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2 ★ Keene Star WWW.kGGIlGStar.nGt Thursday, January 26, 2012
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Keene Junior High students, from left, Kalean Saravia, Erica Lanki and Eboni Smith. From left, special programs teacher Katherine Crawford, Jacob Villegas and Ryan Hadley.
eene Junior High students use computer to model careers
JOYCE ANN YATES
Special to the Keene Star
Students at Keene Junior High School started the new year
by considering their future careers in a program orchestrated
by junior high counselor Joyce Ann Yates.
The sixth-grade students viewed a DVD, “Exploring Ca-
reers” and completed The Career Game identifying careers in
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six broad clusters based on present areas of interest.
“They are beginning to see that the skills they are learning
in school will one day be very useful in the various careers
they will each pursue,” Yates said.
The seventh-grade students did an on-line Career Clusters
interest inventory that linked their interests to 16 broad ca-
reer clusters. Next, they explored the web to learn more about
their top areas of interest, and the level of education they
would need to pursue their top career choices.
The eighth-grade students took the on-line Kuder Careers
Interest Inventory. Their results also linked their current in-
terests to careers in 16 Career Clusters. They then had the op-
portunity to find out how much money they would need to
earn and determine if they would be able to provide for them-
selves and a family within the career field related to their cur-
rent areas of interest.
“The students will continue to have opportunities to explore
careers and plan for their future, as they develop the skills
needed to be productive and contributing citizens within their
communities,” Yates said.
ommissioners concerned about payments
CONTINUED FROM PG. 1
Some payments have been
made and the others will be
paid within the next month.
We do have a positive cash
flow this month. We hope to
pay everybody in the next two
weeks, but I can’t guarantee
that.”
Precinct 1 Commissioner
Rick Bailey asked if Ringo
meant full payment or partial
payment. Ringo said every-
one would be paid in full.
“I don’t know if the court
wants to set a specific date
before we’ll have to take ac-
tion,” Harmon said. Bailey,
Precinct 2 Commissioner
Troy Thompson, Precinct 3
Commissioner Jerry Stringer
and Precinct 4 Commissioner
Don Beeson agreed, and Har-
mon reiterated what an im-
portant matter this is.
“I understand,” Ringo
said. “We had a bad cash flow
situation.”
‘That’s not our problem,”
Harmon responded.
Stringer wanted to make
sure the unpaid subcontrac-
tors knew who was respon-
sible for them not receiving
their money.
“Are these vendors well
aware the county is not hold-
ing up payment?” he asked.
Ringo said yes.
Beeson suggested Ringo
come back to court at the
Feb. 13 meeting to give an
update on payment. Ringo
said he would be there.
Meanwhile, the Adult Pro-
bation Building will have a
different look after Magee
and Pete Durant of construc-
tion manager at-risk Du-
rant & Associates cut about
$ 125,000 from the cost of the
project.
“The cost of materials
continues to rise, so we de-
signed the front and the
back,” Magee said. “We
eliminated a lot of the glass
and replaced it with brick
and cast stone.”
The new design also uses
much less metal, keeping
it only at the entry, and
two rows of structural steel
could be dropped because —|—
of the new look, Magee
added.
“The changes are not whol-
ly dramatic,” Durant said.
“We took the panels out of
the front and back and have a
straight brick facia instead of
a sloped facia.”
The 32,000-square-foot
building is expected to cost
$4,996 million, and com-
missioners will likely vote
on bids for items such as soil
stabilization at their Feb. 13
meeting, Magee said.
“We’ll continue to work
on materials,” he said.
“Some of the tiles have
changed since the first of
the year, but we should get
close to what we had talked
about. We’re on schedule
for bids, but I’m not pre-
pared to make a recommen-
dation on bids. We just got
them in last week, and we’re
checking on insurance, how
strong a company is.”
In other business, com-
missioners:
■ Decided to study how
best to determine when and
whether space heaters can
be used in county buildings.
Many commissioners and
Harmon said they wouldn’t
have a problem allowing
elected officials and depart-
ment heads decide whether
to allow them in their offices,
based on the needs of their
individual employees.
When they are allowed,
they agreed, only those with
automatic shutoffs will be
permitted and they must be
unplugged at the end of the
work day.
Burning candles will be
prohibited, Harmon said.
■ Approved the purchase
of two computer air cards and
the $46 monthly payments
for each for use in Emergency
Operations Center vehicles.
That will allow use of county
routers and permit Internet
access when the vehicles are
on a call and also serve as a
backup if power goes out at
the EOC.
Commissioners court will
meet next at 9 a.m. Monday,
Feb. 13, at the Johnson Coun-
ty Courthouse, 2 N. Main St.
in Cleburne.
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