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January 13, 2009

Geo-RF, Chrisman to share softball

BY APRIL EVANS

GEORGETOWN — The Georgetown-Ridge Farm School Board agreed to share softball with the Chrisman School District through a sports cooperative Monday.

The agreement will mark the first of its kind for the sport of softball in the district. The two schools currently have cooperative agreements in the sports of cross-country, baseball and track.

“I think it will work out,” Georgetown-Ridge Farm High School Principal Steve Sliva said. “I think it will be good.”

Sliva said there are normally between 18 and 25 girls from Geo-RF who participate in the sport. He won’t know for sure how many students from Chrisman will play until signups, but he anticipates at least four or five girls.

Sliva said he was approached with the softball cooperative idea by the Chrisman district. Costs for the program will be shared proportionately between the schools depending on the numbers of players enrolled.

Play starts the beginning of March.

In other business, board members:

— Approved the lease/purchase bus program changes that will provide the district with four new buses, two large and two small. Two older buses currently possessed will be turned back in and two small buses owned will be sold in August.

The program has been costing the district about $130,000 a year, which will go to about $140,000 annually once the new buses are in place. The program is through Superior Coach Sales of Perrysville, Ind.

The district has about 20 buses total in its possession, now leasing about 12 of those. This switch will allow all regular route buses to be 4 years old or newer.

— Heard that three board member seats are up for re-election this April, but only two petition packets have been picked up in the superintendent’s office. The deadline for filing a petition is Jan. 26.

“It can be a thankless job, but it is a needed job and it is rewarding,” board President Jack Morrison said.

— Hired Penny McKelvey as the Georgetown-Ridge Farm High School guidance counselor.

WHAT’S NEXT

The Georgetown-Ridge Farm School Board will meet at 7 p.m. Jan. 26 at the superintendent’s office.





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