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ELIZABETHTON â Spring cleaning has long been a healthytradition of the coming of spring, as well as doing some outdoor exercise to get back into shape after being inside all winter. The Keep Carter County Beautiful organization will be keeping those traditions alive for the new season with several planned activities starting this weekend.
On Saturday, the Keep Carter County Beautiful organization will once again be in springtime mode as it start the first of several projects planned for this season. Saturdayâs event is another clean-up effort on its assigned highway in the Governorâs Adopt-A-Highway program, the Milligan Highway. Volunteers for the clean-up will meet in the Happy Valley Elementary School parking lot at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 20.
Andrea Salazar, Associate Superintendent/Chief Business and Operations Officer
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - There will be three new principals at Lake Tahoe Unified School District (LTUSD) this fall as well as leaders in four newly created positions at the district office and the digital learning academy. Those new positions are Director of Elementary Education, Director of Secondary Education, Associate Superintendent/Chief Business and Operations Officer, Associate Superintendent/Chief Education Officer & Program Director, Principal of Elevated Digital Learning Academy
Dr. Todd Cutler, LTUSD Superintendent, introduced the new principals at the last Trustee board meeting.
Principals
There was a lot of interest in the open positions with several candidates submitting their applications. Interview panels with parents, current principals, and district staff met with finalists and the new principals for Tahoe Valley Elementary, South Tahoe Middle School and South Tahoe High School
A common ingredient in many of the new COVID-19 outbreaks identified by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is fun. Under current circumstances, having a good time comes at a risk.
The CDPHE considers an entity an outbreak after two or more COVID-19 cases among residents, staffers or other people connected to a specific location are confirmed within a fourteen-day period, or two or more cases of respiratory illness with an onset of symptoms within a fourteen-day period are paired with at least one additional COVID-19 diagnosis. The vast majority of businesses and facilities identified as outbreaks remain open while working with the department to monitor symptoms and prevent future infections.
Photo from Caitlin Steele
Instructing physical education has been a challenge for teachers in Summit County and across the county throughout the pandemic.
Public health regulations and school rules implemented to reduce transmission risk resulted in a much different gym class for kids than many adults remember growing up. And though local teachers used every opportunity during warmer months to have kids exercise outside, where transmission risk is lower, recent colder months have made that job more difficult.
Caitlin Steele, physical education teacher at Dillon Valley Elementary School, saw that first-hand. At times earlier this year, she instructed gym class in classrooms rather than the gymnasium, due to COVID-19 guidelines and rules intended to prevent the mixing of cohorts. That created a physical education situation where kids were limited in the space and equipment they could use. Rather than roaming, free play riding scooters, playing with parachutes or climbing ropes, spid