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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Tim and Vision2020 folk,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Here is the story covering the MCA's forum with the four
candidates, followed by profile stories on the Zone 2 and Zone 5
candidates, all of which articles were published by the Moscow-Pullman Daily
News and written by Kate Baldwin. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>From one of the stories, the following helpful information
appears: "</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman">For more information on the race
or the precise location of the zones, contact the district office at (208)
882-1120. Polls will be open May 16 at the district office, 650 N. Cleveland in
Moscow." </FONT><FONT face=Arial> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hope some of this helps. Bruce
Livingston</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Moscow School Board
candidates speak on hot issues </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px">Questions and answers reflect
priorities<BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">By Kate Baldwin Daily
News staff writer </SPAN><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; font-color: gray">Published: 05-11-2006
</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">Moscow parent J.D. Wulfhorst thinks
the strong interest in this year’s school board elections is evidence of a
changing time for the district.
<P>
<P>“The level of interest to get involved is an excellent indicator and a
hopeful sign for the community’s future,” he said.
<P>
<P>Wulfhorst was one of about 20 residents to attend the Moscow Civic
Association’s candidate forum Wednesday — and he can’t even vote in the Tuesday
election.
<P>
<P>He lives in a zone other than 2 or 5, which has seats up for election. But
that doesn’t stop him from still knowing who he’d like to see win seats on the
board, he said.
<P>
<P>Moderator Kenton Bird gave the four candidates a chance to offer opening
statements before he broke into the question and answer phase with tough
questions like: how many school board meetings have you been to?
<P>
<P>Zone 5 incumbent Margaret Dibble swept that answer as she had not missed a
meeting during her three-year term and she also attended a majority of the
facilities meetings.
<P>
<P>Zone 2 candidate Mark Hubbard joked that the closest he had come was
chaperoning his children’s junior high dances. But both he and his Zone 2
opponent, Jennifer Watts, had been somewhat involved through Parent Action Team
meetings and some facilities meetings. Zone 5 challenger Larry Woodbury said he
had not been to school board meetings but had been a part of his children’s
activities.
<P>
<P>Bird covered more robust topics, including the State Board of Education’s
proposed high school curriculum redesign that would require more math and
science for students.
<P>
<P>He asked the candidates for their thoughts on how they would address this
massive change.
<P>
<P>“If the state board and the Legislature passes this, we have to expand our
capacity to teach science and math. We’ll have to follow it to meet the law,”
Watts said, acknowledging the inability of a school board to ignore a state
mandate.
<P>
<P>The others agreed, all saying they hoped for sufficient funding and
incentives to meet the need for more teachers and better science labs if the
redesign becomes law.
<P>
<P>“In the business world we talk about leveraging key people,” Hubbard said.
<P>
<P>He said he’d get creative and try ideas like slightly bigger class sizes with
more aides to help.
<P>
<P>Bird also led a question and answer series on facilities.
<P>
<P>“This is the $64,000 question,” he said. “Are you in favor of a new high
school, and, if so, where?”
<P>
<P>Woodbury was in favor of a new school.
<P>
<P>“At first blush I think a new high school would make more sense than trying
to remodel one,” he said, though his final decision would depend on what the
finances and budget allow.
<P>
<P>Watts and Hubbard also favored a new high school.
<P>
<P>“I went to this high school,” Watts said. “I think I thought back then that
we should have had a new high school.”
<P>
<P>She favored something that would have appropriate science labs and other
school facilities to help attract strong teachers to the district.
<P>
<P>Hubbard wanted a location that would provide easy access.
<P>
<P>Dibble said she is in favor of whatever 67 percent of the people of Moscow
want.
<P>
<P>Bird asked what approach the candidates would take to improving facilities.
<P>
<P>“We got the answer to that loud and clear a couple years ago,” Dibble said.
“We had a comprehensive (plan) but it went down in flames.” </P></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Zone 5 candidates share
commitment to education </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px">Margaret Dibble, Larry Woodbury want
to put their ideas to work for students<BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">By Kate Baldwin Daily News staff writer </SPAN><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; font-color: gray">Published: 05-09-2006
</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">Voters will choose May 16 between
two Moscow School Board candidates to fill a three-year term representing Zone
5.
<P>
<P>The zone covers a large territory of the district that forms a dog-leg to the
right: by starting in the southwest corner of the district, extending north in a
narrow strip along the border with Washington, and then stretching east across
the northern portion of the district to include Moscow Mountain.
<P>
<P>The election will be from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Moscow School
District office, located at F and Cleveland streets.
<P>
<P>The Moscow Civic Association is sponsoring a public forum with the candidates
at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the 1912 Center.
<P>
<P>
<P>
<P><B>Margaret Dibble
<P>
<P></B>Incumbent candidate Margaret Dibble wants the opportunity to put what
she’s learned over her three-year term into practice.
<P>
<P>“It takes a while to learn what’s going on, and I’ve learned a lot,” said the
Moscow resident of more than 20 years. “I’m not starting from the beginning.”
<P>
<P>She joined the Moscow School Board in July 2003. Dibble has served as vice
chairwoman of the board and the chief negotiator for the district in contract
discussions with its teachers’ union.
<P>
<P>She also has attended state school board association meetings where she
learned that other districts look at Moscow with envy.
<P>
<P>“We’re way ahead of other districts. We’re on top of things,” she said.
<P>
<P>Dibble referred to a number of legislative policies and changes, like the new
health and wellness policies, that the district quickly adapted to in advance of
state and federal guidelines. She also pointed to the new job-sharing policy for
teachers and new hiring practices as signs of progress.
<P>
<P>Her list of goals include:
<P>
<P>* Improving the district’s academic achievement;
<P>
<P>* Securing a permanent facility for Paradise Creek Regional High School, the
alternative high school; and
<P>
<P>* Passing a bond to upgrade aging school facilities.
<P>
<P>“The buildings are getting old and they were built for a different style of
education,” she said. But she appreciates the challenges that surround a
facilities bond, including the fact that any bond proposal requires an
approximate 67 percent approval from voters. The school board can talk to the
people and the people can talk to the board, but everyone has to understand
where people on the other side of the issues are coming from, she said.
<P>
<P>Dibble said facilities are not something the school board can fix alone.
<P>
<P>Likewise, she also wants to expand the offerings in the district by
coordinating with other programs like Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston.
<P>
<P>Dibble wants to develop more paths for students’ diverse educational needs,
including students at the alternative high school and in the
professional-technical education classes.
<P>
<P>“It’s a real mix of kids there,” she said. “I see them (at the school)
fulfilling a need and I seem them misunderstood.”
<P>
<P><B><B>CANDIDATE BIO</B></B>
<P>* NAME: Margaret Dibble
<P>
<P>* RUNNING FOR: Moscow School Board Zone 5 trustee as
incumbent
<P>
<P>* PERSONAL: 55, married to Martin, a
self-employed farm equipment mechanic
who also shears sheep and alpacas; three children, one a senior at Moscow High
School and two graduates
<P>
<P>* OCCUPATION: Research
support scientist in the University of Idaho’s
Department of Plants, Soils and Entomological Sciences
<P>
<P>* INOLVEMENT: Volunteer with 4H, Girl Scouts and church
<P>
<P>
<P><B>Larry Woodbury
<P>
<P></B>Candidate Larry Woodbury knows he has a tough fight against the Zone 5
incumbent.
<P>
<P>“It’s good she has support for her, but I don’t know if it’s good for me,” he
joked.
<P>
<P>Woodbury came to his decision to run for the board through an unexpected
accident. He suffered a serious injury on the ski slopes this winter, breaking
vertebrae in his neck and back. The recovery period left him in the hospital
with a lot of time to measure the impact of his life.
<P>
<P>“It’s why I decided to get involved and give back to the community,” he said.
<P>
<P>Woodbury said facilities are one of the biggest issues that need addressing.
It seems like the community is divided between maintaining community schools and
building new, he said.
<P>
<P>“The board needs a package to get the majority of both parties on board with
a solution we can live with.”
<P>
<P>If elected, he said, he plans to learn the issues and make things happen.
<P>
<P>“When we decide we want to do something, my wife and I, we jump in with both
feet and make it successful,” he said.
<P>
<P>Woodbury moved to Moscow with his wife in 1984. They started their family
business, Four Seasons Lawn Care, as a way to pay for their education at the
University of Idaho. He received his bachelor’s degree in education but decided
to continue developing his small business.
<P>
<P>He believes that his focus on customer service can be a tremendous help if he
serves on the school board.
<P>
<P>“A lot of my job is trying to please people, finding their needs and meeting
them,” he said.
<P>
<P>Before moving to Moscow, he also served as a U.S. Marine for four years.
<P>
<P>“I traveled the world, but this is the place for me,” he said. “I’d like to
see it maintain its charm and hometown feel.”
<P>
<P>Woodbury grew up in family that also supported education. His father served
on a school board, his oldest brother is a retired teacher and his sister has
been a librarian.
<P>
<P>“I always planned on going into teaching,” he said. “Maybe one day I’ll go
back to that.”
<P>
<P>He wasn’t sure what he wanted to do when he was a young man just handed his
degree, which is how he landed in the military.
<P>
<P>“Being in a college town, everyone thinks that everyone is going to college,”
he said.
<P>
<P>He wants to know if the students in nontraditional tracks are succeeding too.
<P>
<P>“I wonder if needs are being met, if something more can be done,” he said.
“More professional-technical programs, that’s what I’d like to see.”
<P>
<P><B><B>CANDIDATE BIO</B></B>
<P>
<P>* NAME: Larry Woodbury
<P>
<P>* RUNNING FOR: Moscow School Board Zone 5 trustee
<P>
<P>* PERSONAL: 48;
married to Pat, a co-owner of Four Seasons Lawn Care; five
children, one at McDonald Elementary School, one at Moscow High School and three
graduates.
<P>
<P>* OCCUPATION: Owner and president of Four Seasons Lawn Care; owner of a
10,000-piece tree farm; and owner of rental properties
<P>
<P>* INOLVEMENT: Volunteer with the National Ski Patrol, Boy Scouts troop leader
and church </P>
<P> </P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Zone 2 Moscow School Board
candidates share a dedication to education </SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 14px"></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">By Kate Baldwin Daily News staff writer </SPAN><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; font-color: gray">Published: 05-03-2006
</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">Voters will have two Moscow School
Board candidates to choose from for a three-year term in Zone 2 on May 16. </P>
<P>
<P>Zone 2 is roughly bounded on the north by D Street, on the west by Van Buren
Street, on the south by Sixth Street and the Troy Highway, and extends east to
the school district boundary.
<P>
<P>Mark Hubbard
<P>
<P>Candidate Mark Hubbard said he’s ready to use his financial knowledge to help
the district. No stranger to budgets, he said he enjoys making the most out of
limited resources.
<P>
<P>One of eight siblings, Hubbard grew up on a large farm. “We were sensitive to
the costs of levies and bonds but we were still proponents of education,” he
said.
<P>
<P>“We’ve always supported bond levies,” Hubbard said. “But I think if we do it
again we need to look at all the options, and the public needs to be apprised.”
<P>
<P>He expects many factors will come into play as Moscow’s facility needs are
explored, including questions of location and whether to build or remodel.
<P>
<P>“I’m very analytical in nature, and as a credit officer I need to look at all
the angles,” Hubbard said.
<P>
<P>“I have a wide parameter,” he said. “We don’t need a Taj Mahal … but we don’t
want kids wearing coats in school because the buildings’ heaters are breaking
down.”
<P>
<P>Hubbard said, if elected, he would want to assure the public that the
district is being efficient with education dollars.
<P>
<P>Hubbard attended both Grace public schools and Bonners Ferry public schools
in Idaho. He graduated from Bonners Ferry High School. He then went on to the
University of Idaho to graduate in 1981 with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural
economics.
<P>
<P>A longtime Bonners Ferry resident, Hubbard worked with the school district’s
facilities committee on a bond levy in 2002 for a new high school. Their effort
faced problems similar to Moscow’s and also failed, he said.
<P>
<P>He returned to Moscow with his family in August 2003.
<P>
<P>“I’m hoping I can make a difference,” he said.
<P>
<P>Candidate Bio
<P>
<P>NAME: Mark C. Hubbard
<P>
<P>RUNNING FOR: Moscow School Board Zone 2 trustee
<P>
<P>PERSONAL: 50, married to Lisa, a full-time student at the University of Idaho
who will begin student teaching this fall; two children, one Moscow High School
graduate and one at Moscow Junior High School.
<P>
<P>OCCUPATION: Assistant vice president of commercial and agricultural lending,
at FirstBank Northwest in Moscow.
<P>
<P>INVOLVEMENT: board member, Boundary Community Hospital in Bonners Ferry,
Bonners Ferry school facilities committee.
<P>
<P>
<P>
<P>Jennifer Watts
<P>
<P>Zone 2 candidate Jennifer Watts said she believes education is one of the
biggest investments people can make. “I’d like to see improvements in our
facilities, especially the elementary schools and the high school science labs,”
said Watts, who supported the failed April 2005 bond measure.
<P>
<P>“In the long range, Moscow does need to plan for more kids, maybe not in
three years, but the town is growing,” she said.
<P>
<P>Watts decided she was ready to get involved after following the district’s
efforts to run another bond levy this year.
<P>
<P>“I’m hoping to be a listener,” she said.
<P>
<P>She also has a strong interest in raising science literacy levels. She said
she views the State Board of Education’s high school curriculum redesign efforts
as an opportunity.
<P>
<P>As a graduate student at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., Watts wanted to
share her interest in the field. She organized a workshop to inspire girls in
junior high school to choose science and math electives in high school by
introducing them to female scientists.
<P>
<P>“I grew up around people who support public education,” said Watts, whose
father was a professor at the University of Idaho.
<P>
<P>She said the entire community influenced her, people like her former teacher,
State Rep. Shirley Ringo, D-Moscow.
<P>
<P>Watts attended Moscow public schools, graduating from Moscow High School in
1983. Then she spent a year as an American Field Service exchange student to the
Netherlands.
<P>
<P>A bachelor’s degree in microbiology from UI followed. She returned to Moscow
in August 1996 and has stayed close to home ever since.
<P>
<P>“I’d really like to see a board that works together and works well with the
superintendent,” Watts said. “I think that’s happening now and I’d like to
continue that.”
<P>
<P>Candidate Bio
<P>
<P>NAME: Jennifer Watts
<P>
<P>RUNNING FOR: Moscow School Board Zone 2 trustee
<P>
<P>PERSONAL: 40; married to Jan Boll, an associate professor of biological and
agricultural engineering at the University of Idaho; two children, one at
Russell Elementary School and one at West Park Elementary School.
<P>
<P>OCCUPATION: Research assistant professor in Washington State University’s
Institute of Biological Chemistry.
<P>
<P>INVOLVEMENT: West Park School’s Parent Action Team, Moscow Elementary School
Science Fair volunteer, Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute member,
Moscow Arts Commission summer band member.
<P>
<P>
<P>For more information on the race or the precise location of the zones,
contact the district office at (208) 882-1120. Polls will be open May 16 at the
district office, 650 N. Cleveland in Moscow. </P></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=timlohr@yahoo.com href="mailto:timlohr@yahoo.com">Tim Lohrmann</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:37 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] School Board
voting/candidates</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV>All,</DIV>
<DIV> Is there a detailed map of the School
board zones online somewhere? I'm not even sure if I can vote or not. </DIV>
<DIV> Where are the polls?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> And sorry for asking this(I haven't kept
up)--- what are the differences in the candidates for the board? </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV> What difference will voting for one over another
make?</DIV>
<DIV> Thanks for helping out the ignorant!</DIV>
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