Crestview Board OKs lengthy list of personnel contracts
New Crestview Local Schools employees include speech/language pathologist Whitney Bollenbacher (left) and preschool/kindergarten intervention specialist Sydney Bowen.
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CONVOY Personnel matters were at the forefront of Monday night’s meeting of the Crestview Local Board of Education.
Three-year administrative contracts were approved for High School Principal Dave Bowen, Middle School Principal Trent Kreischer, Food Service Supervisor Penny Clark, Program Services Director Amy Eickholt, Assistant Treasurer Amy Gerardot and Maintenance/Custodial Supervisor Geoff Waddles.
The board also approved a long list of one-year teaching contracts, including Jeff Bagley, high school science; Danille Hancock, high school music; Jim Wharton, middle school/high school physical education; Diane Wilson, middle school intervention specialist; Doug Etz
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The Van Wert Area Chamber of Commerce recently completed its 2021 Annual Chamber Awards to recognize businesses based on performance, events and milestones in 2020.
“We are extremely happy with the amount of people who followed, liked, and commented about our recipients on our social media platforms,” said Chamber President/CEO Mark Verville. “The heavy snow we received the week of February 15 affected some of our scheduled pictures, but maybe people had a little extra time to scroll through Facebook to find us.”
2021 Chamber Award Series
2021 Ray Miller Award
The recipient of this award (has shown a strong commitment to the community through volunteer work, participation in community organizations and outstanding service to our community):
2021 Annual Chamber Award Series awards announced
Information submitted Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:00 AM VAN WERT 2021 Annual Chamber Award Series awards: awarded for the year 2020 are as follows:
Ray Miller recipient: Mitch Price
Recipient
must be a Van Wert County resident that is affiliated with the Chamber
or a Chamber Member business who has shown a strong commitment to the
community through volunteer work, participation in community
organizations and outstanding service to our community.
Crystal Image recipient: YWCA of Van Wert County
Recipient
business must be a current Chamber Member who demonstrated leadership
within the Van Wert community by its many faceted contributions,
Rivals United rakes in record-breaking donations
Information submitted Monday, February 15, 2021 12:00 AM
VAN WERT – The 5th Annual Rivals United 2021 is a wrap. This year’s
event proposed many challenges for all involved, but that didn’t stop
the Lincolnview and Crestview communities from coming together for this
great cause.
Executive Director of the United Way of Van Wert
County, Vicki Smith along with student council and staff members from
each school collaborated to come up with some COVID-worthy”
money-raising events that helped this year’s Rivals United be the
biggest ever. As usual, the weather caused three cancellation days
during the week but thankfully didn’t pose a threat to the events