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Vol. 15, No. 9
Education honors for local residents by Dawnmarie Fehr Correspondent
Two Discovery Bay residents whose lifework is about helping others will receive a big thank-you this month when they are honored for their leadership and service by the Delta Chapter of the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) at a gala event on March 16. Katy Moseley, food services supervisor for the Byron Union School District (BUSD), is receiving a Classified Leader award. Jim Mattison, president and founder of the Discovery Bay Community Foundation (DBCF), will be honored with the Friends of Education award. BUSD Superintendent
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Debbie Gold is proud to have one of her own staff members recognized by her peers. “Byron Union will be honoring Katy Moseley in the area of classified management for her excellent work in food
services,” Gold said. “This is Katy’s second year as cafeteria manager for the district.” Moseley said she feels both humbled and honored to be recognized. “It’s nice to be included
with that caliber of people,” she said. “This is an in-depth job, and it’s nice to be recognized for what we’ve done and changed and for bringing good food to the kids.” Moseley has brought positive changes to the cafeterias of the Byron district, encouraging students to help out in the kitchen and even grow their own produce for salsa. “We have some garden beds at Excelsior by the kitchen that an Eagle Scout built as part of his project, and we decided to get the kids involved and grow some tomatoes and peppers for salsa,” Moseley said. “Our fresh salsa is a big hit. We are the Excelsior Falcons, so we call it Falcon Fire
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The Discovery Bay Community Center is home to the town’s newest project – a community garden. Built in 2013 as part of an Earth Day event, the 30bed garden failed to generate enough interest to keep it going, and water restrictions during the severe drought took their toll as well. Now, town staff members Mac Kaiser and Rhonda Cardwell are giving the garden new roots. “This is an asset the town already has, and it’s just sitting there,” Kaiser said at a recent parks and recreation committee meeting. “It would be nice to get it used and see what grows.”
What grows will depend partly on community help. Since they have sat dormant for several years, the plots are largely overgrown, and town staff needs help getting them ready for planting. Cardwell’s goal is to revive the garden with the help of interested residents, creating a network of local gardeners to lease and maintain the site. “We’ve begun the work, but there is still more to do,” Carwell explained. “We need help getting things cleaned up. This is a community project, where we can all get in there, share ideas and take ownership of the project.” Cardwell has already planted some of the beds to see Garden page 30A
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Rhonda Carwell, Town of Discovery Bay staff member, above, will be on-site for community gardeners to claim a plot or ask questions this Friday and Saturday, at 9 a.m.
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