Weathersfield board hires new secretary, coordinator

By Mary Smith

An antique Mineral Ridge student desk was given to the historical society by a Pennsylvania family.

MINERAL RIDGE — The Weathersfield Board of Education has hired Kim Rouan of Carson-Salt Springs Road as the new secretary to the superintendent, as well as Educational Management Information System coordinator.

She was hired Wednesday on a one-year limited contract at a salary of $30,000, effective July 17.

Rouan, the wife of township clerk David Rouan, replaces Terri Cameron, who left the position to be EMIS coordinator at Niles City Schools.

Kim Rouan is a graduate of Mineral Ridge High School and has been secretary to Land Development Co. and the 229 Group, both of Mineral Ridge.

The EMIS coordinator works in student services overseeing transmission of data on students and staff to the state.

The board also hired Michelle Meyers as a Summer Intervention teacher at Seaborn Elementary at $22 an hour for August, and approved the hiring of Deana Van Horn on a one-year limited contract as a short hour (five hours) cook at Mineral Ridge Middle School cafeteria at $13.83 an hour, effective Aug. 21.

Also, Marci Buchanan of the Mineral Ridge Historical Society brought an antique Mineral Ridge student desk that was given to the historical society by a Pennsylvania family.

She said she has been on eBay searching for and purchasing memorabilia for Mineral Ridge and has bought items from the family, which stems from the Waser family in Mineral Ridge that lived on Burnett Street.

Once the descendants of the Waser family learned that the township had a historical society, they donated the student desk, which is believed to have been made in the late 1800s.

Buchanan said she plans to put the desk in an ongoing display of historical items the society keeps at the Mineral Ridge post office for the start of school.

Buchanan also praised the school board and elementary school principal Cindy Mulgrew for their support. She said the district allows the society to meet for free at the middle school, and also permits displays to be put up by the society of historical items in school buildings.