A longtime administrator with the Gainesville City School System has been named the new President and CEO of Elachee Nature Science Center.
Sarah Bell, who currently serves as Deputy Superintendent with the Gainesville City School System, will take the reins from Andrea Timpone on May 1, 2021. I am honored to have been selected to lead this great organization,” said Bell in a statement released by Elachee s Board of Trustees. This community has afforded me so many opportunities and I’m excited to use the skills I have learned while also returning to my first love – science education.
Bell is a native of Gainesville, and she had worked for Gainesville City Schools for 29 years.
Gainesville school system hosts vaccination clinic for 65+, eligible staff Mundy Mill Academy nurse Lanie Parks receives a COVID-19 vaccine Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, as Gainesville City Schools holds a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Mundy Mill Academy for employees in the 1A+ phase. - photo by Scott Rogers
When Sue Byles gets a few minutes between the bumps, Band-Aids and parent phone calls in her work as Fair Street Elementary’s registered nurse, she looks through and maintains the records on vaccinations.
But Thursday, Feb. 4, she and others connected to the Gainesville City Schools were able to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
A vaccination clinic was held Thursday morning in the Mundy Mill Academy gymnasium for those eligible in the 1A+ phase of the vaccine rollout. So far, medical staff, first responders and those ages 65 and older are some of the groups able to request the vaccine in Georgia.
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In some ways, Black said she felt the pandemic tightened the bond between teachers and students. Now if a student is absent, teachers are swift to ensure they’re safe and healthy. If a student is acting differently or upset, there is more of an emphasis to make sure everything at home and mentally is OK, she said.
“For some strange reason, I feel like it s made the teachers and the students grow a little closer. All of us have known somebody who s been sick or has been affected by the pandemic and by COVID,” Black said. “So now we’re seeing the simple question, how are you, mean something different and deeper.”
Have Gainesville City Schools artifacts or memorabilia? Help the district start its Heritage Collection The first soccer ball ever used at a Gainesville High soccer match in 1972 is being donated by Headen Embry to Gainesville City School s new Heritage Collection. The collection will be made up from memorabilia from its schools throughout the years. - photo by Scott Rogers
When Headen Embry graduated from Gainesville High School in the early ‘90s, his English teacher, Calvin Hanrahan, gave him an old soccer ball.
It wasn’t just any ordinary soccer ball, but the one used at his school’s first soccer game in the ‘70s.