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By Mike Eaglowski, Contributing Writer 1:06 PM Wednesday, December 23, 2009

As we get ready to usher in the holidays and say goodbye to 2009, I would like to thank all of you for your tremendous work this year.

I would also like to express my thanks to Ken Davenport for his many years of service to the Mad River Local School District as a Board of Education member.

Furthermore, I would like to welcome Ruth Newhouse to the board of education. Ruth has been very active in the Mad River Booster Organization. She has four children who went to Mad River Schools and graduated from Stebbins High School.

District news

Congratulations to several of our bus drivers who were awarded for their years of safe service to the district. Pins were awarded for one year of safe driving and jackets for five years of safe driving.

Getting pins were Diana Hardin, Connie Back, Barbara Eddy, Amy Lincoln, Becky Leach, Lisa Isaacs, Shelley Hayes, Mike Crawford, Angela Childers, Pam Gunn, Ruby Modras, James Percy, Mike Decirota, Regina Lee, Bob Deam, Pat Kulp, Billie Gordon, Vern Gibson, Stephanie Whittaker and Tracey Gillum.

Getting Pin and Jackets are Carla Hutzel, Kasie Donohue, Liz Morgan, Ronnie Shinlever, Bob Parsons, and Mike Jones. Debbie Gibbs was awared a pin and $100. Congratulations to Amber and Corey Enderby and their two daughters, Erin and Emily, who are the Family of the Year Award in November.

Amber was the parent leader for the Families and Schools Together program the Preschool instituted last year under the direction of Pam Roberts and Mark Ward. Corey is stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Erin attends Stevenson, and Emily goes to the Mad River Early Childhood Learning Center.

Early Childhood Center: The sights, smells, and tastes of preschool have been wonderful as the Frogs and Ladybugs learned about their five senses using a unit about Gingerbread Men and Cookies.

Beverly Gardens: Animals Alive was presented by Booneshoft Museum of Discovery..

Brantwood: First-graders invited siblings to their third publishing party. Brantwood students wrote letters to Santa. Macy’s has a program where they donate $1 to the Make a Wish Foundation for every Santa letter dropped in their North Pole mailbox.

Saville: This year, the Saville Choir performed at Mad River Manor and The Greene.

Stevenson: Santa Shop was a tremendous success this year.

The Stevenson Choir under the direction of Elizabeth Beal, visited Friendship Village. As a special treat, the residents provided Christmas cookies for the choir.

Spinning Hills: Student Council collected 776 food items during their food drive. Spinning Hills’ sixth-grade students traveled to Wright State University for the annual Chemistry Extravaganza.

Mad River Middle: Eighth-grade Team Chippewa students participated in a ribbon activity to better understand the Holocaust, selecting one of three ribbon colors to wear around their wrist for the first 45 minutes of class.

Stebbins: Sophomores in Mr. McGhee’s Construction Technology Program have built a bridge that is 24 feet long and 42 inches wide.

This past week, sophomore engineering students in Jim Prater’s class presented the desktop games that they have designed and built in the classes’ 3-D printer.

MAD RIVER schools Mike Eaglowski

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