HOWLAND SCHOOLS Panel to work with businesses

A union representative gets a three-year leave of absence.
By TIM YOVICH
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
HOWLAND -- The board of education's community collaboration committee has contacted more than 470 businesses.
Board member Andrew Bednar, who chairs the committee, told fellow board members Monday that the committee's spring newsletter-- its first publication -- went out to the businesses in the school district and those owned by the parents of Howland students.
The collaboration committee is designed to nurture income growth in the schools and in the community.
In the newsletter, it is pointed out that the newly-formed Academic Boosters Club will be contacting businesses to sponsor scholarships for seniors who will be graduating in 2007.
The committee is also looking for businesses to hire students or recent graduate for summer employment. Those interested are asked to contact the high school guidance office.
The committee will also meet with Darlene St. George, township administrator, to find ways to link the township and the schools.
Unpaid leave approved
In other business, the board approved a three-year unpaid leave of absence for James Timlin, president of the Howland Classroom Teachers Association, which is the teachers union. Timlin has been elected secretary-treasurer of the Ohio Education Association, the statewide teachers union.
Timlin teaches English at the middle school. He has been a teacher in the district for 30 years.
Superintendent John Rubesich lauded Timlin as a teacher and said he believes that at this point in his career Timlin can better serve education at the state level.
The OEA represents 130,000 teachers and support staff in Ohio's public schools, colleges and universities.