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Congratulations to all the Dardanelle band students for a great year at solo and Ensemble.

Solo and Ensemble Participants

By: Heather Gordon

The Dardanelle RenaissanceRestoration held a local talentcompetition on Saturday, March15, at the Dardanelle Commu-nity Center.

There were two different agegroups, one consisted of childrenup to age 15, and the other wasadults ages 15 and up.

First, second, and third placeswere announced after both agegroups completed their talents.

For the children’s division firstplace went to Jimmy Abarca,second was Chloe Fulton, andthird place went to Jesus, Mario,and Leonel Mendez.

In the adult’s category HeatherGordon won first place, secondplace went to Katherine Mar-tinez, and third was Kara Kelly-brew.

Total contestants all togetherwere 14, four for the adults and10 for the children. Also threejudges evaluated each perform-ance. Kyle Wyatt, Corey Austin,and Pedro Garza were the se-lected judges of the talent com-petition.

Names of all participants are asfollows: Gloria Wilfong, AmySmith, Ivy Pierce, Ema Stan-dridge, Chloe Fulton, PatriciaGrace McIntyre, Jesus, Mario,and Leonel Martinez, JimmyAbarca, Payton Hales, andMichelle Simmons.

For the adult division the con-testants were Heather Gordon,Katherine Elizabeth Martinez,Kara Kellybrew, and Kody Graf.

Dardanelle Renaissance Restoration Talent Show

For the adult division the first place winner was Heather Gordon, second place went to

Katherine Martinez, third was Kara Kellybrew, and fourth was Kody Graf. (Photo by

Rashad Woods)

In the children’s division from left to right was first place winner Jimmy Abarca, secondwas Chloe Fulton, and third place went to Jesus, Mario, and Leonel Mendez. (DPD Photoby Rashad Woods)

Judges Pedro Garza, Kyle Wyatt, and Corey Austin evaluatedeach performance during the talent show held by the Renais-sance Restoration. (by Rashad Woods)

The Board of Education metMonday evening, March 10, fortheir regular meeting. Furtheraction items listed below.

Employment:Approved the following con-

tract addendums for the 2014-2015 school year:

Primary CounselorPrimary Parent Coordinator

Jean FurrElementary Parent Coordinator

Kim WalterMiddle School Parent Coordinator Middle School Professional Dev Facilitator

Cynthia HudgeonsHigh School Parent CoordinatorHigh School Professional Development Facilitator

Jan GeorgeESL Parent CoordinatorESL Professional Development Facilitator

Renewed the following certi-fied staff contracts for the2014-2015 school year:

Primary (K-3)Diana Adaire, Denise Adkison,

Lori Baker, Jennifer Barnes, Jill

Baugh, Gail Bradley, Joy Cain,Annette Childress, Jade Davis,Theresa Dennis, Margie Ennis,Tera Farnam, Terri Fox, TammyGentry, Elizabeth George, LindaGibson, Marlene Graves, SarahHardaway, Lynne Higgin-botham, Nancy Johnson, TeenaKelly, Lisa Lawrence, CheyenneLott, Shayne Manning, SheilaMcCarty, Heather Meeker, TeriMerritt, Angela Moore, VandyMoore, Carina Ortiz, MelissaScott, Karen Solomon, CarolSpears, Sheri Sykes, ChristieTalley, Iva Taylor, ShannonThomas, Terry Thone, Sandi Tut-tle, Kristen Weatherall, EmilyWesley

Intermediate (4-5)Rebekah Avila, Rachelle

Brown, Tosha Cain, DanielleCheatham, Amanda Collins,Brittany Curtis, JacquelineErwin, Sunny Foster, Jean Furr,Chris Grace, Tonya Hernes,Mary Lou Lane, Juliann Lo-Porto, Terry McElligott, NikkiMitchell, Shannon Rose, LisaSanderock, Marty Shepherd,Brad Smith, Lori Stokes, DianaStolarz, Laura Strauser, AmyWade

Middle School (6-8)Malorie Berry,Deanna Bishop,

Michael Bramlett, Mary Buford-Corkins, Kole Carpenter, Janet

Cheatham, Becky Childres, JoeChildres, Tina Cornwell, AnnetteCossey, Laurie Gagne, MaunetteGateley, Jacque Gilbert, LyndseyHill, Lisa Huelle, Lori James,Gary Jernigan, Will McCrotty,Amy Montgomery, Stacy Myers,Jessica Ross, Katina Smith,Sherri Streety, Russell Sturdi-vant, Ashley Tyler, ChrystalVega, Kim Walter, Shawn Wal-ter, Polly Watson, Zachary Whit-worth, Tammy Williamson

High School (9-12)Meagan Allen, Teresa Balloun,

Marilyn Bryson, Sue Busch, SueChiolino, Randy Cole, ChristyDuffel, Myra Everette, Paul Far-nam, Elizabeth Franks, JanettaFreeman, Steve Freeman, BruceFutterer, Sherrye Futterer, EricGamble, Randi Gamble, LonnaGae Gault, Divella Gray, BryanHardaway, Clay Hooten, CindyHudgeons, Rick James, MichaelKeen, Kenneth McCoy, BrendaMcCurdy, Lezlee Pierce, JoshPrice, Kris Ridenour, Erin Robi-son, Sonya Scruggs, DeborahSeay, Pam Stille, JenniferStottman, Catherine Taylor, PhilVega, Mashella Wade, JaredWhite, Jasmine White, SandyWilliams, Jeff Woods, KellyWurst, Major Larry Yarbrough

ESL CoordinatorsJan George, Silba Galan

Board of Education Announces Teachers

The Dardanelle SchoolDistrict will be having a spe-cial called board meeting onWednesday, March 19, 2014at 5:30 p.m.

On the agenda:

A. Student Discipline Mat-ter

B. Petition for StudentTransfer

C. Authorize Superintend-ent to solicit proposals forindependent audit

D. 2013-2014 AmendedCertified and ClassifiedSalary Schedules (2%) in-crease for all employees)

E. 2014-2015 AmendedCertified Staffing Plan. (Ad-dition of 1 position at highschool)

Dardanelle SchoolBoard Has Call Meeting

Dardanelle High School students in the after school enrichment program ran by Mr. ClayHooten. They meet every Wednesday for an eight week session. They performed at the schoolboard meeting Monday night, and played “Amazing Grace”, and the group finished with theirown mix to Zac Brown Band “Chicken Fried.” Students include Jose Castelano, JonathanHelms, Luke Bartlett, Tyler Cooley, Katherine Castilla, Saidy Diaz, Sam Johnson, YuritziRamirez, Rebecca Henderson, Jesus Mendez and Hayden Cotton .(not in any order) (DPD Photoby Rashad Woods)