C’view bd. honors Scholastic Bowl team

DAVE MOSIER/independent editor

CONVOY — The Crestview Local Board of Education honored its Scholastic Bowl team during an otherwise uneventful November meeting held Monday in the district boardroom.

The team won the WTLW Quiz Bowl, as well as the Northwest Conference Scholastic Bowl, and team members Cody Klinker and Shelby Ripley presented a trophy and plaque from those competitions to Superintendent Mike Estes.

In personnel action, the board accepted the resignation of elementary teacher Janelle Miller, who is retiring at the end of the 2012-2013 school year after 30 years in education, 28 of those with Crestview Local Schools.

The board also approved a medical leave for Karen Bullinger beginning this Saturday, November 27, for a period set by Family Medical Leave Act guidelines, and approved Nehemiah Murphy as junior class advisor and Meghan Henry as a girls’ high school basketball volunteer coach.

Also on Monday, the board approved an overnight trip for the Knight varsity softball team and Coach Owen Pugh to the Champions Challenge Softball Tournament in Loudonville on April 26-27.

During his report, Estes talked about the district facilities project, noting that he is trying to finalize the project after months of wrangling over various issues, but he and Board member John Auld noted that it’s hard to get a precise figure from the Ohio School Facilities Commission. “It’s our responsibility to make we don’t come up short of funds, and we never really knew where we were with the OSFC,” the superintendent said.

Estes also talked briefly about the recent Ohio School Boards Association’s Capital Conference, and also said the district is still planning on receiving an “excellent” rating on the State Report Card for last year, although the results are still classified as preliminary.

Elementary Principal Kathy Mollenkopf, Middle School Principal Dave Bowen and High School Principal Mike Biro also gave their reports, with Biro noting that both students and parents reacted very favorably to a class trip to a Body World exhibit. Biro also talked about the Knight Vision show choir’s placing at a recent show choir competition in Toledo, while Crestview’s farm business management students attended a national convention in Indianapolis, Ind. A Crestview student also came in third in the county in a Voice of Democracy competition, he added.

All three principals noted that students would be participating in holiday concerts in the coming weeks.

During Monday’s meeting, the board also accepted, with thanks, a donation of $100 from St. Paul’s Reformed Church in America’s Women’s Fellowship to assist with payment of school fees for needy children.

The board also approved the Treasurer Laura Metzger’s report and approved OSBA Media Honor Roll 2012 recipients, which include representatives of The Van Wert independent and Times-Bulletin newspapers.

The board then went into executive session to discuss personnel items, with no action taken following the session.

The next meeting of the Crestview Local Board of Education will be at 6 p.m. Monday, December 17, in the district boardroom.