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CHESTERLAND NEWS Wednesday, April 29, 2020

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Rotary Club Donates Lunch to UH-Geauga By Emily Crebs news@geaugamapleleaf.com

Caretakers at University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center did not know why firetrucks from five different cities were parked outside the main entrance to the hospital last Thursday morning. A few nurses trickled outside to take pictures of the large U.S. flag suspended in the air between the ladders of two trucks. The grand display was part of a lunch delivery the Chesterland Rotary Club provided — 40 sheet pizzas to feed the entire hospital staff. With a police escort, rotary club President Walter “Skip” Claypool led a procession of club members who honked and yelled “Thank you!” from their cars to the cheering hospital staff. Claypool drove to the front door of UH to make the drop off, his car See Lunch • Page 6

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University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center employees took pictures of the U.S. flag raised by local fire departments. The gesture was in recognition of hospital workers’ service during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chesterland Rotary Club later treated UH employees to a pizza lunch.

Newbury, West G BOEs Cut 10 Positions Each By Ann Wishart ann@geaugamapleleaf.com

While 10 Newbury Schools staff members’ positions were terminated during a special Newbury Schools Board of Education meeting April 15, 25 of the district’s employees will be transferring to West Geauga Schools for the 2020-2021 school year. Board President Maggie Zock said in a phone interview April 17 both districts’ school boards, unions and administrations have been working together to determine how many and which staff members will make the transition when the territory transfer takes place July 1. Details of the negotiations are confidential, but action taken in the

April 15 virtual board meeting can be seen on YouTube at https://youtu.be/JV2Y6HKidnU. Even if a majority of Newbury Schools’ voters had not approved a territory transfer in 2018, the decreased number of students remaining at Newbury Schools would have required a reduction in force of about the same number of staff, Zock said. The positions included a Spanish teacher, intervention specialist, school nurse, speech therapist, computer science teacher, math teacher, guidance counselor, music teacher, social studies teacher and educational assistant. West Geauga Schools Board of Education met virtually April See Schools • Page 2

Markwardt Welcomes Newbury Students

Dear Newbury Parents/Guardians, I hope that you are safe and well as we experience Ohio’s statewide Shelter in Place. I know that this is a stressful time for parents and kids. That is especially true for many of you this year as you prepare to join the West Geauga School community. Stress is an inherent part of change. The understandable restrictions imposed by Governor DeWine have required us to cancel indefinitely many of our plans to introduce your families to West Geauga. We will reschedule those events when it is safe to do so, hopefully sometime this summer. In the meantime, rest assured that we are very pleased to welcome our new students and their families from Newbury. As a long-time resident of Geauga County, I have first-hand knowledge of the historically high quality of Newbury’s graduates. West Geauga is pleased and proud to welcome the Black Knights as members of the Wolverine family. Sincerely, Richard A Markwardt, West Geauga Superintendent of Schools Reprinted from “Knightlines”

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