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WOODSTOCK Page 2 McHENRY PLAINDEALER Section A Friday. August 1.1985 ^Community Dist. 12 opens its doors By Carol A. Stevens With the beginning of the school year just weeks away, preparations are underway for school doors in the Johnsburg Unit School District to swing open August 28. At the high school, changes have been made in the school handbook. These include clarification of stu­ dent responsibility for their actions while on or around the school bus. Failure of any student to act respon­ sibly could possibly result in loss of bus priviliges for that student. 1 Also, the school administration will encourage Juniors and seniors to use non-attendance days to visit colleges rather than take time off from school for these visits. College and career visits by seniors in ener- The first babies born at Northern Illinois Medical Center recently celebrated their first birthdays with a party at NIMC. It is hoped that the event will become an annual reunion. OUR MISTAKE In two photos in the Wednes­ day edition of the Plaindealer, our own Miss McHenry, Dawne Marshall, was mis-identified. The Plaindealer regrets tHe er­ ror. zoning for McHenry Villa project gency situations on school days must be cleared through, the princi­ pal's oflce. Important dates on the high school calendar for the upcoming years are: Homecoming, set for Sept. 27 and 28; Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, and the end of the school year on June 3, if no snow datesare used. Another change will be the return of students from Christmas break <m Thursday, Jan. 2 rather than waiting until the following Monday. Graduation and exam days will be set in March. At the Middle School, there is still some construction which needs to be completed before school opens. The work was bhMnd contracted last month, but the contractor backed out of the work. The second- lowest bidding firm was hired to do the necessary work, which should be completed before school opens. The summer computer camp was evaluated for the board of educa­ tion. The camp was frofn June 10-21, and had 17 students enrolled from grades 4-9. Each student received individualized instruction, but there were also group activities. The rec­ ommendation tp the board was that the program should continue next year with the following changes: •Elementary school teachers should encourage students and rec­ ommend to parents attendance in the camp. -Planning and registration should take place earlier. ' -The camp director should talk to teachers on how to make recom­ mendations for the evaluation of students. The board said a change from a two-and-one-half hour day to a two- hour day was beneficial. The pro­ gram was also changed from three weeks to two weeks. - A change in board policy clarified a situation of when a teacher retires at the end of the school year, his or her insurance benefits will be con­ tinued throughout the summer months. This move was made to encourage retiring teachers Co give the district more notice so a re­ placement may be found prior to the end of the school year. Pre-alegbra and alegbra will be offered to eighth graders in the gift­ ed programs this year. A study of the program found that some students who were in eighth grade algebra and then passed into geometry, did not fully understand the basics of alegbra and some­ times did not fare well in advanced algebra classes in high school. By offering pre-algebra to eighth grad­ ers, the pressure would not be so great for the student to take it in the eighthgrade. Board Member Sue Maforqa not­ ed studies such as this show the benefit of being a unit school dis­ trict. Programs can be followed through all the grades and student performance can be evaluated to locate strengths and weaknesses in programs. By Anthony Oliver rialmtoaler staff writer Zoning and height variations for the proposed McHenry Villa com­ plex were approved unanimously by the McHenry City Council Wednes­ day night. Housed in the former McHenry Hospital on Waukegan Road, Mc­ Henry Villa is an "adult congregate care" facility for senior citizens that is slated to open next year. Previously, the city council ap­ proved 87.5 million in industrial rev­ enue bonds (IRBs) for the develop­ er, Lee SuUiffe, of Sutliffe and Associates, Kansas City. Square dancers perform McHenry county's six square dancing clubs are going to perform several times during the McHenry County Fair. One new event has been added to the fair's agenda. The fair board at its late July meeting approved Square Dancers of McHenry County using Building E from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 3 to host a square ^dancing party. The public is Jnvil As exhibitions of what can be accomplished and as en­ tertainment, the square dance groups will perform before the grandstand audience during the Miss McHenry County Pageant. They will also perform on Saturday and Sunday,before the tractor pull events. The local clubs include ' Woodstock Squares, Woodshed Whirlers, Johnsburg;, Milk Center Squares, Harvard; Hip Huggers, Crystal Lake;*, Swinging Squares, Cary; and, Bachelors and Bacheloretts, McHenry. The project is described as a i between living at home and the care nursing home. Some in-house medical care would be provided through an agreement with North­ ern Illinois Medial Center (NIMC). Attorney Jeffrey Ladd, who rep­ resents NIMC and spoke on behalf of Sutliffe, noted plans that called for the elimination of some parking and replacing it with greenery and landscaping for a "much im­ proved" appearance. Ladd also,commented that financ­ ing for the project is expected to be completed in fall with construction to take about nine months. The McHenry Zoning Board *of Appeals (ZBA) voted unanimously in favor of the proposal after resolv­ ing some questions about the height variation. Plans for the facility re­ quire a maximum height of 62 feet which will allow for two more floors to be built on the existing structure. 'The hospital was originally built to take two more floors so there is no problem with the foundation or the (tilings,' Ladd said. Ladd commented that SuUiffe had agreed to make a 60-foot right-of- way available to the city if the lat­ ter builds a bridge connecting Riv­ erside Drive and Waukegan Road. The first phase of the project calls for remodeling the former hospital building to provide 118 units. The vote Wednesday night also granted B-l business zoning with a special use permit for an adult con­ gregate carecenter. 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