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The Olentangy Education Foundation (OEF) is extending an open invitation to its 12th annual golf outing to be held Monday, September 26 at the Lakes Golf and Country Club. Participants will enjoy a lunch beginning at 11 a.m. and an 18-hole scramble event, which will begin at 12:30 p.m. For additional information and registration, please visit http://olentangyeducationfoundation.org.

OEF is a non-profit, independent group of community volunteers that raises funds to provide teacher and staff grants for innovative programs not funded by the school district’s budget. The group also awards annual scholarships to two deserving seniors at each high school. Since 2001 OEF has distributed more than $350,000 in grants and scholarships, including more than $35,000 in 2011.

The Olentangy Board of Education on Wednesday voted unanimously to approve one-year contract extensions for both of the district’s classified unions. The agreements, which affect approximately 260 bus drivers, custodians, maintenance workers and field service staff members, include freezes on both wages and step increases, saving the district $150,000. [Read more…]

Olentangy Hyatts Middle School (OHMS) student Brady J. recently completed a major upgrade to the OHMS garden space.  Brady undertook the renovation as his Eagle Scout project and with the help of numerous donors, including the Jarret Feucht Memorial Fund.  During the course of several months, Brady covered the area in landscape fabric, laid two levels of mulch, planted four apple trees, built four picnic tables and four park benches, built a compost bin and installed an entryway garden that dedicates the space to the memory of Jarret Feucht, an Olentangy student who died in a car accident in 2007 and was known for his generous nature and love of the outdoors, music and art.