Westside Messenger - February 10th, 2019

PAGE 4 - WESTSIDE MESSENGER - February 10, 2019
By Dedra Cordle
Staff Writer
The Infinite Campus in the South-
Western City Schools District is set to
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10:00 a.m. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Wednesday Bible Study
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Columbus, OH 43228
614-279-6395
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10:45 AM Worship Services
6:30 PM Sunday Evening
7:00 PM Wednesday Bible Study
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In Education
expand.
At the Jan. 28 board of education meeting,
food services supervisor Lisa Hamrick
announced that the department will soon
be making the transition to the online portal.
“We are very excited about this,” she
told the board.
According to Hamrick, the department
will be adding point of sale capabilities that
will allow parents to have access to account
activities and balances, including those
who request free or reduced breakfast and
lunches.
“Having one system to log onto will really
speed up the process and make it more
efficient,” she said.
Though an emphasis will be placed on
online applications, Hamrick said they will
not do away with paper applications.
“We will still be allow those,” she said.
There will, however, be the elimination
of PayPAMS as the department transitions
to the Infinite Campus.
“We will no longer be using those,” said
Hamrick.
The transition to the Infinite Campus
will come at the beginning of August,
weeks before the start of the 2019/20 school
year. Hamrick said they didn’t want to
make the switch during a school year that
was already in progress.
The district began using the Infinite
Campus in 2012 as a way to allow parents
access to their children’s academic reports
and class schedules, and to update emergency
contact information through online
tools and applications. It can now also be
used to update medications, health information,
pay school fees and contact teachers.
In related food services news, Hamrick
said more students are eating breakfast
and lunch.
“Our numbers continue to grow for
breakfast and lunch,” she said.
According to Hamrick, more than 6,900
students eat breakfast daily (an average of
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Infinite Campus to expand in South-Western City Schools
1.2 million per year) and more than 13,500
students each lunch daily (an average of
2.4 million per year).
She credited the food service cooks and
staff for the continued increase in breakfast
and lunch participation.
“I cannot be more proud of our staff,”
Hamrick said. “They work really hard.”
Hamrick also spoke of the pilot café that
was established earlier this year at Grove
City High School.
“I think it is going over really well,” she
said of the ‘Greyhound Ground Café,’ which
serves hot and cold drinks during breaking
and lunch hours.
Board member David Donofrio asked
whether the café would be expanded to
each of the high schools in the coming
years.
“If things go well, we will consider looking
at the other high schools,” she said.
Hamrick added that it was piloted at
Grove City High School because there was
more of a need for it there.
In other news, transportation supervisor
Tim Cox gave an update on the department.
According to Cox, the department is
running smoothly and inspections are in
progress for all of the buses in their fleet.
He also presented a snapshot with the
average number of students, runs, routes
and miles traveled per day. Cox said the
buses transport more than 15,000 students
per day, the fleet averages more than
16,000 miles per day, and there are more
than 180 routes driven per day.
During his report, he also announced
that the First Time Riders event will be
held on Aug. 10 at Central Crossing High
School from 9 a.m. to noon.
“We’re going to make it a one-day event,
so we’ll see how that goes,” he said.
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A magical performance
Messenger photo by Dedra Cordle
After inclement weather postponed his performance in January, Mr. Puppet (aka
Bob Abdou) will be coming to the Westland Area Library on Feb. 23 courtesy of the
Friends of the Southwest Public Libraries. For nearly an hour, Mr. Puppet will entertain
children and adults alike with wild tales as told by his animal and skeleton
friends and will also feature comedy sketches and magic tricks. The event is
scheduled to begin at 11 a.m.