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By Elio Gugliotti, Editor
Woodland Regional High School junior Juliana Rubino, left, and senior Brooke Beard demonstrate how to prepare a patient before transferring the patient from a wheelchair to a hospital bed during a certified nursing assistant class May 20 at the high school in Beacon Falls. âELIO GUGLIOTTI
BEACON FALLS â Woodland Regional High School junior Arlena Michaud has wanted to go into nursing since the eighth grade.
âIâve always wanted to help people,â she said. âI love biology and all things medical.â
Michaud didnât have to wait until after graduation to get started on her nursing path. Michaud, whose mother is a nurse, is one of 15 students in Woodlandâs inaugural certified nursing assistant course this year.
Michael Yamin
PROSPECT The Region 16 Board of Education has given Superintendent of Schools Michael Yamin a new three-year contract.
“As a board, collectively, we’re enthusiastically glad he’s staying with us,” Vice Chairman Robert Hiscox said.
The school board hired Yamin, 52, in 2014 to lead the region, which is comprised of Beacon Falls and Prospect. He worked in the Waterbury school system, including as director of special services and pupil personnel and principal of Kennedy High School, before coming to Region 16.
His new contract runs from July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2024, though the deal includes language that allows him or the board to end it earlier.
By Elio Gugliotti and Andreas Yilma, Citizen’s News
The color guard leads Naugatuck’s Memorial Day parade down Old Firehouse Road in 2019. Naugatuck and Prospect are holding parades again this year to observe Memorial Day. –FILE PHOTO
Naugatuck and Prospect will again observe Memorial Day with parades, a year after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of the traditional commemorations.
The return of the parades comes after the state last week lifted most of the remaining coronavirus-restrictions.
In Naugatuck, the parade will be shorter than residents are used to seeing. Rather than starting in the Union City section of the borough, the parade will step off at 11:30 a.m. May 31 downtown at the intersection of Maple and Water streets. The parade route will head down Maple Street, Old Firehouse Road, Rubber Avenue and Church Street to the Naugatuck Green for a ceremony at 12 p.m.
By Elio Gugliotti, Editor
BEACON FALLS The Region 16 Board of Education has reached terms on a new, three-year contract with the union that represents secretaries, nurses, custodians and other support staff in the district.
The school board on May 12 unanimously approved the contract with the United Public Service Employees Union Local 424. The union represents about 150 employees in the region, which is comprised of Beacon Falls and Prospect. The union also represents paraprofessionals, maintenance staff, cafeteria workers, security staff and technical support technicians.
The contract covers from July 1 through June 30, 2024. Under the contract, employees will receive a 2.5% raise in the first year, but won’t move up a step on the salary scale. In the second and third year, employees will get a 2% raise and move up a step.