We were happy to donate the effects and are thrilled our dad has been recognized as having an important place in history. A total of 14,334 canned items and other monetary donations assembled by middle school students were donated to the Girard Ministerial Alliance and are being distributed to families in need. The amount raised this year was double that of last year. Due to a need to upgrade the existing phone system, USD 248 experienced changes regarding its phone system and numbers in early December. The phone system was changed to allow instructors greater access to outgoing phone lines in order to communicate better with parents.
Some numbers remain the same to offices while other numbers have become outgoing numbers only.
Incoming lines are being limited in order to produce more effective use of all lines. The district received advice from Craw-Kan Telephone that a system change was necessary in order to place more phones in the building and to make multiple transfers. All other incoming calls should be placed to the respective school office so that they can be transferred to personnel. Gary Snawder of the new telephone system. Snawder also feels that the new system helps the overall safety and security of the district as well.