New school Superintendent Gabe Edgar speaks to a crowd at the St. Joseph School Districts Back to School press conference/ Photo by Matt Pike By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post The St. Joseph School District has made some changes to the city high schools to emphasize school safety and security. Director of Safety and Security Shannon Nolte says safety and security is the district's number one priority "It supports the teaching and learning that has been talked about here today, it supports those in attendance, and it has to be our number one priority and it is," Nolte tells a group gathered at Coleman Elementary School. Nolte says in the effort to prioritize safety many updates have been made over the last several years to the entrance of school buildings. "The last three were the three high schools that have been finished this summer, if you enter one of those high schools, you'll notice a difference and the whole design around those is the safety and security
With the suspension of normal operations for the St. Joseph School District during winter break, district employees are loath to go on with idle hands when there is a pressing community need for volunteers.
COVID-19 has put more local families in need of food aid than ever before, and steps have been taken to help Second Harvest Community Food Bank address this problem. Airmen of the 139th Airlift Wing of the Missouri National Guard, together with soldiers from the 229th Medical Battalion and the 138th Infantry Regiment, are deployed to the food bank to supplement the small groups of volunteers who are able to work while following social-distancing guidelines. The airmen and soldiers worked alongside school district groups on Tuesday in various shifts.
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