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Garden City Telegram USD 457 Board of Education decided not to follow staff s recommendation to remove fifth grade band and orchestra at Monday s regular Board meeting. Orchestra and band are elective courses which meet every other day, alternating with physical education. Students are introduced to instruments and the beginning skills to play them in the courses. The request for the deletion of the course came due to bussing students from Abe Hubert, Plymell and Jennie Barker schools to Bernadine Sitts and from Charles O. Stones to Kenneth Henderson. The classes are large and hard to accommodate. Gina Galpin, principal at Bernadine Sitts said the classes are large, some have over 60 students and are hard to accommodate. ....
Garden City Telegram USD 457 Board of Education rejected the removal of fifth grade band and orchestra at Monday s regular Board meeting. The board decided to not follow staff s recommendation to remove the course. It s an elective course which meets every other day, alternating with physical education. In the course, students are introduced to instruments and learn the beginning skills to play them. The request for the deletion of the course came due to bussing students from Abe Hubert, Plymell and Jennie Barker schools. The classes are at large and hard to accommodate in buildings. In addition the recommendation to remove the course also stated that the students who are bussed in miss core instruction and the band concerts are too large for the K-6 facilities. ....
Jennie Barker Road project moving along County road projects are moving along. Roger Calkins, Finney County Public Works director, gave an update on two road improvement projects at Monday s regular Finney County Commission meeting. The two road projects are Jennie Barker Road and Farmland Road. Calkins said the biggest update on Jennie Barker is that traffic has been set loose on the southbound lane. (The contractors) got a lot done, they ll be going in to finish up curb, guttering, entrances and whatnot before they do the main line on the other side, which would be the northbound lane, he said. Recent rains showed us areas where we had some erosion issues, so we went from the grass to the blankets, we installed blankets in those areas, mainly around some culvert ends and things like that. ....