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Board member questions supt. contract By Larry Limpf News Editor news@presspublications.com
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Top left, members of Harmonium played folk and gypsy music from Eastern Europe. At right, MaryAnn and Tibor Deri enjoy a dance. Bottom left, Maria Mezei, right, shows some Hungarian apparel to Jo Hentges, of Oregon. The festival included a waiter’s race down Consaul Street, and plenty of ethnic food. (Press photos by Ken Grosjean)
Woodville rifleman gets national mark Talented marksman, Ted James, 36, of Woodville, was the overall winner of the Tactical Class during the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s (CMP) Rimfire Sporter Match – recently held during the 2015 National Matches at Camp Perry. James bested a field of 65 competitors in the class that helped make up a group of over 300 participants overall. During the match, held on Aug. 1, competitors fired .22 Rimfire Sporter rifles in three different classes: O-Class (open sights), T-Class (scoped) and Tactical. Fired at 50 and 25 yards in six stages, the event is perfect for introducing new marksmen to the realm of competitive shooting as well as uniquely challenging experienced shooters. In the Tactical Class, James fired an outstanding score of 596-37x (37 center shots) out of a possible 600 points. The score was a new National Record for the Rimfire Sporter Match – not bad considering this was James’s first year competing in the Tactical Class. “Immediately after, I knew I was above the record but didn’t think my score would
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hold up all day – it seems every year the scores just keep going up,” he said. He also posted 597-44x in the T-Class, but again didn’t feel his score would be good enough to beat the rest of the competitors on the firing line. Though his confidence was shaken, the excellent score actually landed James in second place in the class. “I left the match after that, and now I regret not sticking around for the awards,” he said. Though he usually shoots in the O-Class as his second choice (always firing in more than one class), he was recording such great scores during his Tactical prac-
tice, comparable to his T-Class scores, that he decided to compete in the class at Camp Perry this year. And, evidently, it turned out to be a good decision. A rifleman most of his life, James began shooting when he was around 10 years old – mostly playing with .22’s with his dad on the rifle range he had built at their house. His dad was a member of a local sportsman’s club where he would take James shooting for fun and was also an avid hunter. “I remember always looking forward to fall when he would take off to go deer hunting,” James said. “Even though I didn’t get to go along then, it was exciting for me because I knew it meant I’d get to help sight in his deer rifles.” When James became older, he began to compete in the matches held at his dad’s club – something that he feels helped him develop skills both in riflery and life. “Whether it’s shooting or something else, I believe healthy competition is a great way to further one’s skills,” he said. “Competition provides incentive to improve, breeds ingenuity and makes those serious enough about it to constantly search for new and better ways of doing things.”
A new employment agreement for the superintendent of the Woodmore Local School District has drawn the ire of a member of the school board who contends the document was enacted improperly. Reading a prepared statement, Joe Liszak said Tuesday he had no knowledge until recently of a contract apparently drawn up this past June that sets the annual salary of Superintendent Linda Bringman at $102,003. Her prior contract that was approved by the board Aug. 19, 2014 didn’t stipulate a salary. “To be determined” is written where the contract would list an amount. Start and expiration dates for both agreements are the same: Aug. 1, 2015 to July 30, 2018. Prior to that, Bringman had a contract that began July 1, 2012 and expired June 30 of this year. Her salary was $99,500. Liszak’s statement says he, Corinna Bench, a board member, and Grant Cummings, who resigned from the board this spring, had repeatedly told Board President Steve Huss several months ago the contract should be voted on again due to information being omitted and “to remain transparent with the public.” Instead, Huss in June had an employee in the treasurer’s office retype the contract with the new salary figure and he then signed it with Bringman, according to Liszak’s statement. The latest document includes the signatures of Huss and Bringman but not that of Jaime Pearson, the current treasurer. The contract approved August 2014 includes Huss and Bringman’s signatures as well as that of Karen Botzko, then the interim treasurer. The date “August 19, 2014” is below the signatures on both contracts. There is also an apparent error in the latest agreement in the employment terms section where it states Bringman is “…employed to serve as Superintendent from August 1, 2015 to July 3, 2011…” Continued on page 2
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