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CLYMER Several Clymer Central School events are coming back this spring, though district officials are making some changes to remain within the state’s COVID-19 guidelines.
Leading the way is the school’s annual May Day celebration on May 14. Typically, May Day brings the entire Clymer community to the school building for a celebration. Beth Olson, district superintendent, said she approached the Clymer Tulip Festival Committee about hosting the May Day event, but committee members were unable to do so, leading Olson to ask board members how important it was to have the community be involved in the school’s commemoration of May Day.
John Whittaker
Clymer Central School second-graders are pictured taking part in activities focusing on the natural habitat provided recently by the Audubon Community Nature Center.
Photos courtesy Clymer Central School
CLYMER A new summer program is coming for Clymer Central School District residents that partners with the town’s existing summer recreation program.
During a recent Board of Education meeting, Josh Tedone, Clymer elementary school principal, discussed a new summer camp that will be available to all district students in kindergarten through sixth grades. The literacy camp would be held Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays starting around the second week of July.
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State guidance aimed at getting more students back into school is making life harder for the Clymer Central School District.
On April 10, state officials revised the guidance on social distancing for schools. The revised state guidelines allow for at least 3 feet of distance between students in elementary, middle and high school classrooms in counties with a low or moderate risk of transmission. In counties where infection rates are high, middle and high schools should still aim for 6 feet of distancing unless they can maintain “cohorting,” where groups of students remain together through the day.
At the same time, the state changed its guidance on mask wearing in school. For Clymer Central School students, that means now wearing masks all day instead of just when they are moving around the building even though the district has been open five days a week with more than 90% of its students attending with the more relaxed mask guidelines. The distric
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Memory Loss Network
MONTEVIDEO The Montevideo Area Memory Loss Network presents a three-part dementia virtual event. Each two-hour class by Krisie Barron will be offered three times each day, 7 to 9 a.m., 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. The classes remaining are “Experience Dementia from the Inside Out” on April 28 and “Shifting our Perspective Shifts our Support” on May 6. All sessions are free. Continuing education credits are available at a nominal cost. For more information, call Lori Petersen, CCM Health Memory Care Coordinator, at 320-226-2343. Register at www.embracingjourneys.com/upcomingevents.
(Fargo, ND) Fargo Public Schools has announced that Beth Olson will take the reigns as principal of Jefferson Elementary School beginning on July 1st, 2021. She will assume the position from Principal Brad Franklin who will become the principal of Carl Ben Eielson Middle School on July 1st.
Olson has been the dean of students for Lewis and Clark Elementary School since 2019. Prior to being named a dean of students, Olson served as an administrative intern at Lewis & Clark for two years. For the 2016-17 school year, she was the student performance strategist at Kennedy Elementary School. Olson was also a fourth and second grade teacher at Kennedy from 2012 to 2016. While teaching at Kennedy, Olson also served as the student leadership advisor and was a member of the Kennedy Multi-Tiered System of Support. She has served on the District Technology Task Force and as a District teacher mentor. She began her education career in 1991 as a private school elementary teacher in Grand F