New hires OK'd for schools

The Grand Coulee Dam School District made a number of new hires and accepted three resignations at the board meeting Monday night.

Hired were Randi Heizer, speech paraprofessional; Sabine Thomas, Middle School Title 1/LAP paraprofessional; Michaelea Black, LRHS nurse/one-on-one; Maria Higgins, LRHS one-on-one visually impaired student paraprofessional; Shannon Hearne, Center Elementary CI/CO discipline paraprofessional; Cherie Shelley, preschool paraprofessional; Ashley Landeros, Center Elementary CI/CO discipline paraprofessional; and Sean Thin Elk, GCDMS Title VII paraprofessional.

Resignations accepted were Melissa Marin, LRHS 10th grade advisor; Frank Whittington, bus driver; and Derek Pulsifer, LRHS/MS music teacher.

Rosella Covington, MS counselor was granted a nine-day leave to go to Europe.