Kissinger First Recipient of Winchester Award
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Jordan Fouts-
The Wawasee School Board made the announcement during its meeting Tuesday. Kissinger, a member of the school supermileage car team, received the award at the end of the school year.
The award is named after former school board member Dallas Winchester, who died Nov. 25, 2010, after serving on the board since 2000. The board announced the creation of the award last July.
The scholarship is aimed at students going to vocational school – an interest of Winchester’s – with recipients chosen by the Kosciusko County Community Foundation based on criteria from Wawasee. For the inaugural award, $500 was given, but the school hopes more can be offered in the future.
“We hope to do some fundraising and raise an amount that will make this a permanent scholarship, but we wanted to get it off the ground this year,” said Schools Superintendent Dr. Tom Edington.
Also during the meeting, the board recognized retiring teacher Sue Price, who for 17 years taught family and consumer science and English at Milford Middle School. She was honored earlier at MMS with a retirement breakfast and roast.
The board accepted the hiring of Heidi Heinisch to take over as family and consumer science teacher and Danielle Hartzell as language arts instructor.
Board members also approved the employment of four graduate coaches at the high school for the 2012-2013 year: Michael Casey and Trevor Shields, both social studies teachers, and language arts teacher Amy Miller and math teacher Laura Mikel.
And the board chose contractors for paving and lights for the new MMS parking lot. Phend and Brown, of Milford, the only bidder, will pave the 32-spot lot at a cost of $55,385; and Michiana Contracting, the cheapest of three bids, will install lights at a cost of $33,375.
During a special budget meeting July 31, members will make a decision on whether to install geothermal wells at Wawasee Middle School. The heating and cooling system would cost around $1 million to install, and is expected to see an energy savings of $25,000 to $40,000 a year.
The project would be financed through a federal Clean Renewable Energy Bond.
A test well recently dug at the school at a cost of $10,000 showed promise, Edington noted after the meeting. The test gauged temperature changes in the ground under the school, which is needed to determine the number and location of full-sized wells at a potential site.
In this case, the middle school would have 52 wells at 400 feet deep each.[[In-content Ad]]
The Wawasee School Board made the announcement during its meeting Tuesday. Kissinger, a member of the school supermileage car team, received the award at the end of the school year.
The award is named after former school board member Dallas Winchester, who died Nov. 25, 2010, after serving on the board since 2000. The board announced the creation of the award last July.
The scholarship is aimed at students going to vocational school – an interest of Winchester’s – with recipients chosen by the Kosciusko County Community Foundation based on criteria from Wawasee. For the inaugural award, $500 was given, but the school hopes more can be offered in the future.
“We hope to do some fundraising and raise an amount that will make this a permanent scholarship, but we wanted to get it off the ground this year,” said Schools Superintendent Dr. Tom Edington.
Also during the meeting, the board recognized retiring teacher Sue Price, who for 17 years taught family and consumer science and English at Milford Middle School. She was honored earlier at MMS with a retirement breakfast and roast.
The board accepted the hiring of Heidi Heinisch to take over as family and consumer science teacher and Danielle Hartzell as language arts instructor.
Board members also approved the employment of four graduate coaches at the high school for the 2012-2013 year: Michael Casey and Trevor Shields, both social studies teachers, and language arts teacher Amy Miller and math teacher Laura Mikel.
And the board chose contractors for paving and lights for the new MMS parking lot. Phend and Brown, of Milford, the only bidder, will pave the 32-spot lot at a cost of $55,385; and Michiana Contracting, the cheapest of three bids, will install lights at a cost of $33,375.
During a special budget meeting July 31, members will make a decision on whether to install geothermal wells at Wawasee Middle School. The heating and cooling system would cost around $1 million to install, and is expected to see an energy savings of $25,000 to $40,000 a year.
The project would be financed through a federal Clean Renewable Energy Bond.
A test well recently dug at the school at a cost of $10,000 showed promise, Edington noted after the meeting. The test gauged temperature changes in the ground under the school, which is needed to determine the number and location of full-sized wells at a potential site.
In this case, the middle school would have 52 wells at 400 feet deep each.[[In-content Ad]]
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