What a wonderful and exciting week we just experienced here in Warner and it was a pleasure to be part of something that was so long in the making. Opening the new gym and having five large crowds for the basketball game was great sight to see. In my haste to make sure I didn't forget anything, I forgot to thank some very important people, so let me do that now.
School Board members--current and past--have committed countless hours to the project, starting from the very beginning with encouraging people to vote, providing informational meetings, determining the proper budget, adjusting the plans and making decisions on the final project. They have been involved with various meetings prior too and during construction, establishing priorities for the project, gathering support and finalizing what will be the best use of school funds. Everyone from the Warner School District should commend them for their efforts and commitment to the school; they were a significant force for the betterment of the school while fostering what is also in the best interest's of the local taxpayers and patrons. Our current five member board, consisting of President Wade Young, Vice President Brenda Dreyer, Brad Oye, Chad Fischbach and Angie Bakeberg, along with past board members who have served; should be commended for their work to our school and community.
School Personnel--Angie Vetter (Business Manager), Stewart Bohle (Athletic Director), Gene Smith (Head Custodian) and Missy Reeb (Food Service Coordinator and Concession Stand Director), all of these folks helped make the week a success. Mrs. Vetter has been involved from the very beginning, helping with budgeting and planning, but she also helped with organization and ordering of materials, planning the grand opening and making sure everything was paid for. Mr. Bohle coordinating the change of venues when we knew the building would be ready to go, facilitating the building needs from seats to basketballs to sideline equipment. Gene was very helpful during the entire building process, making sure construction workers had access to existing parts of the building, maintaining continued use of our classrooms and grounds and helping clean up all the messes. Missy was able to coordinate the changes for the new concessions and even handled a faulty pop cooler with ease and little stress. I don't think anyone realizes how much work running a concession's stand is and she makes it look easy. They all do amazing work and should be applauded for their efforts and commitment to the Warner School District.
I also want to thank everyone who helped with after game clean-up; we had five large crowds over the eight days we hosted games and lots of folks helped pick-up garbage, sweep, and clean. Having staff, community members and others pitch-in to make large tasks easy makes it wonderful to be part of such a caring community.
I'm sure there are still others that I forgot to thank and over the coming days I will be adding more to the list. Please know your commitment to the betterment of the school and facilities doesn't go unnoticed and we appreciate everything, everyone does to help.
