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INSIDEBelleville CommunityChorus seeks singers

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SPORTSBelleville Tigers beatCrestwood, 12-10

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By Jerry LaVauteSpecial Writer

The Van Buren PublicSchools continued to seesignificant churn among itsteaching and support staff

as the new school year forstudents began Tuesday.

Among instructionalstaff, Mitzi Varda (18 yearsexperience), Sarah Igonin(nine years), Mary BethDeVries (six years) and

Heather Thomson termi-nated their employmentwith the school district, forreasons ranging from per-sonal to other employment.

More than offsettingthese decreases amongteachers was the hiring of six new instructional staff,including music teachersCara Boden and Jason

Cooper, Special Servicespersonnel Brooklyn Dobisand Doris Birchmeier atBelleville High School,elementary school teacherNicole McCraight andOwen Intermediate School

teacher Kim Henry.Four support staff

employees terminated theiremployment, including busdrivers Jennifer Demingand Michael Smith with acombined 14 years experi-ence, bus aide Carol Wardwith 14 years experience,

Students head back to classBy Jerry LaVauteSpecial Writer

Morning arrived early onTuesday as thousands of studentsreturned to their schools in theVan Buren Public Schools district.Alarm clocks sounded the back-to-reality knell acrossthe Belleville area asthe day dawned warm(74 degrees), foggy(not as thick as peasoup), and humid (87percent relative humidity).

As early as 6:50 a.m., the trafficlight at Owen and South Streetsshowed green, yellow and red sig-nals leading to Owen IntermediateSchool (formerly South MiddleSchool), instead of the flashing

yellow motorists had grown accus-

tomed to during the summer.At 6:51 a.m., a bright yellowschool bus had stopped at therailroad tracks leading north totown as part of its regular safetyprocedure, and as early as 6:53 a.m.a young girl was waiting for her

bus on West ColumbiaAve., in front of the Tuscan ManorApartments.

The high schooland the intermediate

and middle schools began officiallyat 7:40 a.m., but many high schoolteachers and administrators wereat the new high school by at least7 a.m.

Personnel shufe continues as school begins Board of Education approvescontracts for bread and milk

Photo by Jerry LaVaute

Students head from buses outside Belleville High School Tuesday.

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Tara-rifcBy John TurkHeritage Media

Tara K. McCann, youth andteen services librarian forthe Belleville Area DistrictLibrary, loves super heroes.

Shes dressed as Batgirl atcomic book conventions, hasher own comic book in theworks and craves the heroarchetype in many of thebooks she reads.

McCann, it turns out, is abit of a hero in her commu-nity. She doesnt put on a capeand she doesnt swing fromrooftops she advocatesempowering Bellevilles youthfrom the Fred C. FischerLibrary.

Since stepping into her cur-rent role in 2007, McCann hastripled the teen section in thelibrary, introduced many newyouth learning activities andhas grown popularity in allof them. She has 25 copies of The Hunger Games books;five of which are signed bythe author, Suzanne Collins.

Teen librarian puts emphasison local youth

Photo by John Turk

Tara McCann, teen and youth services librarian, stands near the teen section at the Belleville Area DistrictLibrary.PLEASE SEELIBRARIAN /8-A

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