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may 1, 2015, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A7 McNary senior snags $2K for college Photos submitted by Madi Valish Above: Jaida Watson, Skyla Cawthon Christopher Rodriguez and John Bryant share a scene. Left: Julia Fegles directs the attention of Ryver Nakayoshi. Going Measure for Measure at MHS The final play of McNary High School’s drama season has its final shows May 1 and 2. The curtain opens for William Shake- speare’s Measure for Measure at 7 p.m. both evenings. Tickets are $5. The story revolves around a sister’s at- tempts to save the life of her brother after he impregnates his girlfriend out of wedlock. Jaida Watson, who plays Isabella, said the best reason to see it is because it defies ex- pectations for the Bard. “It’s so unlike the romances and the trag- edies he is known for,” she said. Despite being first performed in 1604, Skyla Cawthon, who plays Mariana, found the lessons pertinent even today. “The story takes place in a different time period, but the choices the characters have to make are still relevant,” she said. McNary High School senior Joyce Lim applied for so many scholarships last fall that when an e-mail arrived telling her she’d been awarded the Kaiser Permanente Health Care Ca- reer Scholarship, it went un- noticed. “I’d been getting so many follow-up messages that I didn’t real- ize I’d got- ten it until a teacher con- gratulated me in the hallway,” Lim said. Joyce Lim The schol- arship is worth $2,000. Lim plans to study to be- come a nurse in college. “I can go to Chemeketa for two years for free with their Scholars program, but then I will probably transfer to Lin- field,” Lim said. Recipients of the Kaiser Permanente scholarship will be recognized at an awards cer- emony on Saturday, May 16, at the Oregon Health & Science University Collaborative Life Sciences Building in Portland. “Joyce does not just choose the easy way; she challenges herself, and if she is not natu- rally excellent in something, she knows how to work hard to achieve at a high level. This combination of natural gifts and hard work will serve her well as she embarks on her col- lege career,” said Laura Reid, Lim’s college writing teacher at McNary. SK schools get budget increase By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes For the second year in a row, the Salem-Keizer School Dis- trict has a budget increase, the subject of Tuesday’s message from Superintendent Christy Perry to the district budget committee. The 2015-16 proposed budget totals $654,160,402, up from the $621,356,557 figure for 2014-15. Perry’s message focused on the gen- eral fund, which amounts to $432,907,528, or 66 percent of the total budget. The committee, which con- sists of the seven school board members and seven people from the general public, will meet again May 11 for com- mittee members to question school budget staff. There will be no public tes- timony May 11. Public testi- mony will be received on May 18 and 19, and the committee will discuss the budget further May 20 and if necessary May 21 for its vote on the budget proposal. Board adoption of the bud- get is scheduled for June 9. All the meetings will start at 6 p.m. in the Support Ser- vices Center in Salem, the usual meeting place of the board. Under the current budget proposal, she said, the district would be able to fund full- day kindergarten, add teachers to address classroom sizes in the middle schools and high schools, reorganize funds so all K-12 schools would have half- time effective learning teach- ers, add behavior specialists and counselors and hire two more teachers to help students stay on track for graduation. For direct support to stu- dents, Perry told the committee there would be money to re- place failing telephone systems, add textbook-tracking software, increase transportation fund- ing and add nursing and secu- rity services for summer school programs. Most of the general fund comes from property taxes and the state school fund. The fund pays for student instruction, the schools and general operations.