Manheim Township School District is raising money for a scholarship honoring Alexandra Chitwood, a middle school counselor who died of COVID-19 last year, by holding a 5K on Motherâs Day weekend, May 8 and 9.
All proceeds from the Alexandra Chitwood Memorial 5K will fund the Alexandra Chitwood Memorial Scholarship, which was created as a way to remember the educatorâs legacy and continue her work of helping students strive for success.
Due to COVID-19, participants are asked to complete the race at one of three routes. One starts at the tennis courts at Manheim Township High School, another starts at Manheim Township Public Library, and the third starts at the Weaver Fields parking lot at 2883 Weaver Road. Thereâs also the option of creating your own 5K course.
Three schools in the Manheim Township School District will close temporarily due to an uptick in COVID-19 cases, school district spokeswoman Marcie Brody said Monday.
Manheim Township High School and Landis Run Intermediate School will shift to remote instruction Tuesday and Wednesday, and Nitrauer Elementary School will shift online Tuesday only, Brody said.
The moves came after each school met its case threshold determined by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to close a school building for cleaning.
According to COVID-19 data published daily on the school district s website, the high school has four active and two probable cases, the intermediate school has five active and one probable case, and Nitrauer has one active and one probable case.
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Published: 6/14/2017 10:22:32 PM
Editor’s note: An incomplete version of this story was published in the June 15 print edition. Here is the full story.
The second finalist for the ConVal High School principal position, who was vetted out of 100 applicants by a national search firm and a school committee, wasn’t offered the job because of a 2012 lawsuit, according to Superintendent Kim Saunders.
Shannon Mayfield, a former principal at high schools in Pennsylvania with at least 11 years of administrative experience, was one of two finalists picked by the school’s committee, after Ray and Associates Inc., a nationwide school executive search company, helped pare the pool of applicants down to 11. The two finalists Mayfield and Michael Tenters toured the school in May. Tenters was offered the position but declined for personal reasons.
In what seemed like weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic swept from around the globe to our doorsteps. Our lives became like suspended animation as we went home and waited. We found ways to endure â through separation, loss, growth, fear, joy, frustration, change. We ve shifted our expectations and perspective to accommodate new realities.Â
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