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.