La Grande School District
www.lagrandesd.org
Volume 6, Issue 4 • August 2022
La Grande Pride
Love, Care, Serve
La Grande High School, La Grande Middle School,
Central Elementary, Greenwood Elementary, Island City Elementary
REGISTRATION & RESOURCE FAIR
Welcome new and returning students
By Trish Yerges
The La Grande District wants to make the enroll-
ment process as easy as possible for parents with
new students and those re-entering the district
schools. To do this, the district hosted a Registra-
tion and Resource Fair at the La Grande Middle
School on August 11 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The fair was a one-stop shop where school ad-
ministrators guided parents through the enrollment
process and made sure parents had a chance to
spend time talking to the various resource vendors
on hand that day.
Among those agencies were representatives from
the Center for Human Development, from Union
County Care, from Advantage Dental, and the SNAP
program. These representatives shared informa-
tion designed to support district families who have
children enrolling into school.
If you missed the registration and resource fair,
please contact the school where you think your child
will attend to learn how to acquire and complete
the enrollment forms. Resource information will be
given to you and explained at that time.
The teachers and administrators are very excited
to welcome all new and returning students to the
district for the 2022-2023 school year!
FAMILIAR FACES, NEW ROLES
By Trish Yerges
The La Grande School District is pleased to
announce the filling of two administrative posts,
Greenwood School Principal and dean of students
at the Central Elementary School.
Jennifer Melendez will begin the school year as
principal of Greenwood Elementary School. Many
district families will remember her as the assis-
tant principal at Central Elementary last year.
This year, Melendez marks her 17th year in the
Two new adminstrators
field of education, and of those, 16
were spent with the elementary
grade levels, a fact that will aid
her as Greenwood Elementary
School Principal.
Melendez, a native of Caldwell,
Idaho, received her education at
Eastern Oregon University. After
that, she taught classes in Idaho,
Oregon and Colorado. In her
leisure, she loves the outdoors and camping, reading,
sewing and spending time with her husband and
their grown children, and their two dogs at home, a
shih tzu and a terrier.
She is very happy to serve the district in her new
role. “I look forward to meeting the families,” she
said, “and I would encourage parents to come in and
say hello because I would love to get to know every-
one.”
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