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The Press-Dispatch Local Wednesday, June 27, 2018 A- 7 Student Spotlight MOSS RECOGNIZED AS DIVISION SCHOLAR OF DISTINCTION AT IUB Allison Moss was named as a University Division Scholar of Distinction, a dis- tinction given to university division students obtaining a 3.7 GPA or above, for spring semester 2018. Allison is at- tending IUB to obtain a de- gree in Tourism, Hospitality, and Event Management. She was a 2017 graduate of Pike Central High School. Pictured are: Allison and Bend, one of the service dogs from ICAN at IU, an organization she's involved in that helps raise money for Indiana Canine Assistance Network and bring aware- ness to service dogs every- where. FERGUSON NAMED TO IU DEAN'S LIST Logan Ferguson, son of Monica Ferguson, of Spur- geon, has been named to the Dean's List in the Indi- ana University School of In- formatics, Computing and Engineering for the Spring 2018 semester, in recog- nition of outstanding ac- ademic achievement. 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LIMITED LIFETIME WARRANTY Fears in Frank's Life Jacey Fears, right, rolls her eyes when her character's mother pulls out the "mugger gun" she bought for her trip to New York City. Fears plays Joy, the irreverent daughter that wants to tell her brother that all the people in his life are actors. "Frank's Life," by the Broadway Players, debuted this past weekend in Princeton. Flex days, personnel changes discussed at specially-called school board meeting By Andy Heuring Two flex days were added to the 2018 -19 Pike County School Calendar and a long list of personnel changes and rehires were approved dur- ing the school board's spe- cial meeting Monday night. Superintendent Suzanne Blake recommended the board add the two flex days to the calendar on Septem- ber 24, 2018, and January 21, 2019. She said the teach- ers' association and admin- istrative team had discussed with her using flex time for planned eLearning for teach- ers to participate in on-site professional opportunities. Blake told the board In- diana's Department of Edu- cation allows flex time with teachers on-site and stu- dents doing eLearning or learning packets for conti- nuity of learning. She said teachers would come into school on those days, while students would remain home. She said this would not replace early dismissal of school on Wednesdays. Blake said there would be things for the teachers to work on during those times as well. "This is a good thing," said board president Chris Satterfield. Blake said last year they had early dismissal every Wednesday for the students and the teachers stayed ev- ery other Wednesday until 4 p.m. However, this year, they will stay every week until 4 p.m. She said often teach- ers were being pulled in two or more directions trying to participate in more than one professional development activity taking place at the same time. She added, the flex days would allow whole building staffs to jointly participate in professional development without having to hire sub- stitutes for all the teachers. It was approved by a 4- 0 vote. Board member Ron Sharp was not in attendance. The board also approved a number of resignations, new hires and a long list of rehires. Resigning were: varsi- ty baseball coach Josh Mc- Donald, Roger Young as Winslow Elementary custo- dian, Makenzie Jines as Al- ternative School Teacher As- sistant and Michael Harville in maintenance. Also resigning was Dustin Powell as a classroom teach- er. Powell was hired recent- ly as high school Athletic Di- rector. Dave Stephens was hired as varsity head football coach. (See related story in Sports section). The oth- er coaches rehired include: Hunter Elliott, head var- sity boys' basketball; Josh Roach, head varsity cross country; Kyle McCutchan, head varsity girls' basket - ball; Mike Bohnert, head varsity swim coach; Beth Bohnert, asst. varsity girls' swim; Missy Sparks, asst. varsity boys' swim; Josh Roach, boys' JV basketball; Jacob Western, boys' basket- ball varsity asst.; Josh Popp varsity wrestling volunteer. Football coaches hired along with varsity coach Dave Stephens include: J.J. Howald, offensive coordina- tor; Caleb Cherry, defensive coordinator; Michael Poteet and Mike Frazier as assis- tants; Kane Osgatharp, Jar- rod Gidcumb, Jayme Kunz and Rodney Loveless as vol- unteer assistants; Dylan Cates as part-time volunteer assistant; and Tony McCar- ghue as volunteer adminis- trative assistant. Middle school football coaches approved were Jer- emy Howald, 8th grade head coach; Jake Robinette, 7th grade head coach; Ken- ny Schultz, assistant coach; and Luke Vinnedge and Ja- cob Marchino as volunteer assistants. Other hires include Sha- ron Deputy as high school secretary and Jamie Jones as bookstore attendance sec- retary. wo teachers hired were Mariah Poteet as English teacher and Scott Gudorf as social studies and econom- ics teacher. They hired Clayton Tyree to a full-time maintenance position and Tim McMillen to a laborer's position. In other business, the school board voted 4-0 to in- crease the rate of pay for bus drivers to $20 per hour for route pay, with a four-hour minimum per day, on the recommendation of Direc - tor of Support Services Todd Harker. That is an increase of $ 3.22- $5.20 per hour from the 2017-18 school year. Bus drivers were also given an in- crease to $15 an hour for ex- tracurricular activities. Last year, they were paid $7.50 to $11.25 per hour for ECA. The other part of the rec- ommendation is to give all drivers five personal days each year with no carry-over to the next year. Instead, drivers will be paid for the days they don't use. Blake said this was an incentive for drivers to not use their per- sonal days. "So this to make us more competitive with other cor- porations? " asked board member Dave Waltz. Harker's letter said three bus drivers had resigned at the end of this school year. Otwell Miller Academy may not be offering health insurance to employees in 2018-19 school year By Ed Cahill Otwell Miller Academy may not be offering health insurance to its employ- ees for the 2018 -19 school year, director Rick Fears announced during a spe- cial-called meeting of the school's board held on Mon- day, June 25. During Monday night's meeting, Fears – after rais- ing the issue of employee in- surance – said that school of- ficials had been in negotia- tions with its current health insurance carrier. Lou Fort, one of two par- ent representatives on the school board, subsequently made a motion to table the matter until the board's next meeting, which was second- ed by Friends of Otwell El- ementary, Ltd., representa- tive Steve Schoppenhorst. "As always, insurance pre- miums have gone up and coverage has gone down," Fears said. "I think every- body's aware of that, wheth- er they take a group plan or a personal plan. We're look- ing at some of the options as far as different companies." "We're also looking at the option of whether even to offer insurance or not next year," Fears contin- ued. "With the number of employees that OMA has, it's something they don't have to do. So, that's what's going on with the insurance right now." Three weeks earlier, dur- ing its regular monthly meeting on Monday, June 4, the Otwell Miller Academy school board voted to dis- continue paying the amount of a health insurance poli- cy's premium contributed by OMA as a stipend to em- ployees who elect not to take the health insurance plan of- fered by the charter school. According to the terms of Otwell Miller Academy's teachers employment agree- ment for the 2017-18 school year, all full-time employ- ees who elected to take a health insurance plan of- fered by the school received a contribution – or "premi- um contributory amount" – from the OMA board of up to $448 per month. Full-time employees who did not take the health in- surance plan offered by the school had the option of re- ceiving the premium con- tributory amount as part of their salary – subject to the appropriate income tax deductions – or as a pay- ment to an IRS -recognized Health Savings Account es- tablished by the employee, up to the amount allowed by the IRS. 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