HELP RAISE FUNDS FOR GJ CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS
Grand Junction Horizons is sponsoring ‘Tis the Season soup supper and silent auction on Sunday, Nov. 20, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Community Center on Main Street in Grand Junction. Proceeds from the event will be used to buy new Christmas decorations for downtown Grand Junction.
The menu is potato soup or chili, beef burgers, carrots and celery sticks, bars and beverage. There will be a free will offering at the door. Live entertainment will be provided by cast members performing numbers from the “Sanders Family Christmas” to be presented by the Perry Community Theatre on Dec. 2 and 3 at 7 p.m. at the McCreary Community Center in Perry.
“We are canvassing clubs, organizations and businesses in the community to donate holiday items, such as small decorated trees, wreaths, table centerpieces and outdoor yard art for the silent auction,” said Jan Scharingson, Horizons board member. “Already we have received more than a dozen items including a painted poinsettia window from the East Greene Art Club, red items including a fleece jacket and Ertl farm toys from Rueter’s Red Power, and several beautifully decorated holiday items from the Naked Ladies Garden Club including a peppermint decorated Christmas tree, a table runner and a white poinsettia centerpiece.”
“We have also received several anonymous items which will be bargains for the smart bidders, including a woodland wreath, red-and-gold Santa centerpiece, fall harvest cornucopia, nativity set, and a red-and-white afghan,” said Scharingson.
The auction items are now available for viewing and bidding in the lobby of Peoples Trust and Savings Bank on Main Street in Grand Junction. The bank staff is also putting together a seasonal item for the auction. “Be sure to stop in the bank and see these terrific holiday decorations and gift-giving items,” said Scharingson. “The bank lobby is open each day from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, so check in often and make your bid.”
Items will be available for bidding through Saturday, Nov. 19, and then moved across the street to the Community Center for additional viewing and last-minute bidding at the beginning of the soup supper.
“Come join us on Main Street in Grand Junction as we ring in the Thanksgiving and Christmas-New Year holiday season,” said Alan Robinson, ‘Tis the Season coordinator and Horizons member. “Get in your winning bid, enjoy some great chili and soup, listen to some terrific entertainment, and just enjoy visiting with friends and neighbors from the area. Plus, you’ll be helping up us to light up our venerable Main Street for many holidays to come.”
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Jerry Herrick Re-Elected Mayor of GJ
FAGEN RE-ELECTED, ROBINSON ELECTED TO COUNCIL
Jerry Herrick was re-elected mayor of Grand Junction in voting today according to unofficial voting results from the Greene County Auditor’s Office. Herrick had 115 votes with challenger Dave Kersey receiving 55. Pat Fagen and Alan Robinson were both elected to the city council.
Fagen, an incumbent, was running unopposed for a city council seat and received 132 votes. Robinson was running unopposed for a vacant seat on the council and received 130 votes. He will fill the seat to be vacated by Barb Walker, whose term expires at the end of the year.
There were 38 write-in votes for council with Jeremy Richards receiving 22, Mike Ross 2, Leo Kersey 2, and 16 scattered.
Nearly one-third of the city’s registered voters went to the polls as 171 ballots were cast from 534 total registered voters, a 32% turnout.
It was the second-highest turnout of any city in Greene County except Scranton, where 33% of the 396 registered voters cast ballots. Scranton had contested elections for both mayor and city council. Rodney Walker was elected mayor with 85 votes, beating Ron Grimsley with 30.
Jerry Herrick was re-elected mayor of Grand Junction in voting today according to unofficial voting results from the Greene County Auditor’s Office. Herrick had 115 votes with challenger Dave Kersey receiving 55. Pat Fagen and Alan Robinson were both elected to the city council.
Fagen, an incumbent, was running unopposed for a city council seat and received 132 votes. Robinson was running unopposed for a vacant seat on the council and received 130 votes. He will fill the seat to be vacated by Barb Walker, whose term expires at the end of the year.
There were 38 write-in votes for council with Jeremy Richards receiving 22, Mike Ross 2, Leo Kersey 2, and 16 scattered.
Nearly one-third of the city’s registered voters went to the polls as 171 ballots were cast from 534 total registered voters, a 32% turnout.
It was the second-highest turnout of any city in Greene County except Scranton, where 33% of the 396 registered voters cast ballots. Scranton had contested elections for both mayor and city council. Rodney Walker was elected mayor with 85 votes, beating Ron Grimsley with 30.
EGHS/MS Students Help Their Community
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The EG Leaf Brigade takes a break between lawns. |
GREENE COUNTY FOOD PANTRY
Students at East Greene High School and Middle School have been busy with community outreach this autumn season.
High school students fanned out in Grand Junction on Thursday, Nov. 3, to rake the lawns of 10 residents and the high school lawn on 12th Street.
At Halloween, the Art Club and Student Council sponsored a dance at the high school for both middle school and high school students. Admission to the dance was a canned food item for the Greene County Christian ARC food pantry in Jefferson. Students who did not bring cans paid an admission charge and those funds also went to the food pantry.
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Student leaf rakers found this big pile of leaves just too easy to pass up—so they jumped in! From left, Cody Hidlebaugh, Brittany Gunn and Kate Beyerink. Brittany is a junior. Cody and Kate are sophomores. |
EYE ON GJ SAYS: Great job, East Greene students!!
Saturday, November 5, 2011
EG School Board Plays Pre-WGS ‘Name Game’
WHAT TO CALL EAST GREENE/JEFFERSON-SCRANTON??
East Greene School Board President Marc Hoffman opened the door to some much needed discussion about a new name for the conjoined East Greene and Jefferson-Scranton High School and Middle School at the Oct. 19 board meeting.
The two school districts are entering into a whole grade sharing arrangement next year, 2012-13, in which all 5th and 6th grade students from both districts will attend classes in the East Greene high school/middle school building in Grand Junction. All the EG and JS middle school students will attend classes in the Jefferson-Scranton Middle School and all EG and JS high school students will attend classes in the Jefferson-Scranton High School. Both buildings are in Jefferson and each was the middle school and high school serving Jefferson before it merged with Scranton in the early 1990s.
This year, however, the two school districts are already sharing high school instrumental and vocal music and speech, in addition to an ongoing arrangement of sharing teachers and certain academic classes, such as science, vocational agriculture and advanced college placement.
The issue came home to Hoffman as a band parent. Both of his children are in the J-S Marching Band which also includes East Greene students, but the band’s signage says Jefferson-Scranton only. “One of my kids was not happy about the band being introduced at a recent event as just the Jefferson-Scranton band, but the other one was OK with it,” Hoffman shared with other board members at the meeting held in the ICN room of the high school in Grand Junction.
No action was taken at the meeting, but the topic has been listed a discussion item at recent joint board meetings between the two districts’ school boards and will be an ongoing topic as the two districts move toward the start date for WGS next July. Board members did note that moving forward any changes would involve new signage, school colors, and uniforms for activities like band and sports. Mention was also made of the new “Home of the Rams” sign that was just put up at the main entrance to the Jefferson-Scranton Middle School gymnasium (used by JS high school athletics).
EYE ON GJ SAYS: Hats off to Hoffman for getting the ball rolling on this. It’s one of a number of important topics that will need to be discussed moving forward. Better to start now rather than wait until the June 2012 meeting just before the agreement officially goes into effect and creates a last-minute, “11th hour” situation.
I posted something on this site a few weeks ago on this very topic: “I suggest something that truly unites us across the board and helps this area stand out from the crowd: Lincolnway Community School District. Yes, the Lincoln (highway and president), with the statue of honest Abe on the courthouse square—on the county-owned side!—as our rallying point for all of Greene County, or at least all the towns and townships that would be inclusive of a reorg of the current J-S and EG districts.
“Lincolnway cleanly ties together the three largest towns of the [proposed] district which are also the three largest towns of the county—Scranton, Jefferson and Grand Junction. The school district and the Lincoln served by the three towns also embrace these townships: Scranton and Kendrick Townships and the city of Scranton; Bristol, Jackson, Hardin and Grant Townships surrounding the city of Jefferson; and the super-size Junction Township and the city of Grand Junction, the second largest town in Greene County with Scranton being third, both trailing Jefferson, the county seat and proposed site of the high school.”
Of course, the aspect of a “community school district” is still an option down the road, but in the duration as EG and JS move forward in whole grade sharing, it would be smart to “rebrand” a shared high school and middle school with new names. Lincolnway High School and Lincolnway Middle School truly fit the bill.
East Greene School Board President Marc Hoffman opened the door to some much needed discussion about a new name for the conjoined East Greene and Jefferson-Scranton High School and Middle School at the Oct. 19 board meeting.
The two school districts are entering into a whole grade sharing arrangement next year, 2012-13, in which all 5th and 6th grade students from both districts will attend classes in the East Greene high school/middle school building in Grand Junction. All the EG and JS middle school students will attend classes in the Jefferson-Scranton Middle School and all EG and JS high school students will attend classes in the Jefferson-Scranton High School. Both buildings are in Jefferson and each was the middle school and high school serving Jefferson before it merged with Scranton in the early 1990s.
This year, however, the two school districts are already sharing high school instrumental and vocal music and speech, in addition to an ongoing arrangement of sharing teachers and certain academic classes, such as science, vocational agriculture and advanced college placement.
The issue came home to Hoffman as a band parent. Both of his children are in the J-S Marching Band which also includes East Greene students, but the band’s signage says Jefferson-Scranton only. “One of my kids was not happy about the band being introduced at a recent event as just the Jefferson-Scranton band, but the other one was OK with it,” Hoffman shared with other board members at the meeting held in the ICN room of the high school in Grand Junction.
No action was taken at the meeting, but the topic has been listed a discussion item at recent joint board meetings between the two districts’ school boards and will be an ongoing topic as the two districts move toward the start date for WGS next July. Board members did note that moving forward any changes would involve new signage, school colors, and uniforms for activities like band and sports. Mention was also made of the new “Home of the Rams” sign that was just put up at the main entrance to the Jefferson-Scranton Middle School gymnasium (used by JS high school athletics).
EYE ON GJ SAYS: Hats off to Hoffman for getting the ball rolling on this. It’s one of a number of important topics that will need to be discussed moving forward. Better to start now rather than wait until the June 2012 meeting just before the agreement officially goes into effect and creates a last-minute, “11th hour” situation.
I posted something on this site a few weeks ago on this very topic: “I suggest something that truly unites us across the board and helps this area stand out from the crowd: Lincolnway Community School District. Yes, the Lincoln (highway and president), with the statue of honest Abe on the courthouse square—on the county-owned side!—as our rallying point for all of Greene County, or at least all the towns and townships that would be inclusive of a reorg of the current J-S and EG districts.
“Lincolnway cleanly ties together the three largest towns of the [proposed] district which are also the three largest towns of the county—Scranton, Jefferson and Grand Junction. The school district and the Lincoln served by the three towns also embrace these townships: Scranton and Kendrick Townships and the city of Scranton; Bristol, Jackson, Hardin and Grant Townships surrounding the city of Jefferson; and the super-size Junction Township and the city of Grand Junction, the second largest town in Greene County with Scranton being third, both trailing Jefferson, the county seat and proposed site of the high school.”
Of course, the aspect of a “community school district” is still an option down the road, but in the duration as EG and JS move forward in whole grade sharing, it would be smart to “rebrand” a shared high school and middle school with new names. Lincolnway High School and Lincolnway Middle School truly fit the bill.
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