Newsbriefs

Attendance up

at schools

Grand Coulee Dam schools reported an average of 709 students for the month of February, two students more than was reported in January and 49 students over the budgeted 660 students, and 43 more students than the same month last year.

Treatment plant

down for

maintenance

Electric City’s arsenic treatment plant was shut down Feb. 6, and will be down about three weeks. The shutdown will allow the city to handle the waste material developed during operation. City officials said it wasn’t an emergency, just maintenance.

Fish feeders

needed

The folks that keep the fish pens producing tomorrow’s catches need a little help.

POWER is asking for a few good men to help feed the fish at the Electric City fish pens. It takes about 45 minutes every other day. If you are interested, call one of these men: Ray Burge, 633-2962; Doug Patrick, 633-0860; or Carl Russell, 633-0648.

Making

troupers

of them

Auditions for the Missoula Children’s Theatre production of Aladdin will be held Monday March 2, from 4-6 and 6:30-8:30 p.m., at the Grand Gallery Theatre on Grand Coulee’s Main Street. Those auditioning are encouraged to bring a sack lunch. The performances of Aladdin will be at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday, March 7. The event is sponsored by the PTA.

Contracts

approved

at schools

The school board Monday night approved the following supplemental contracts: Adam Becker, assistant Lake Roosevelt High School track coach; John McNeil, Lake Roosevelt Junior High head track coach; Jaelon Trotter, JOM paraprofessional; and Shelly Black, 11th grade advisor. The board accepted resignations from John McNeil as Lake Roosevelt Junior High assistant track coach (McNeil moves to head coach); and James Van Geystel from LRHS assistant baseball coach. The board denied a request from LaLaina Caddy for a leave of absence as a paraprofessional for the remainder of the year. The board approved a trip to Seattle for the LRHS Spirit Eagle Society March 12-14; and for the band and choir of 25 students to go to Omak.