Sandy Johnson Quotations

With Ms. Truesdale's current CD album, 'I know Him' on Nashville's CIS-Christian label, Jeanie Kay has brought forth an array of inspirational music sure to please any listener, ... Her soulful voice and her emotional, believable musical delivery reaches audiences in a direct manner not often afforded many singers.

Founding Mother, Linda Axley, and executive directors like Pam Moore and Deana Franke (current director), have kept the vision alive, and have transferred their vision to staff, board members, volunteers and to the entire community.

If all of our energies could be focused towards all the exciting things going on in Benton City, it would blow us out of the water.

Help-In-Crisis asks the communities to support our agency by attending one or both of the concerts as we observe October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month,

We mentioned it coming in here that we thought it might hurt Bishop Hill because of the prices.

We look at history, ... We look at counts. We look at where schools are in terms of staffing. We make phone calls to schools. I also bring in e-mails from principals regarding requests. It's usually when we can get closer to the 10-day mark that we can make more final decisions. That's not to say we won't make some decisions. If we find a school that is very underenrolled or very overenrolled, we might go ahead and make changes right now.

Our whole family came every year, and now our grandchildren are coming.

We knew we'd have a long way to go, but I don't think we thought it was quite as far.

We come every year. I can't think of a year we've missed it.

I still believe we have an agreement, ... We had a joint meeting and we reached an agreement before we left the room. We sent an MOU that reflects all that. Our plan is to take it to our board for approval.

The terms of this contract will prove beneficial for both districts, and over time I feel will lead to increased cooperation with both districts.

Teachers will be able to use the database to develop their tests. They look in there and see exactly what students did on their assessment.

They're very sincere and want to improve the process. We want to take a look at the four-year plans and how they're being used. We're going to be having conversations with middle school principals very soon, because that's when they start, in the eighth grade.

It's still a possibility we're going to have some reduction in services, ... The reality is that we have more services than are mandated, a lot more.

I know schools are doing a lot of things to double-check. It's actually much more time-intensive than even we thought it would be. It takes a lot of time to go through every course and match it up to cumulative records. If you do it right, you want to check every aspect.