It was homecoming week
at Exeter-Milligan. The students celebrated the theme “Up, Up and
Away.”
The entire school
dressed up with some fun costumes starting with throwback day on Monday.
Tuesday was twin day and on Wednesday each class from kindergarten to seniors
were assigned a different color. Thursday was costume day and of course,
Friday was Spirit day.
Winners of the Spirit
Cup challenge for hall decorations were first place to the ninth grade, second
place seventh grade and third place, eighth grade.
All of the
Exeter-Milligan students came to the Exeter football field on Friday afternoon
for the pep rally. The cheerleaders planned the event and started with
the senior football players. The boys had to stack six unwrapped
chocolate snack cakes on their heads and the first to balance them there won the
contest.
The Timberwolves
defeated the Johnson-Brock Eagles 76-14 and after the game, the homecoming
court was introduced.
Homecoming attendants
were Freshmen: Sydney Hall and Cameron White, Sophomores: Marissa Howard and
Sean Maxson, Juniors: Amber Pribyl and Dustin Axline Seniors:
Duchess-Kylie Briske, Duke-Garett Pribyl, Princess-Erica Yound
Prince-Robert Harre, Queen-Brooke Manning, King- Nolan White.
The Exeter-Milligan
School Board and Exeter-Milligan Facilities Joint Public Agency(JPA) Board held
a special meeting on Wednesday, September 25th at 8 p.m. in the
band room. The meeting was advertised as a discussion on the JPA project.
After School Board
President Sharon Kuska opened the meeting, Superintendent Paul Sheffield
presented a power point display looking at the different facts and figures
behind the need the proposed new facility at Exeter-Milligan.
Sheffield explained
that according to a facility study of the district “The Exeter site is 30,000
square feet under the recommended industry standard size for the student
population.”
The study also
determined “the specialized classrooms were undersized.”
After looking at the
current facility and the facility study, the board developed some priority
items, explained Sheffield.
The updates to the
current facilities and a $4.5 million addition are where the school board is
currently looking to make some changes. Included would be a remodel of
the “small gym” which would become a fine arts facility, new locker rooms added
while remodeling the old locker rooms, a new competition gym that would
seat 1,000 comfortably, a multi-purpose room connected to a wellness center
along with a training room, new concession area and new P E coaches office.
Audience members were
given the opportunity to write down their vote for, against or neutral on the
project. The board counted the votes and there were 16 yes, nine no and
one neutral. The board met Monday, September 23rd in Milligan
and the results from the straw poll there were eight yes, one no and one
neutral.
The school board voted
to delay on the project and appointed a committee to work with the
administration to develop materials appropriate materials to take a poll among
constituents and report back to the school board as soon as possible.
During their meeting
September 23 the school board also voted to begin improvements on the field
events for the track in Exeter. They will be redoing the pole vault, long
jump, high jump, discus area and also work to control drainage on the field.
Redoing the entire track has not been approved.
The Exeter-Milligan School Board and the Joint Powers Agreement Board have sent
out a survey to all REGISTERED voters in the district about the proposed
expansion project at Exeter-Milligan. If you are not a REGISTERED voter
you will not receive this survey. If you receive one, please return it as
soon as possible.
