{"id":173838,"date":"2023-12-19T04:55:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T09:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=173838"},"modified":"2023-12-20T04:54:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T09:54:30","slug":"crestview-students-and-employees-to-have-april-8-2024-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/12\/19\/crestview-students-and-employees-to-have-april-8-2024-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Board makes decision on Eclipse Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CONVOY &#8212; It\u2019s now official. Crestview Local Schools students and staff will have April 8, 2024 off to fully experience a rare total solar eclipse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During Monday night\u2019s monthly school board meeting, the board unanimously agreed to amend the school calendar and cancel classes for the day, while setting President\u2019s Day, February 19, as a professional development day for employees. The calendar change was discussed by the board at the November meeting and Superintendent Kathy Mollenkopf recommended the change be made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"363\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Kathy-Mollenkopf-12-18-2023-1-e1703066036652.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-173840\"\/><figcaption>Superintendent Kathy Mollenkopf talks about Crestview&#8217;s two new school buses. <em>Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a win-win for everybody,\u201d Mollenkopf said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert County will be directly in the path of the eclipse and is expected to be a prime spot for out-of-town visitors before and during the eclipse, which could lead to traffic tie ups, a big concern since buses are normally sent out around the time the eclipse will begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other county school districts are expected to follow suit in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other business, Mollenkopf informed the board that the district finally has two new buses that were ordered in May of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe took possession of the new buses last Friday, new Bus 6 and new Bus 12,\u201d she said. \u201cOnce we get everything completed \u2013 inspection, titles, tags, radios and cameras taken care of, we are going to send them out on the road on routes with a couple of drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The board agreed to re-appoint Lonnie Nedderman as Crestview\u2019s representative to the Vantage Career Center Board of Education. The term is for three years and it begins January 1, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The board also approved Matthew Speelman as assistant varsity track coach and Jamie Hess as a driver for the box truck to band and Knight Vision events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Board President John Auld and board members Andy Perrott and Nan Grace gave reports on their time at last month\u2019s Ohio School Boards Association Capital Conference. Topics at the annual conference included ethics, leadership, English learners and levy campaign guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The board will hold its annual organizational meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, January 15, followed by a budget hearing and the regular monthly meeting. John Auld was appointed President Pro-Tem of the organizational meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor CONVOY &#8212; It\u2019s now official. Crestview Local Schools students and staff will have April 8, 2024 off to fully experience a rare total solar eclipse. During Monday night\u2019s monthly school board meeting, the board unanimously agreed to amend the school calendar and cancel classes for the day, while setting President\u2019s Day, February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 03:28:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173838"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173906,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173838\/revisions\/173906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}