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School Lunch Menus
Plainview School Breakfast Menu Monday, June 17 Sausage patty, biscuit, jelly, fruit, juice, and milk. Tuesday, June 18 Scrambled eggs, toast, jelly, fruit, juice, and milk. Wednesday, June 19 Sausage links, hash browns, fruit, juice and milk. Thursday, June 20 Cereal, bagel w/cream cheese, fruit, juice, and milk. Friday, June 21 No School. Plainview School…
Read MoreSkyline Greatest Showman!
Blake McIntosh takes his position in front of the popcorn stand set up for students at Skyline Summer School. The theme is “Greatest Showman”.
Read MoreSwim Bike Run
Summer School Run, Bike & Swim students continue to train for the TriAthlon set for Tuesday, June 25, at the City Park, from 9 to 11 a.m. If weather is an issue, a rain date is scheduled for June 27. Luke, with Mercy’s Safe Kids program, is shown below giving a safety lesson, and providing…
Read MoreSkyline R-II Board Meets May 23
The Skyline R-II Board meeting met in regular session on Thursday, May 23, with all seven members present. The consent agenda items consisting of Board minutes, bills and financial statement were presented and approved. In old business: The new bus has been ordered and will arrive the first part of August. The u-bolts have…
Read MoreCare to Learn, Crosslines To Host Two Free Food Events
The first food distribution event is Friday, June 14. Crosslines and Care to Learn will facilitate the first of two food distribution give-a-ways to be held on the Ava R-I School campus, the first event begins Friday, June 14, from 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. The second event is slated for Friday, July 19. Food items…
Read MoreDrury Announces Spring 2019 Dean’s List
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (May 30, 2019) – Earning a spot on Drury University’s Dean’s List is a significant accomplishment; it means a student earned a grade point average of 3.6 or greater (on a 4-point scale) while carrying a full-time course load of 12 or more semester hours at Drury. During the spring semester, the following…
Read MoreSchool Lunch Menus
Plainview School Breakfast Menu Monday, June 10 Biscuit & gravy, bacon, fruit, juice & milk. Tuesday, June 11 Cheesy scrambled eggs, toast, jelly, fruit, juice, and milk. Wednesday, June 12 Breakfast pizza, fruit, juice and milk. Thursday, June 13 Cereal, muffin, fruit, juice, and milk. Friday, June 14 No School. Plainview School Lunch Menu Monday,…
Read MoreSchool Busing Audit Recommendations: Pay Raises, New Contract
by Michael Boyink / mike@douglascountyheraldcom The bus drivers wanted to stop. Stop the opinions. Get facts and figures instead. Stop the arguing and divisiveness. Find understanding and agreement instead. So, at the January 17th, 2019 Ava R-1 School Board meeting, the Ava Bus Route Owners Association offered to fund half of an independent audit of the…
Read MoreA Fond Farewell: Seniors to depart, but Ava baseball keeps growing
By Jason Hoekema At the start of the 2019 baseball season, the Bears had only put three batters on base in their 2-0 winning season opener against Van Buren. A blinding number of zeros filled the season’s statistics fields and some of them were true .000s with a large number of underclassmen on the roster. …
Read MoreHeads Held High: Bears fall behind, 4-1, in state quarterfinals
By Jason Hoekema WESTPHALIA – “You have nothing to be ashamed of,” said head coach Rex Sawyer as he spoke to his players along the third base line after the 4-1 loss to Fatima High School in the MSHSAA Class 3 Quarterfinal game on May 15. He isn’t wrong. The Bears have come a long…
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