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With its final meeting of the year, the Colonel Crawford school board voted out with the old and in with the new – at last as far as athletic leagues.
The board formally voted to leave the North Central Conference of which it was a founding member and join the new Northern 10 Athletic Conference which begins play in the fall of 2014. There were mixed feelings and ideas expressed during the discussion of changing leagues.
Colonel Crawford Superintendent Ted Bruner discussed the move.
"When we voted tonight to withdraw from the North Central Conference I'd been in CC for 36 years and I've never been in any other conference but the North Central Conference, so that saddens me a little bit,” Bruner said. “But I also know that sometime change has to happen and the conference that we're going into is a conference of schools that are proportionally our size that are close around us and that makes it very important for us because our kids need to be able to be competitive and be playing schools with the same number of kids."
The school board also heard from Principal Ruth Ann Noblet regarding efforts by students and staff for a toy drive. Noblet cited the efforts of basketball coaches David Sheldon and Amber Rall in heading the effort.
"They decided they were going to do a toy drive, so they collected (toys) at the Foundation Game that we had at the very beginning of the season before we kicked off the season,” Noblet said. “People brought all kinds of toys in and after they brought the toys in. We had families we knew needed it, so we just went in and basically went shopping, boy, girl age wise and put it together.
“And then the food came from the Lions Club October meeting. They decided as part of your requirement you bring food, so there was a whole mess of food there and they wanted to give back to this specific committee, so I said ‘I'll take it.’ So then what we decided to do is combine the toys with the food, box it up, per family too, so not only will they get toys, but they are going to get a little bit of food along with it,” Noblet said. “The basketball players are going to deliver it, most of the cases, a few families are going to pick it up, but most of them are going to be delivered by our kids. So I think that's good community service outreach and it was a great response."
