If you care about Trinity Sports please attend the Board Meeting tonight at 6:30pm at the high school auditorium

This is the message I received last night, and I feel terrible I have not been able to get back to town to follow up on this story.  What I know it is that rumored on the agenda tonight is the school district is going to give a report on athletics this evening,and the board is attempting to open all the fall coaching positions again this evening.  If I can learn more during the day I will post more and deliver on my promise from last evening if I can get to my computer this afternoon.  By the way, Mr. Day and Mr. Jones went to lunch on Wednesday probably to talk about what?  Mr. Jones as you know does not associate with School Board Members!
     One good piece of news our new assistant principal seems to have a sports background and was a collegiate football player at Edinboro State and from what I am hearing either knows or knows players who played for  Coach Dalton and is a fan of him!

The Interval Investigation?

I have not been able to get many details on this coaching witch hunt that happened today at the highschool.  I have been given the email by Colleen Interval to Dr. Paul Kasunich that was sent last May 23rd to Dr. Kasunich.  Interval also cc Dennis McWreath, Scott Day, Tamara Salvatori, and Sandy Clutter.  I will post it when I get a chance to scan the document.  It will tell you much about what we are dealing with on this Board.  I look forward to your comments I am sure I will know way more about this event by tomorrow.  I will share a few interesting Burgettstown stories with you also tomorrow, you will enjoy them I promise, and a few yearbook pictures!

SCOTT DAY CLAIMS DALTON AND STAFF WILL BE GONE IN JANUARY!

Allegedly, Board Member Scott Day has told people that Ed Dalton and the football staff will be gone in January.  Day who wants a relative to be the football coach and the athletic director has been allegedly unhappy with Ed Dalton ever since he would not fire former Wrestling Coach Jeff Bricker.  Day, actually according to a very good source wanted to himself evaluate Jeff Bricker, who was a two time collegiate All American in Wrestling, and won two WPIAL Team Wrestling Championships as a coach. Scott Day's wrestling resume included being a fan and he quit wrestling in high school according to classmates of Day.  This should make the Christmas Holidays interesting and will really unite our group again for January. [get the auditorium ready]
Remember Athletic Director Bobby Jones told the fall coaches that NO positions would be opened from the fall season and that neither he or Superintendent Paul Kasunich would support or recommend such a move of opening a coaching position.  But maybe Kasunich had to make some promises to keep his job!
Not that Athletic Czar Scott Day cares but our football team has made the WPIAL playoffs six consecutive years and was the only Trinity Fall Sports team to make the playoffs this year, posting a 6 & 3 mark tying for second in the section before losing to West Allegheny.  The Hiller Football Program has been 36 - 19 over the past 6 regular seasons, 2 and 6 in the playoffs.  Dalton has about 140 career wins about 60 of those at Trinity.  I received this information from the Post Gazette.

Setting the record straight!

Just so everyone knows the facts Sandra Clutter, Colleen Interval, Tamara Salvatori, Scott Day, Jim Knapp, support keeping the Superintendent on the job at full pay.  Jack Keisling, Dennis McWreath, Henry Clemens, and Tom Bodnovich, want Paul Kasunich on unpaid leave.  Its not a mirage! The three women support Dr. Kasunich! 
It is a real possibility that Trinity Area School District Tax Payers will be paying for three seperate lawsuits in court at roughly the same time. 
Our educational consultant Dr. James Manley recommended the following people to our district for employment, Paul Kasunich, Bobby Jones, the Butler law firm, thanks for those blessings.  Are we sure James Manley really wrote that educational review of our school district, and didn't just change some of the words from a review he wrote while at Pine Richland.  We are checking on that factoid!
Are we losing another administrator to another school district? Are we sure Bobby Jones is doing his work or is Don Snoke still saving the day, and if he is who is doing his evaluations and principal work?   Where is our new assistant principal we hired from five hours away is he commuting and misses the entire day, instead of most of the day like our other administrator long distance comuter! And please don't ask the former AD to fix something so we can play a game its embarassing.
 Why did the students stop complaining about the cafeteria?  Praise the lord the slushy machines are back for my children! 
As a former Assistant District Attorney Mr. Makel should stop trying to block people from free speech, and sunshine law rights.  Of all people he should think about how sometimes your own words will comeback to haunt you!

We now are getting over 1000 different readers per article

1. It has happened the impossible, my children pack their lunch!
2. Has anyone been reading about a WPIAL School District who rushed into a grading policy and now has egg on their face?[we will show them]
3. I am glad my children had the opportunity to attend school for two hours and then attend the protest, next we are going to practice riot drills like the good old days.
4. Can the cameras that watch the students on the bus also watch a particular bus driver on her cell phone on the bus! Phone records would also show that would they not?
5. The homecoming court is excited for the homecoming parade, nevermind no parade. The homecoming court is excited for the homecoming assembly, nevermind no assembly. The homecoming court is pumped for a non school sponsored bonfire, that is classy! I wonder if this would have happened at Blackhawk, or Burgettstown, or Avella, or Uniontown I mean Redstone, or Washington, or Carlyngton, or North Hills, or Bethel Park, or back in the Scott Day glory days at Trinity!
6. Did we really have an exit clock after the football game Friday night for fans to leave the stadium? Guess who didn't wait for the clock to expire?
7. Are we really going to change the seating this Friday, does the band know, do our students know, do the visiting students know?
8. Why do committees meet in mornings, what happens if people have jobs? This info might help you, 71% of all adults work between the hours of 7am and 5pm.
9. Why is there virtually no information the school marquee?
10. I would like to see a school survey on the moral of the parents, students and faculty since the NEW BOARD took over, maybe we can publish that on the web site.
11. I see bullying is a big issue at the school what about school BOARD members?
12. Last thought the lunch program has created a business market as one student is claiming candy sales weekly of almost $100 from her locker!
13. Last thought again, does Dennis McWreath have the Pennsylvania record for abstaining on votes, he has to be close.
14. How dare Paul Kasunich make a decision without consulting Jack Keisling, and the 1972 school policy book. Furthermore how dare the superintendent make any decision he was not hired to make decisions.
15. How dare Paul Kasunich think that all of the BOARD members might be able to use a computer, change is for everyone but them.
16. Does anyone have a thoughtful story about Jack Keisling they might share on the blog when he was an administrator?

DON'T MISS THIS INFORMATION!

The elite eight strikes again with the choice of Nutrition Inc as our cafeteria supervisor in place of our former manager who from all accounts except for one BOARD member who got mad at him in her Trinity West days. This fine company who managed the cafeteria at Ringgold had a manager who advised employees on how to cheat on their applications to receive free and reduced lunch. He himself claimed his dog as his dependent. The only winner on the free reduced lunch scam, you guessed it Nutrition Inc. who submits to the government for reimbursement! Nice choice by the education minded not many of us have a college degree Elite Eight.
This one is better, a Trinity Area Athletic Team under advisement by new Athletic Director Bobby Jones played students who don't go to Trinity on a Trinity Team. I don't know what the penalty is but this obviously is not legal and I am sure we will read more about this in the local sports section soon.
Scott Day now helps with Cross Country he was seen helping again with Bobby Jones as the Unoffical Assistant Athletic Director today.
Remember these words "hockey tickets" you will here much more soon. It can't be possible that a school official used a school vehicle for personal use can it!
Thats all fokes I have open house tomorrow at the high school I am sure I will see some of the Elite Eight at the open house. Plenty of snacks should remain from the 9/11 festival.

TRUE OR FALSE

1. A school district administrator has been using a district vehicle for his own personal use?
2. Sandra Clutter said the football team practices five hours a night at the BOARD meeting?
3. Tamara Salvatori is now thinking on her own and doing whats best for students?
4. The BOARD does not permit the assistant superintendent in executive session?
5. Jack Keisling is getting harder to understand each meeting?
6. A Schweinebraten bus was parked at an attorneys office near the school during school hours alledgedly driven by a BOARD member?
7. Bobby Jones was seen at a sporting event?
8. Colleen Interval believes the louder you talk the more that makes you right?
9. Scott Day never played a varsity sport?
10. Sandra Clutter is now in a dispute with Henry Clemens?
11. None of the new members of the Trinity Sports Hall[Bodnovich, Day, Clutter] of Fame Committee played a Varsity sport?

Another Interval Policy!

As if we have not done enough without thinking, Coleen Interval[one of the two shoes] again seems to be rushing into another policy that is about athletics, this time she is smarter than the PIAA who governs sports. Maybe we need to see her transcripts from high school first, as she was obviously a great high school student. What University was that again she attended?
My children stopped buying school lunch, in the past I gave them five dollars a day. I understand healthy eating habits are important, but allegedly we now bake fries that the label says deep fry only...is that legal.
Is it possible one of our Chefs alegedly has a snuff can in his pocket during lunch in plain sight of the students.
Why dont BOARD members sign in when they enter the school building during the day and who should be enforcing this policy.
Scott Day might be soon named an Assistant Athletic Director he is in Bobby Jones office enough to have his own desk.
One of our BOARD members went crazy on a Trinity South Football Coach allegedly telling him it was a privledge for them to use our school districts fields. Um...they are tax payers
Last count 9/11 celebration at Trinity ten cars including Board Members, Superintendent, Honored Guest, Board Members Dad, is that maybe telling you something.
Subtract another job duty Pep Rallies.
Some food service companies in order to get contracts give school officials professional sports tickets, like hockey, thought you might want to know that unusual fact.
By law a school board member is only a school board member during a scheduled meeting... in other words any parent should be allowed to visit the buildings without signing in and see whoever they want correct?

PONY WORLD SERIES VOLUNTEERS

It seems odd that we have a new large group of BOARD members working the door at the Pony World Series. On a given night you could see two, three, or even four BOARD members at the PONY gate selling tickets or collecting tickets. Scott Day the BOARD member in charge of the Trinity Area Finance Committee hopefully has a system in place to monitor the revenue received and balance it against the tickets sold, so people will never question anyones honesty. An idea might be to ask Ken Bonnell, who has a long history with Booster organizations, and youth sports to help with the audit.