Fairborn Intermediate wins OAESA award
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FAIRBORN Fairborn Intermediate School joins eight other schools in receiving recognition from the Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators (OAESA). Under the leadership of Fairborn Intermediate School Principal, Betsy Wyatt, Fairborn Intermediate School earned the 2021 Hall of Fame School award from OAESA.
Recipients of the award must go through a rigorous application process, and are judged by categories including academic programs and assistance, as well as co-curricular activities and support for students and families.
“My staff makes me look really good and I am very proud of the students and staff at Fairborn Intermediate School,” said FIS Principal Betsy Wyatt. “We have an excellent culture with a focus on what is best for students each day. We focus on the positive and each day is a new start for each of us.”
Volunteers Needed To Help Plant Trees Saturday
300 trees donated from Reforest Richmond will populate a barren bike path near Fairfield Elementary in Richmond’s East End. Richmond Cycling Corps, the non-profit spearheading the planting, could use some help. (Photo: Ian Stewart/VPM News)
If you have gloves and a shovel, you can help plant some 300 trees along a barren bike path at Armstrong Bike Park, near Fairfield Elementary, in Richmond’s East End this Saturday.
The trees have been donated from Reforest Richmond, which is trying to increase the city’s tree canopy by 60% by 2037.
The decade old non-profit Richmond Cycling Corps is spearheading the planting. The group is a small outreach program that uses cycling as a means to build relationships with youth living in the East End.
Pickerington: 5 top stories from 2020
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Life has gone on, but nearly every facet of it has shifted in some way because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
While annual Pickerington-sponsored Easter activities, the Picktown Palooza and countless other events were scrapped this year, altered versions of high school graduations, the community July 4 celebration, summer swimming, the Pickerington Lions Club Labor Day Parade and fall scholastic sports were among those that went forward.
Here’s a recap five
ThisWeek Pickerington Times-Sun stories that highlighted the year.
Pickerington Jaguars win it all – On Feb. 23, the Pickerington Jaguars Purple Team outpaced the pandemic – Coach Bryon Beresford promised they’d play fast – with a 42-38 victory over Paulding County to win Ohio’s Special Olympics state championship in basketball.
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School board hears lots of comment on COVID and school reopening plans
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During the Dec. 17 school board meeting, the trustees discussed the current COVID-19 situation in Yolo County, as well as the emerging plans for an eventual return to campus at some point in the future, after the health threat from the COVID virus has receded to a sufficient degree.
Leading off the COVID discussion was Dianna Stommel, president of the Davis Teachers Association, who acknowledged that due to the virus-related closure of school campuses, and the switch to distance learning (by teachers giving their lessons online, etc.) the present school year has been “difficult.”