Rotary donates to local schools for PPE Monday, January 18, 2021 12:00 AM Delphos Rotary Club President Corey Norton, right, makes the check presentation to St. Johnâs High School Principal Adam Lee Norton, right, makes the check presentation to Delphos City Schools Superintendent Doug Westrick. (Photos submitted)
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DELPHOS The Delphos Rotary Club recently made a donation to both local
schools.
Rotary District 6600, which governs the area, provided a
$1,000 grant and the Delphos club matched it 2 for 1 so the club was
able to provide $1,500 to St John’s Schools and $1,500 to Delphos City
Schools to be used for COVID necessary expenses like PPE.
Wisher tapped as BOE president Wednesday, January 13, 2021 3:09 PM Delphos City Schools DELPHOS Delphos City Schools held its annual Organizational Meeting
Monday evening with all but one member present. Andy North attended the
meeting by Zoom.
The meeting is held to elect a president and
vice president of the board as well as to set the time, date and place
of the new year’s meetings and choose committee heads, among other
things.
Jamey Wisher will be the board president for 2021 with Jason Grogg serving as vice president.
Committee
heads include: North Audits, Finance and Insurance; Wisher
Buildings, Grounds and Equipment; Grogg Communication and Community
2020 Year-end Wrap Up Jan.-March Thursday, December 24, 2020 3:41 PM DeMaria made himself at home in Mandy Wrasmanâs first-grade class at Franklin Elementary school during his visit on Jan. 10. Students were building snowmen. (DHI Media file photo) Playgrounds across the state empty after a mandate by Governor Mike DeWine last Thursday to close all public and private schools as of the end of day March 17. Students took work home or will learn digitally for the next several weeks. (DHI Media/Joe Dray)
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Each
December, The Delphos Herald staff takes a look back at the happenings
of the year. Here is the first installment of four 2020 Wrap Ups.
Norma Toddy Rozelle-Diers Norma Toddy Rozelle-Diers
DELPHOS Norma “Toddy” Rozelle-Diers passed away on Wednesday. She was 105 years old.
Norma
was born on Oct. 10, 1915, in Toronto, Canada, to Robert and Gertrude
(Sampson) Todd, who preceded her in death. On June 11, 1935, she was
united in marriage to Robert B. Rozelle, who passed away in 1983. She
was then united in marriage on Sept. 11, 1993, to Casey Diers, who
passed in 2005.
Norma is survived by a son and a daughter, Todd
(Janet) Rozelle and Jacqueline (Edward) Fritz, all of Delphos; five
grandchildren, James “JP” (Patty) Fritz, Eric (Gina) Fritz, Andrea
(Doug) Duerr, Melissa (Christopher) Ellison and Jacquie (Matt) Kill; two
Letter: School funding deserves a vote
As superintendents of the public schools of Allen County, we are in a unique position to speak on behalf of the students, staff, and communities we serve. The success of our districts depend on the support we, and our communities, are able to give our students and staff. Therefore, we would like to share our opinion on the advancement of S.B. 376 being released from committee and receiving an up or down vote on the Senate floor prior to the end of the current legislative session.
The DeRolph case was heard and decided over 20 years ago and we continue to wait for a constitutional funding system to be adopted for our schools. Finally, we have one developed with a bipartisan effort, after years of study and research, that would not only constitutionally fund our state’s education system, but would so in a fair and equitable manner. Such an historic effort by our elected representatives in the House, on both sides of the aisle, deserves to be h