Students to be greeted by 14 new teachers

Boundary County students can expect to see new faces this year with 14 teachers joining the school district. Two of them, Andy Rice and Angela Schnuerle, were raised in Bonners Ferry.

Also new for the Bonners Ferry High School will be the random drug testing for students in extra curricular activities. Valley View students will be eating lunch in a newly remodeled cafeteria.

New teachers are Jennifer Midani, English as a second language districtwide; Sharon Cox, math at the high school; Joshua Knaggs, art at the high school; Ryan Gillispie, math at the high school; Lisa Naccarato, social studies and English at the high school; Megan Havercroft, social studies at the high school; Pam Sanford, special education at the high school; Olivia Garcia, custodian at the high school; Andy Rice, seventh- and eight-grade intervention and librarian at the middle school; James Panell, special education at Valley View Elementary; Michelle Woods, kindergarten at Evergreen Elementary; and Angela Schnuerle, kindergarten at Mt. Hall Elementary. Also new are Amanda Lammers, administrative assistant at Mt. Hall; and Janet Aos, library assistant at Mt. Hall.

Teachers switching to different positions are Jan Bayer, who is now the curriculum coordinator districtwide; Jennifer Mackey, who will teach sixth grade at the Boundary County Middle School; Laura Nishek, who will teach eighth-grade language arts at the middle school; and Anne McClintock, who will teach second-grade at Valley View.

Boundary County School Board over the summer voted to allow drug-testing students at Bonners Ferry and Riverside high schools and Boundary County Middle School who participate in extra-curricular activities. They will be tested for marijuana, cocaine, meth and pharmaceutical drugs.

School officials are considering a lottery. Students’ names would be placed in a hat and drawn randomly for testing. Names can be drawn more than once.

“What we did was we took the library, which was the old cafeteria, and we moved it across the hall and put the cafeteria back where it originally,” said Valley View Principal Cindy Orr.

To complete the project, a wall was removed and a hole was cut in the way so the cafeteria would be connected to the kitchen for serving purposes and the carpet was removed from former library.

Superintendent Don Bartling expects the lunch program throughout the district will remain the same but prices will be raised.

Hours for school are 7:55 a.m. to 3:55 for the high school; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the middle school; 7:55 a.m. to 3 p.m. for Evergreen and Naples elementary schools; 8:05 a.m. to 2:45 for Valley View; and 8 a.m. to 3:50 p.m. for Riverside High School.