Cycling Without Age uses 3-wheeled bike to go at slow and steady pace

Photos by Tom Rivers: Susan Walders rides a tri-shaw bike down the sidewalk along East Avenue on Saturday. She practicing as a “pilot” with the new bike. She looks forward to soon giving senior citizens rides on the bike, which has space for two people in front. There will be a demonstration at Bullard Park this Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for people to try out the bike as either pilots or riders.

ALBION – Susan Walders is eager to take local senior citizens out for a bike ride.

Walders pushed to create a chapter of Cycling Without Age in Orleans County and the group’s new tri-shaw, a 3-wheeled bike, arrived after being shipped from Denmark.

The bike has a padded seat in front for two people. The “pilot” pedals in back on the electric bike. Walders has been practicing as a pilot since the tri-shaw arrived about two weeks ago.

Susan Walders pushed to open a chapter of Cycling Without Age in Orleans County. She wants to make the cycle available to residents at nursing homes, assisted care sites and other care facilities, including those with developmental disabilities.

There will be a demonstration this Sunday, Sept. 10, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Bullard Park in Albion for people to get rides or to be pilots.

Walders and Cycling Without Age want to make the bike available to residents at nursing homes, assisted care facilities and other “care” sites, including those serving people with disabilities.

The launch party at Bullard will offer rides about every 15 minutes. It takes about 6 to 8 minutes to complete the crusher-run walking/jogging trail at the park.

“We want to show people what this is all about,” Walders said on Saturday at Bullard.

She has been training on the bike to build up her endurance and get comfortable with maneuvering it. She said it is very sturdy. The goal is to go on slow rides so the seniors and other passengers can enjoy the scenery.

“We want to get people out of their rooms and into the community and nature,” Walders said. “They can feel the wind in their hair. Getting outside on this bike will improve mood and socialability.”

Walders, 57, lives in Albion. She is a customer service representative for Yahoo! in Lockport, although she is able to work from home.

Her mother, Janet Ridley, is a resident at The Willows, an assisted care residence in Medina. Walders said she was researching ways to enrich her mother’s life as a resident of a care facility. A Facebook page popped up about Cycling Without Age.

Walders was intrigued by the group which started in 2012 by Ole Kassow in Copenhagen, Denmark. His focus was to get elderly and disabled people out for bike rides that are free. Kassow wanted people to feel less lonely and build a bridge between generations.

The organization has grown to chapters in more than 40 countries. The chapter in Orleans County is the first in Western New York. (Click here to see a map and information about the chapters in the United States.)

Susan Walders said the electric bike is pretty easy to maneuver. She welcomes more volunteers to be “pilots” to pedal and steer the bike.

Walders started working on forming a chapter about 18 months ago. The group has a board of directors.

The process went faster than she expected due to a donation from the First United Methodist Church of Albion.

The bike cost $12,000, with $2,500 to have it shipped. There also were legal fees to form the organization and insurance to offer the service. Walders said the United Methodist congregation agreed to cover the bulk of those expenses. Walders also secured other donations and sold items that she crocheted and knitted.

“We wouldn’t be here without the First United Methodist Church,” she said.

Now she needs people willing to be given rides, and pilots to do the pedaling. That’s why Cycling Without Age will be doing the launch arty and demonstration at Bullard on Sunday.

“This might be our first bike because I really want this to grow,” Walders said. “We could do group rides in the future.”

She said the tri-shaw could be taking to care facilities, or residents could be brought to a location with a safe path to go biking. Walders really likes the canal towpath as an option. The route could include a stop to get ice cream.

 Cycling Without Age may set up a rotating schedule for residents in the local care sites. She said she may also take the bike to other nearby counties if there is a demand.

The bike was made by Copenhagen Cycles in Denmark. It was shipped to Lake Breeze Bicycle in Lyndonville, where it was assembled and inspected. Walders and Cycling Without Age have had the bike for about a week.

“I can’t wait to give my mom a ride on this and some of her friends,” Walders said.

For more information, check the Facebook page for Cycling Without Age in Orleans County or the group’s website (click here).

ALBION – Village of Albion officials want to pursue a $4.5 million Forward NY grant that would help revitalize the downtown in a program that aims to support a vibrant and year-round economy.

The village has scheduled meetings for 6 p.m. on Sept. 5 and Sept. 12 at the Village Hall, 35-37 East Bank St.

The village is working with its grant writer, G & G Municipal Consulting and Grant Writing, to determine if there is enough interest and potential projects for the grant.

The village and G & G want to hear from businesses, cultural organizations, developers, non-profit organizations and landowners.

Potential projects could include:

• new construction (residential, mixed use, hotel, etc.)
• renovation of existing buildings
• facade improvements
• renovation of new retail, office, co-working, commercial, industrial, recreational or cultural use

For more information, contact the village’s grantwriter at info@ggprocess.com.

The Village of Medina was awarded the $4.5 Forward NY grant in February and has a committee working to identify projects for the funding, with the state to the give a final review of the projects.

The Forward NY grants were added by the state last year and are modelled after the $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative. The DRI grants tended to go to cities. The state added the Forward NY program to include more villages and help those smaller municipalities move forward projects in the downtown areas and near the waterfront.

The Albion summer concert series concludes this evening with the Geneseo Wind Quintet.

The performance has been moved from the amphitheater at Bullard Park to the Albion Town Hall on Clarendon Road due to a forecast of windy weather. The concert starts at 6 p.m.

Members of the Quintet include: Angela McBrearty on Flute, Megan Kyle on Oboe, Andrew Brown on Clarinet, Martha Sholl on Bassoon, and Nathan Ukens on French Horn;

All are faculty members of the music department at SUNY Geneseo. Kyle, Brown, Sholl and Ukens are all members of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

The Quintet will be playing pieces by Piazzolla, Sweelinck, Resphigi, Ibert and Musczinski.

Photos by Tom Rivers

ALBION – Orleans County Historian Catherine Cooper leads a tour of old St. Joseph’s Cemetery on Sunday evening in Albion. Here she stops at the gravesites for the Spada family.

Francesco Spada (1864-1933) and Melania Spada (1871-1951) had 12 children, but only six survived. One of their sons, Peter (Pietro) died in 1907 after jumping off a canal bridge. The loss of their teen-age son devastated Francesco, a quarryman, who made the grave marker out of Medina sandstone. He poured his grief and love into the grave marker.

Francesco later contracted polio, Cooper said.

He came to Orleans County from Alfedena, Italy, a community where many of the quarry artisans lived before coming to work in the Medina sandstone quarries.

Catherine Cooper and a group of about 50 people on the tour are near the entrance of St. Joseph’s Cemetery on Brown Road. The 3-acre cemetery opened in 1873 and has about 1,500 burials.

It closed in the early 1920s when the Catholics opened a new St. Joseph’s cemetery on Route 31. There have been burials in the older cemetery in recent years at some of the family plots.

Catherine Cooper shows the grave stone for Patrick McCabe, an Irish immigrant who died at age 75 in 1874.

St. Joseph’s is the final resting place for many Italian, Irish, German and Polish immigrants who were Catholics.

The cemetery was also known as “Holy Cross Cemetery.” Many of the gravestones have crosses carved in the stone or prominently featured at the top of the grave markers.

Bill Lattin, retired Orleans County historian, noted that many of the gravestones and monuments were made of Medina sandstone. That differs from the sites at Mount Albion Cemetery, where granite and other stone were more sought after. Those families didn’t want a common stone, often used for curbs and street pavers, for grave monuments.

But at St. Joseph’s, where many of the immigrants worked in the quarries, they wanted the Medina sandstone. That stone is what sustained many families in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Bill Lattin said many of the symbols and images carved into the stone are great examples of folk art. These hands, a man’s at right and woman’s at left, are on a monument written in Italian.

A statue of Mary is set on a big base of Medina sandstone. Two of the statues at the cemetery used to be down the street at the former St. Mary’s Catholic Church. They were moved after the church was closed by the Catholic Diocese in 2007.

Catherine Cooper stops by the grave for Civil War veteran John Frost. A new headstone for Frost was unveiled in 2016 as a project by Albion seventh-graders and former County Historian Matt Ballard.

A review of cemetery records showed Frost did not have a headstone. Frost was a principal musician (chief bugler) for the 33rd New York Infantry and also the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division of 6th Corps.

The seventh-graders worked with the Veterans Service Agency in Orleans and Niagara counties to secure a headstone for Frost. The marble stone was unveiled on April 30, 2016 during a service at the cemetery.

Frost was born in England on June 22, 1836. At age 13 he left for the United States with his father John and brother Edward on the Northumberland. They arrived in New York City on April 18, 1850 and moved to South Barre. In 1860, Frost was working as a farmer. He enlisted in the Union Army in his mid-20s and served three years.

Frost had the rank of musician, which was just below corporal and just above private. In the Civil War, musicians were relied upon to entertain troops, position troops in battle and stir them on to victory.

Frost, according to the 1880 Census, was married to Margaret Cusack and had five children, ages 14, 11, 9, 6 and 4.

The tour at St. Joseph’s was part of Sunday evening cemetery tours this month, a series planned by the Orleans County Historical Association. The final tour is this Sunday at 6 p.m. at Boxwood Cemetery in Medina. Todd Bensley, the Medina historian, is leading the tour.

Photo by Tom Rivers: Betty Sue Miller, the Hoag Library director, gives blood last Dec. 17 during a blood drive at the library. It was her first time giving blood. Her husband Fred Miller has given more than 20 gallons over several decades.

Press Release, Hoag Library

ALBION – Hoag Library will host a community blood drive with the American Red Cross this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 134 South Main St.

“Hosting a blood drive coincides with Hoag Library’s core values of giving back to the community,” said Betty Sue Miller, library director. “With a simple blood donation, we have the ability to help save the life of someone who could be a coworker, loved one or neighbor.”

Blood is routinely transfused to patients with cancer and other diseases, premature babies, organ transplant recipients and trauma victims, according to the Red Cross.

Donors of all blood types are needed, especially those with types O negative, B negative and A negative. According to the Red Cross, type O negative is the universal blood type that can be safely transfused to anyone, and is often used to treat trauma patients.

For more information or to make an appointment to donate, click here for more information.

Press Release, Albion Central School

ALBION – The Albion school district will be offering free breakfast and lunch for all students throughout the 2023-24 academic year.

As part of the federal Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) program, each student grades K-12 will be offered a free breakfast and lunch every day.

“We are proud to announce that Albion Central School District will be offering all of our students two free meals a day,” said Mickey Edwards, superintendent of Albion Central School. “It is important that when our students enter their classroom they are ready to learn and that starts with a full belly at the beginning of the day. The more we can set them [our students] up for success, the better.”

In order to continue this wonderful program for our entire district, it is extremely important that families who meet the income eligibility guidelines complete the Household Income Eligibility Form (click here).

The completed applications should be returned to:

1. Mail to: Albion CSD Re: CEP Form 324 East Avenue, Albion, NY 14411

2. Fax: 585-589-2059

3. Email: kmcgaffick@albionk12.org

We are excited to be able to provide this opportunity to our students and their families.

Please contact Katie McGaffick at (585) 589-2056 with any questions.

This evening’s tour features the old St. Joseph’s Cemetery on Brown Road

Photos by Tom Rivers

ALBION – Sue Starkweather Miller, the Village of Albion historian, speaks during last Sunday’s tour of Mount Albion Cemetery.

She is at the grave of Elizabeth Babcock, who made about 100 Santa suits a year as owner of the Santa Claus Suit and Equipment Company. She made the suits for many years with the late Charles Howard, who established a Santa School and later Christmas Park in Albion.

Babcock died in 2006 and is a member of the International Santa Claus Hall of Fame.

She was included in last week’s tour of Mount Albion. The Orleans County Historical Association is planning different cemetery tours each Sunday evening in August, beginning at 6 p.m.

The first tour on Aug. 6 was at Hillside Cemetery and was led by Melissa Ierlan, the Clarendon town historian.

The remaining schedule includes:

• August 20 (today): Old St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Brown Road, Gaines – Presented by Catherine Cooper, Orleans County Historian.
• August 27: Boxwood Cemetery, North Gravel Road, Medina – Presented by Todd Bensley, Village of Medina Historian.

About 60 people attended the tour at Mount Albion, which was led by Starkweather Miller and Bill Lattin, the retired county historian.

Here they are shown at the grave of Lansing Bailey, a pioneer resident of Orleans County. Bailey owned 268 acres and survived malaria and encounters with bears.

Bill Lattin speaks at monument for the Whitmore family. It has oaks and acorns, which are symbols for strength and endurance.

Some of the stops on the tour included:

• Alice Wilson, who was murdered by her husband, George in 1887. He was the only man executed in Orleans County. He was hanged outside the courthouse in 1888.
• Jennie King, she wrote for local journalism for 68 years with the Orleans Republican as a printer and editor an then the Albion Advertiser as an editor.
• Weston Wetherbee, Orleans County sheriff and amateur astronomer.
• Chester Bartlett – Sheriff during the arrest and trial of Charles Stielow, accused and convicted of a double murder in Shelby. He was found innocent in a landmark case showing ballistic forensics.
• Skinner/Harding trolley accident – a tragedy for two families when their car is hit by a trolley on March 7, 1915 and four children perish on their way home from Sunday School. Alfred Skinner was driving a Cole automobile when a passenger trolley came around a curve and struck the vehicle, killing Mildred and Helen Skinner, and Marion and Herschel Harding. Mr. Skinner and one of his daughters survived the accident.
• Emily Pullman, sister of railroad tycoon George Pullman, she married a doctor William Fluhrer, who invented a device to remove bullets from the brain.
• Stuart John Flintham, whose egg collection is on display at Hoag Library, was a distinguished forester, and was the first head forester, fire warden and fish & game for the Los Angeles County Fire Department. He died fighting a fire in 1925.

Photos by Tom Rivers

ALBION – Trio Ghidorah, a classical guitar trio, performed on Saturday at Hoag Library in Albion for about 50 people. The group includes Ken Luk, Bernardo Marcondes and Erik Gibelyou.

The three musicians formed their group while pursuing their doctoral degrees at the Eastman School of Music. The trio creates arrangements for three guitars of music not originally written for the instrument, including works by Stravinsky, Mozart, and Philip Glass.

They were the fifth performers in a new concert series at Hoag this year.

The remaining schedule includes:

• Sunshine Quan: Saturday, September 23, at noon
• Maya Ana Loncar: Saturday, Oct. 14 at noon
• Rochester Mandolin Orchestra, Saturday, Nov. 4 at noon
• Dr. Lynn McGrath, Saturday, Dec. 9 at noon

The concerts are free to the public with support from the Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council and Friends of Hoag Library.

Bernardo Marcondes, left, and Erik Gibelyou are shown during the concert on Saturday.

Trio Ghidorah released its debut album, Dances and Fantasies, in March 2021.

The trio has performed frequently in the Rochester area. Their concert programs include music from the classical canon, contemporary works and Latin American music.

Ken Luk performs during the concert. Luk is an active performer, educator and arranger of classical guitar and mandolin.

Photos by Tom Rivers

ALBION – Motorcyclists start a 118-mile ride today, leaving at the Elks Lodge on East State Street. The dice run is a fundraiser for the Jason Johnston scholarship.

That scholarship is in memory of Jason Johnson, who was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Dec. 26, 2009. Johnston was a specialist and paratrooper in the Army. He was on his second tour in Afghanistan. He completed a 13-month-deployment in 2008 and left again for the war-torn country in October 2009.

The $1,000 annual memorial scholarship that goes to a student pursuing a career in a helping profession, such as a nurse, doctor, firefighter, counselor or other social services.

“The recipient of the award should be of good character, show dedication, effort and potential while working to the best of their,” according to a description of the scholarship provided by the Elks. “Specialist Johnston believed in the Golden Rule – ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’”

The riders gather at the start of the ride.

The Elks Lodge will be serving food later this evening the band Begging Angels will perform. That event is open to the community with a $5 cover charge.

Mike Clemons served as ride captain for more than 50 riders. He welcomes the group for the 10^th annual ride as a memorial for Johnston. The Albion Elks Riders organized today’s ride.

The riders broke into three groups and staggered the starts every 20 minutes. The route included stops at the Elks in Lockport, the Silo in Lewiston and the Open Air Bar in Newfane.

Brad Johnston, Jason’s father, joins the other riders for a pre-ride talk, where they shared the Pledge of Allegiance and a prayer. Brad has been part of all 10 rides in memory of his son.

There is memorial stone for Jason Johnston at the Elks Lodge in Albion.

Ted Farwell

An Albion native whose family runs a crop-dusting business was killed on Saturday in a helicopter crash.

Theodore “Ted” Farwell, 39, works with Triple F Flying with his father Rick and brothers Joe, Will and Jesse.

The family bases the crop-dusting business out of Albion on County House Road and in Benton in central Pennsylvania. The Farwells have been in the crop-dusting business since 1999.

Ted Farwell lived near the Benton base of operations with his wife Jessie and their three children. A fourth child is due in January.

Farwell was flying a helicopter on Saturday morning when he hit an electrical line, which then downed the Bell 47G-5. The helicopter caught on fire after crashing. Farwell was removed from the helicopter and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to multiple media reports in Pennsylvania.

The son of Rick and Pam Farwell, Ted is a 2002 Albion graduate. He has a large extended family in the Albion area.

His funeral is 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Stillwater Christian Church in Stillwater, Pa. Contributions for Ted’s wife and children may be sent to the Stillwater Christian Church, 39 McMichael Street, Stillwater, PA 17878, and note “Farwell Fund” on any donations.

Photos by Tom Rivers

ALBION – Today is the annual Holy Family Lawn Fete in Albion. This group is running the Merchandise Wheel on a closed off West Park Street, from Main to Librarty.

They include, from left: Debbie Groden, Mindy Warne, Leah Warne and Samantha Bouche. Leah and Samantha are both starting fourth grade next month.

At the Merchandise Wheel, $1 gets three tokens to win a prize. “You spin until you win,” Mindy Warne said.

Alan Worgo, front, and Doug Miller check out some of the raffle baskets available at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. There are 150 baskets available.

The Lawn Fete continues until 5 p.m. today and is a fundraiser for the Holy Family Parish.

Janet Navarra sets out pies that are for sale, as well as produce in a booth run by th Ladies of Charity. Many of the 100 pies quickly sold after the Lawn Fete started at noon.

Mike Fischer, left, and Mike Grabowski are working the grill with hot dogs, sausage and hamburgers. Pasta fagioli, goulash, salt potatoes and other food is available.

There are also kids’ games, pull tabs and a 50/50 drawing, a wine toss and other activities.

The Catholic Daughters – Gayle Ashbery, Darla Swierczynski and Jan Albanese – are giving away rosaries and book, Empire State Catholics – A History of the Catholic Community in New York State. The foreword includes a photo of the altar and murals at St. Joseph’s in Albion. The Ladies of Charity are making the books available for free.

Provided photo

POINT BREEZE – Albion’s Class of 1958 gathered today at the Black North Inn for the class’s 65^th reunion.

Pictured in front row, from left: Allport, Martha Standish, Patricia Gaze Harrold, Marlene Finney Graham and Jim McGlen.

Second row: Adrienne Daniels, Helen Grzywacz Wilkens, Marjorie Narburgh McWethy, Stanley Pieniaszek, Janel Koch Edwards, Ella Mae D’Angelo Caroll, Ben Canham, Sibyl Dale Pilon, Judy Bruski Newton, David Wells, Lynn Roy Blackburn and Ken Laubacher.

ALBION – The Albion school district is seeking state approval for free breakfasts and lunches to be offered to all students this school year.

Albion has applied to the state Department of Education to be included in the Community Eligibility Provision of the National School Breakfast/Lunch Program.

To qualify, a district or school building must have an Identified Student Percent (ISP) of at least 40 percent. Albion is at 51 percent, and that number has increased since Albion last looked at being in the program in 2018, said Rick Recckio, Albion’s school business administrator.

The ISP isn’t determined by student eligible for free and reduced lunch. Instead it depends on SNAP and Medicaid recipients identified through the electronic direct certification matching process (DCMP) and extension of these eligibility benefits to siblings or other household members not matched. It also includes homeless children identified by the homeless liaison, Head Start students, migrant, runaway and foster children certified directly by the state or local foster agency, Recckio said.

“We submitted our application to the state and we are working with them to transition to CEP from our current program allowing all students to have free breakfast and lunch,” he said. “This is not a guarantee as the state needs to approve us in order to offer this program. This would be funded by the state and federal government.”

Recckio and Albion school officials are hoping the state Education Department will make a decision on Albion’s application before the start of the school year.

The state budget for 2023-24 increased state spending by $134 million for school districts to participate in CEP.

“For kids to be successful in school, they can’t sit there with their stomachs growling — they’re hungry,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said in announcing the funding increase. “They need nutritious food to focus and thrive.”

Rate is about $4 lower for towns that completed revaluations

ALBION – Property owners where towns have completed reassessments will see a sharp decline in their school tax rate in the Albion school district.

The Albion Board of Education approved the final tax warrant on Monday. The district isn’t increasing the tax levy again this year. It remains at $8,449,039. This is the 15th time in the past 17 years that the levy has either stayed the same or gone down.

But not all towns have the same tax rate because some towns have put off town-wide reassessments or revaluations.

Carlton, Kendall, Ridgeway and Shelby all are doing the reassessments this year. Barre and Clarendon did them last year, while four other towns – Albion, Gaines, Murray and Yates are waiting. Some town officials was to see if the real estate sales boom will cool off.

For towns that haven’t done town-wide reassessments, the state uses equalization rates to try to make sure those property owners are paying their fair share of the taxes.

Carlton, Kendall, Ridgeway and Elba all did townwide reassessments this year. Their total assessed values went up and their tax rates went down to $10.87 per $1,000 of assessed property. Carlton’s school tax rate was $14.63 a year ago.

Albion and Gaines, which are now four years without a town-wide reassessment, will have their property values billed at a $14.69-rate per $1,000 of assessed property.

The tax warrant approved by the board on Monday includes the following for the towns in the Albion school district:

• Albion, 74 percent equalization rate; $14.69 school tax rate; $1.14 library tax rate ($15.83 total)
• Barre, 90 percent equalization rate; $12.08 school tax rate; 94-cent library tax rate ($13.02 total)
• Carlton, 100 percent equalization rate; $10.87 school tax rate; 84-cent library tax rate ($11.71 total)
• Gaines, 74 percent equalization rate; $14.69 school tax rate; $1.14 library tax rate ($15.83 total)
• Kendall, 100 percent equalization rate; $10.87 school tax rate; 84-cent library tax rate ($11.71 total)
• Murray, 70 percent equalization rate; $15.53 school tax rate; $1.20 library tax rate ($16.73 total)
• Ridgeway, 100 percent equalization rate; $10.87 school tax rate; 84-cent library tax rate ($11.71 total)
• Elba (Genesee County), 100 percent equalization rate, $10.87 school tax rate; 84-cent library tax rate ($11.71 total)

The district has a total assessed value of $632.2 million. That includes $236.2 million in the Town of Albion, $145.7 million in Carlton, $135.7 million in Gaines, $106.7 million in Barre, $6.0 million in Murray, $1.2 million in Kendall and $251,914 in Ridgeway.

The 2022 tax rates included:

• Albion – $14.63 school, $1.12 library ($15.75 total)
• Barre – $12.14 school, 93 cents library ($13.07 total)
• Carlton – $14.63 school, $1.12 library ($15.75 total)
• Gaines – $14.63 school, $1.12 library ($15.75 total)
• Kendall – $14.99 school, $1.15 library ($16.14 total)
• Murray – $15.57 school, $1.20 library ($16.77 total)
• Ridgeway – $15.98 school, $1.23 library ($17.21 total)
• Elba, $12.14 school, 93 cents library ($13.07 total)

Board also approves many appointments for 2023-24 school year

The Board of Education on Monday approved the following appointments:

• Jessica Beal as Committee on Special Education chairperson
• Samuel Levine as English 7-12 teacher at high school
• Winter Dumont as ESOL teacher (English for speakers of other languages) at the elementary school
• Shawn Haseley as high school social studies teacher
• William Nice as cleaner
• Barbara Carpenter as teacher aide at high school
• Santino Morales as teacher aide at high school
• Jessica Giangregorio as teacher aide at elementary school
• Stacie Castricone as teacher aide at elementary school
• Giovaneth Kirsch as teacher aide at elementary school

The following extracurricular appointments were approved:

• Kailey Winans and Elliott Michki as high school play and musical directors

The following extracurricular athletic appointments were made:

• Sarah McCormick, fall athletic ticket manager
• Michael Sanders, assistant varsity football coach
• Daniel Ward, assistant JV football coach
• Chad Owen, JV head football coach
• Chase Hall, modified football coach
• Jami Allport, varsity/JV cheerleading coach