April 2022

The Brookfield High School baseball team lined up to greet elementary and middle school students on a recent Friday morning. A new initiative of the Brookfield High School Student Council has been gathering various sports teams and clubs to greet younger students every Friday morning with music, high-fives and positivity. The goal of this is to spread some positivity making students more excited to attend school, and bring young students and their role models together in a constructive way.

Brookfield High School Student Council, with support from administration, was able to plan and execute a surprise assembly for students. The goal of this was to boost morale and bring some joy to students and teachers. The assembly was kept a secret from students and most staff members to make it really feel like a spur-of-the-moment decision when in reality, it was planned a couple of weeks earlier.

Unit 57, Bucklin American Legion Auxiliary sponsored a Red Cross Blood Drive March 29, at the Bucklin Legion hall. Auxiliary President Wilma Jobson stated the Bucklin Auxiliary has hosted three blood drives, since December 2021. Red Cross blood donors are pictured as they wait their turn, as Wilma Jobson enters donor data, at the Bucklin Blood Drive.

The Meadville R-IV School District is asking patrons to pass a No-Tax Increase Bond Issue, that will allow the district to make improvements without increasing district taxpayers school taxes. The language voters will find on their ballot on April 5, will read: “Shall the Board of Education of the Meadville R-IV School District, Missouri, without an estimated increase in the current debt service property tax levy, borrow money in the amount of One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000) for the purpose of providing funds to replace roofs District-wide; to remove asbestos; to install new flooring in four classrooms and the library; to upgrade the electrical infrastructure; to install a new telephone/paging system; to complete classroom upgrades; to purchase new computers for teachers; to complete parking lot improvements; to the extent funds are available, complete other repairs and improvements to the existing facilities of the District; and issue general obligation bonds for the payment thereof ? If this proposition is approved, the adjusted debt service levy of the School District is estimated to remain unchanged at $1.0500 per one hundred dollars of assessed valuation of real and personal property.” Meadville R-IV School Superintendent Misty Adamek said, “The April 5, No-Tax Increase Bond Issue will not raise patron’s current school taxes.