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Ask Mary Earthquake Drill	2
CSF/CJSF Lane The Brain	3
War Insight Summer Activities	4
Senior Highlights	5
Slippers at School Remodel	6
Highway Issues	7
Broncho Sports	8

Text Box: The Geyserville Unified School District consists of two school sites. The elementary serves children K-5 and was built over 50 years ago. The Educational Park serves grades 6-12 and is over 35 years old. Both facilities were in need of modernization. The electrical systems were not designed for today’s technology, plumbing fixtures have aged, some dry rot had appeared, and wall and floor surfaces were in need of repair. The bond issue last February for 3.5 million dollars was approved by

Text Box: the community and along with a matching federal grant provided the funds for the two-year modernization beginning June 2008. During the summer, construction crews spent many hours at both sites tinkering away at the repairs and completing phase one (2008) in late August. In fact, we were supposed to start school around August 13th but because of various delays, school actually started after Labor Day. Of course we had a longer summer, but the downside is that next summer will be shorter.

Text Box: New elementary and high school bathrooms with all new tile, plumbing fixtures and paint! The lights in the elementary bathrooms come on automatically when you enter the room, how nice is that? It also saves energy! The elementary classrooms received new paint, countertops, and fancy trim work. Both schools also received all new cable wiring for the phone and alarm systems and fiber optic cabling for data. The high school had new wall coverings installed, new bells, new carpets,

Text Box: District Remodel Lindsay Harjak

Text Box: September 29th- the DOW Industrial Average plunges 777 points in the stock market costing the market $1.2 trillion in value. The U.S. is dealing with an ongoing economic crisis and this has been

Text Box: called the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. More people than ever are at risk of losing their homes due to their inability to pay loans with such high interest rates. There has been speculation since early this year that the country

Text Box: was experiencing a recession, and recent turbulence in the market has signaled that this crisis will not be over as quickly as would be hoped. Unemployment has risen to 6.1%, the highest in more than five years. Jobs were being lost at

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