POSTAGE PAID Minerva, Ohio 44657 Minerva, OH 44657 CANTON, OHIO PERMIT NO. 1005 MINERVA LOCAL SCHOOLS THEMANEMANE EVENTEVENT Fall 2015 Every Child, Every Minute, Every Day VOLUME 4 • ISSUE 1 Welcome Back to the 2015-2016 School Year I am honored to be the Superintendent of the Minerva Local Schools. Great things are happening in our district and it is an exciting time to be a Minerva Lion. Minerva has an outstanding tradition of excellence in academics as well as athletics. Our goal of the Minerva Local School District is to graduate 100% of our students, and leave us prepared for college, the military, or the workforce. Inside this edition, you will find a link to the Minerva Plan. The Minerva Plan is a five-year plan that focuses on continuous improvement. Please check out our district goals on the Minerva Local School’s website at www.mlsd.sparcc.org. On behalf of the Minerva Local School District Board of Education and myself, I would like to wish everyone a safe and outstanding school year. Thank you for your continuous support. Go Celebrity Cooks Lions! A special thank you to the Minerva Local School Board for providing a wonderful luncheon for all staff. Minerva staff members were excited and surprised to see guest grill masters Mr. Joe Chaddock, former Minerva Superintendent now serving as the Stark County ESC superintendent, Mr. Robert Foltz, Minerva Local School District board president, and Mr. Gary Chaddock, Minerva Local School District superintendent. Gary Chaddock Superintendent Fall Senior Service Day Minerva High School will be conducting its annual Senior (l-r) Front row: Stanley Pennock, Vice President; Service Day on November Bob Foltz, President; Jeff Evans, Member; 6, 2015. The Minerva High Back row: Rob Yeagley, Member; Susan Crawford, Member. School seniors will be going out into the community to provide leaf raking, painting and small household / yard maintenance chores. The service day mission is to provide assistance to community members who are in need of help. If you are in need, or know of others, please contact Alex Albert at 330-868-4134 and provide your address and phone number. We look forward to serving our community! For the most up-to-date Minerva Local Schools information, visit our website at http://mlsd.sparcc.org District NEWS STAY CONNECTED Minerva Local Board of Education Robert Foltz ............................................ President Schools Stanley Pennock ..............................Vice President Susan Crawford ....................................... Member Jeff Evans .................................................. Member Transportation Rob Yeagley .............................................. Member (Meetings are held at 7 p.m. on the News third Monday of each month.) Minerva Local Schools transports approximately Minerva Administration 1,100 students and travels over 1,300 miles on 406 East Street 15 scheduled routes on a daily basis. The buses Minerva, Ohio 44657 traveled 238,306 miles for the 2014-2015 school year and consumed 36,485 gallons of diesel fuel. The 330-868-4332 total costs for transportation for the year were $980,000. Fax: 330-868-4731 The Transportation Department is looking forward to a great 2015-2016 school year! We have a few www.mlsd.sparcc.org new faces joining our bus fleet this year and a few changes of bus drivers on different routes! However, Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. most of the routes will continue to be the same as in the past few years. Listed below are the bus drivers with their route number: Mr. Gary Chaddock ....................... Superintendent Mrs. Teri Hollar .................................. Secretary to Superintendent Bus 2: Cheryl Patterson Bus 14: Sandy Collins Mr. Aaron Hawk.............. Maintenance Supervisor Bus 4: Richard Merrick Bus 15: Melissa Henderson Treasurers Office Bus 5: Joe Mardis Bus 16: David Krizon 330-868-4942 Bus 6: Jeanette Leyda Bus 17: Tracy Evans Fax: 330-868-6122 Bus 7: Ron Smith (R.G. Drage Career Center) Bus 20: Mark Leasure Mr. Larry Pottorf ....................................Treasurer Bus 10: LuAnn Duff Bus 21: Janis Moore Mrs. Robin Fry .......Accounts Payable/Receivable/ (R.G. Drage Career Center) Budgetary Secretary Bus 11: Barbara Campbell (Out of district students) Bus 23: Tammy Horn Mrs. Jodi Locke ...........................................Payroll Bus 13: Darlene Sutton Pupil Services/Curriculum/EMIS 330-868-5855 Fax: 330-868-4731 Minerva Local looks forward to transporting your children this school ?.................................................. Gifted Coordinator year! We want to remind parents and Mrs. Becky Miller ..................Curriculum Director students to be aware of loading and Mr. Andrew Burman ... Special Education Director unloading students at bus stops. We Mrs. Lisa Ayers .........................EMIS/Certification/ would like to offer the following tips Special Services to remind your child while getting off and on the bus: always remain in direct Food Service eyesight of the bus driver; get to the 330-868-6293 bus stop at least 10 minutes before your Fax: 330-868-6815 assigned time; take 10 giant steps back Mrs. Stacey Bettis ................ Food Service Director from the curb while waiting for the bus and 10 steps when exiting the bus; Bus Garage never try to get anything left on the bus 330-868-4222 after exiting; never reach underneath Fax: 330-868-6815 the bus; always follow the driver’s Hours: 6:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. directions for how to cross the street; Mrs. Teri Hollar .........Transportation Coordinator be alert to traffic and look both ways; Mr. Stanley Gassman ..............................Mechanic AND always cross in front of the bus, but only when the bus driver signals it Mr. David Henning .................................Mechanic is safe to do so! The Mane Event is a publication of Minerva Local Schools, a nonprofit organization. The Federal Race to the Top Grant The main goal of our bus drivers is funds this newsletter. News releases, story ideas, comments the safety of your child! If you have and suggestions should be addressed to The Mane Event, questions or concerns please contact Minerva Local Schools, 406 East St., Minerva, OH 44657. Teri Hollar at 330-868-4332, ext. 3709. Circulation is currently 5,500. 2 MANE EVENT Fall 2015 District NEWS Online Cafeteria Deposits Search for Available Students Minerva Local Schools is excited about giving parents the ability to manage their child’s meal with Disabilities account over the internet using PayForIt.net. This technology benefits the schools, the parents, and the students. The schools will be able to provide parents up-to-the-minute information about The Minerva Local School District is responsible for assessing their child’s lunch account. Parents will no longer have to worry about money not reaching the and identifying all children within the Minerva School District cafeteria or their child running out of money. Students will not have to worry about being singled boundaries who are suspected of having a disability, between out for having a low lunch account balance. the ages of birth through 21. The school district provides Parents may sign up for a PayForIt.net account at any time. PayForIt.net integrates seamlessly special education services to eligible children beginning at with the district’s software so that when money is deposited it should be available for students age 3 and continuing through age 21. We conduct district-wide to use within four hours, in most cases. Once the account is activated, parents may start taking preschool screenings in the fall and spring for all children who advantage of all the features PayForIt.net offers, including: are 3, 4, and 5 years of age. Preschoolers suspected of having • Set up of recurring payments so there’s no worry about your child not having money. a disability would have developmental delays in the areas of • The ability to see your child’s balances on the main screen. communication (speech and language), fine or gross motor, • Email reminder option to notify you when your child’s account balance is getting low. hearing, vision, cognitive, pre-academic, or social/emotional • Convenience of depositing skills. If you know of a child who may have a disability or money 24 hours a day, 7 would like more information about special education, special days a week. programs, or the preschool screening program, please contact • The availability to see what your school principal or Andrew Burman, Director of Special your child is buying for Education, at 330-868-4134, ext. 3704, or burmana@minerva. lunch (within the last 30 sparcc.org. days). E • Online step by step tutorials on how to use PayForIt.net. Parents of 7th Grade Students • A safe and secure environment. Reminder that all students entering 7th grade are required to have a booster dose of the Tdap (Tetanus, Additional information regarding PayForIt.net registration and the associated convenience fees Diptheria and accellular pertussis) immunization by the can also be found under the food service icon on the district website at http://mlsd.sparcc.org. start of 7th grade. This law was put into effect in 2011 due to the outbreak of Pertusssis (Whooping Cough). If your child has not had this yet, please call your doctor and schedule an appointment. You can also go to a local health department, where payment is either free or $15. Free and Reduced Lunch If your child has not had this immunization, we are Did you know that published reports recently indicated that over 23% of Ohioans under the age of five required by law to exclude students from school. live on the “brink of hunger?” Help for families in Minerva is available from the federally funded school Free and Reduced Lunch Program. Many children in the Minerva Local School District receive Health Services free or reduced price breakfasts and lunches every school day. Almost 1,100 of our 2,000 students If your child needs to take medication during the school (over 53%) participate in the free and reduced breakfast and lunch program.