Cheers and tears at annual school awards

...“I have learned not to be cold or distant ...

and I am convinced I can heal with my touch and through listening with my heart.”Houghton-Portage Township Schools board of Education Secretary Dan Crane said head custodian and bus driver Octave Limback “quietly and efficiently goes about his business at a pace that is difficult to equal.”In honoring Colleen Lajimodiere, Lake Linden-Hubbell Public Schools Board of Education Trustee Kathy Johnson called the dedicated office worker the “guts and glue” that kept the district running smoothly.“She is head nurse, transportation director and mind-reader, among many other essential duties,” Johnson said.The districts also bid goodbye to long-serving employees heading to retirement.

Dollar Bay-Tamarack City Schools 3rd-grade teacher Joanne Greub, L’Anse Area Schools teacher and counselor John Holm and CLK drafting teacher Dennis Bastian will retire at the end of the school year.Bastian was given a special request by CLK School Board Secretary Phyllis Locatelli.“There is a sign in Dennis’ shop that says, ‘If you didn’t get the grade you wanted, it’s because I didn’t get the work I wanted,’”...

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