Staff members shift in Cheney
Cheney Public Schools hired additional staff members and transferred existing staff to fill positions left vacant by retirements, an increase in enrollment and changes to programs.
The following buildings had staff changes:
Cheney High School: Michael Suhling was hired as the new instrumental/band director.
Cheney Middle School: Bill Foster, the former band director at the high school, was transferred to the middle school to fill the same position. Randy Elam joined the staff as a sixth-grade teacher after having taught at Three Springs High School, the district’s alternative program.
Betz Elementary: Renee Collins, a former resource room teacher at Betz, became a part-time kindergarten teacher.
Salnave Elementary: Sally Canton was hired as the blended-preschool teacher.
Sunset Elementary: Michael Horrocks was hired as the vocal/instrumental music teacher. Erica Lebens-Englund was hired as a kindergarten teacher.
Windsor Elementary: Lisa Lordan was hired as a part-time kindergarten teacher. Stephanie Yanuszeski transferred from Salnave to teach fourth grade.
Christmas comes early to NWC
Leaves have barely begun to fall off the maple trees, but elementary and middle school students at Northwest Christian Schools already are thinking about Christmas.
The students are beginning to collect gifts to fill shoe boxes for needy children through a program called Operation Christmas Child. The shoe boxes, filled with toys, school supplies, candy, personal-care items and other small gifts, will be collected in early November and distributed to children in various countries around the world.
Donations will be sent to Colombia, Mexico, the Philippines, China, Chile, Russia, Venezuela, Thailand and Nicaragua, school officials said.
The shoe-box collection campaign will begin today for middle school students and Oct. 25 for elementary students.
Over a 10-year period, Northwest Christian students have filled about 4,000 shoe boxes for the program, the school said. In the United States and 10 other countries, about 7.4 million shoe-box gifts were collected for needy children at Christmas.