LIVERMORE FALLS — The Regional School Unit 73 board of directors Thursday approved the Spruce Mountain High School senior class trip planned for next spring.
“We’ve been really fortunate to have really good fundraising tactics,” class President Nate Steele said. He said the class has raised more than $10,000 for the June trip, thanks in part to selling mattresses, grilled cheese sandwiches at the Apple Pumpkin Festival, and having a Haunted Trail hosted by Livermore resident Merry St. Pierre.
“The class has done a wonderful job,” adviser Chris Ellingwood said. “I’m going to miss this class when they leave. When it comes to fundraising, school spirit, school involvement, it absolutely amazes me what these students have done.”
Steele said they will leave the school during the evening after graduation for Portland for a cruise on Casco Bay Lines. They will return in the morning and have breakfast in a classroom at Spruce Mountain Middle School.
“We can bear all costs,” Ellingwood said. “We are not asking for any financial support, just the use of the (RSU 73) buses.”
In other news:
* Superintendent Kenneth Healey said the district had 1,455 students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12 as of Oct. 7. That’s down from 1,477 as of Sept. 19.
* With the Livermore Falls selectmen voting against the town taking ownership of the former Livermore Falls Middle School, RSU 73 will prepare to sell the building by bid, Healey said. He said some surveying has been done and it will soon be advertised in local newspapers.
* Spruce Mountain High School Principal Thomas Plourde said the Maine Lego League competition will take place at the high school Nov. 19. The high school robotics team is organizing it.
* Spruce Mountain Primary School Principal Kevin Harrington said students have been learning how they can prevent fires in observance of Fire Prevention Week this week.
* A Veterans Day lunch will take place Nov. 8 and 10 for veterans to eat lunch with their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren at the Primary School in Livermore.
The next school board meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Oct. 27 at the Superintendent’s Office.
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