Local events this week will honor veterans

Published by admin on Thu, 11/08/2018 - 11:51am

Veterans Day programs will be held at the Weiser schools on Friday, Nov. 9. Weiser High School’s program will be at 11 a.m. in the auditorium, Middle School at 8:30 a.m., Park Intermediate School at 1:30 p.m. and Pioneer Elementary School at 2:15 p.m. The Weiser Senior and Community Center will serve a free lunch for veterans on Nov. 9 starting at 11:30 a.m. and the Weiser Elks Lodge will have a special lunch on Sunday, Nov. 11. Doors open at noon with a program at 12:30 p.m. Veterans and their spouse will eat for free. Pictured above are those who participated in last year’s programs. From left: John Hoff, bugler; Ed Olsen, cryptologic technician; Brad Attebery, staff sergeant; Kent Chatterton, Air Force; Steve Fenske, lieutenant colonel; Dick Bergquist, crytologic technician; Commander Jim Grunke, U.S. Navy; Stanley Wilson, master sergeant and Captain Mike Carpenter, U.S. Marine Corps.
By: 
Steve Lyon
There are events planned in Weiser and Midvale this week to commemorate Veterans Day and pay tribute to the men and women who have served and are serving in the military. 
 Because Veterans Day falls on Sunday, Nov. 11, this year, some activities will take place on Thursday and Friday. 
 In Midvale, a veterans program will be held on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 10 a.m. at the Danny Warfield Memorial Gymnasium at Midvale High School.
 The event will include a program put on by elementary students, followed by a video tribute and songs by Krista Piper. The guest speaker will be Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney, who is a Midvale resident. Following Denney’s comments, local veterans will be recognized and there will be closing remarks.
 In Weiser, Navy veteran Jim Grunke will lead an annual tribute to veterans at Weiser High School on Friday. This year’s event will be held on Nov. 9, at 11 a.m. The high school band and choir will perform a number of patriotic songs. 
 All local veterans are invited to attend and be recognized. The event also includes the solemn reading of names of those veterans who have died and the ceremonial passing of the flag. 
than 115 students (except grade 1 with 121 students) and trustees did not close those grades to open enrollment requests from students living outside the attendance area.  
 The open enrollment closure only applies to students living outside the district’s attendance area who are seeking to attend Weiser schools. 
 Currently, there are 17 students attending Weiser schools from Payette and 12 high school students who reside in Annex, Ore., right across the river from Weiser.
 The school district has a long-standing agreement to enroll the Annex students at Weiser High School and the Annex school board pays tuition for them to attend.
 The Weiser School District also receives funds from the state for Payette students who enroll in the district. 
 Payette students attending Weiser schools have to provide their own transportation or parents must drop their children off at a bus stop within the attendance area.
 The school district cannot turn away any students living within the attendance area.
 The district’s student count this year is close to the 30-year average enrollment of 1,600, and the trend over the past couple of years has been upward. Last week, the enrollment stood at 1,584 students in the district. 
 A breakdown of the enrollment numbers at the middle school shows 133 students in sixth grade, 137 in seventh grade and 133 in eighth grade, according to figures from the school district. 
 At the high school level, the sophomore class is the largest at 141 students, while the freshman class is 138 students. The junior class is 135 students and the senior class is the smallest at the high school with 111 students.
 Overgaard said administrators will continue to monitor the enrollment numbers for the next few years at WMS and WHS as these larger classes pass through. 
 “They will definitely impact our class loads and teacher needs in the near future, but we’ve made no decisions about staffing for next year yet,” he said in an email to the Weiser Signal American. 
 “We will look at those needs in the spring as we begin preparing our budget for next year,” he said.
 The state conducts an official count of students in districts each fall. Those numbers are used to calculate state funding for school districts. 
 Idaho uses an average daily attendance calculation to fund schools right now, but that could change in the future. 
 A legislative interim committee has recommended that Idaho move to a student-centric, enrollment-based model of funding. 
 Some lawmakers have said the current funding formula is confusing.

 

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