ers,” he said. In other news: • NCHS graduation will be

6 p.m. June 1. The last day ofschool is set for May 31.

• Students from BostonSchool’s 21st Century grant-sponsored after-school pro-gram performed on theirinstruments and talked aboutarchery. Other programsinclude homework help, aca-demic interventions, archae-ology, “Let’s Move” fitnessand Spanish, After-SchoolDirector Tyler Polston said.

“We learn discipline, likeif you do something wrongor do something that’sunsafe, you get in trouble,”said eighth-grader ClaytonCarter, who participates inarchery.

• The board approved afirst reading of a policychange that would graduallyincrease the number of cred-its required to graduate to 25.The increase comes as thehigh schools switch from asix- to a seven-period daynext year.

• The district has an occu-pancy permit for all ofThomas Nelson High SchoolPhase I and Phase II, ProjectManager Michael Salsmanof BCD Inc. announced.

• A new section of roof atNew Haven School is in thefinal stages of inspection,said Steven Ward of StudioKremer Architects. “By thenext meeting I’m hoping tojust be able to say we’re fin-ished,” he said.

• The board approved 14change orders for theThomas Nelson High Schoolconstruction project, includ-ing items related to movingthe football scoreboard (acumulative savings) and$1,406 to purchase addition-al letters for the school’s sign,which was originally to read,“Nelson County High SchoolWest.” The sign is now up.The board will save$3,447.25 by not adding aplay clock to the scoreboard.

• The board approved threefinal payouts to companiesfor construction work:$1,857.73 to Akins Companyfor an aluminum storefront atFoster Heights, $38,732.40to Emco Enterprises forpainting at Foster Heightsand $4,426.30 toProfessional Fence for fenc-ing at the Nelson CountyHigh School athletics com-plex.

• Before constructionbegins on the TNHS auditori-um, there will likely be aperiod in the summer whenthe district will have no con-struction projects under wayfor the first time since 1993.“Our hope is by October wewould be underway in get-ting [the TNHS auditorium]constructed, but we don’thave a real high expectationthat it will be completedbefore the end of next schoolyear,” Orr said.

• Because of some bub-bling in the BloomfieldElementary roof, the entireroof may be replaced, thecost of which is entirely cov-ered under warranty, accord-ing to Orr. The work wouldlikely take place over thesummer.

• The board approved five-day preschool and an addi-tional nine days in the pre-school calendar for next year.

• The board approved thesale of about $4,500 in stockpurchased years ago by aNCHS club. The money willbe deposited in the school’sactivity account, ExecutiveDirector of Operations TimHockensmith said.

• The board voted to allowthe district to consider bidsfor the sale of five schoolbuses, though they mightbring in more money beingsold for scrap metal,Hockensmith said. A 1987John Deere tractor was alsodeclared surplus.

• The board approved anincrease in lunch prices from$1.50 to $1.75 at the elemen-tary level and from $1.75 to$2 at the middle and highschool level for next year.

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The Nelson County FairBoard’s newest event mayalso turn out to be the coun-ty’s biggest antique tractorshow in years.

Admission will be free tothe Nelson County AntiqueTractor Show, which will beat the Nelson CountyFairgrounds, a half-milesouth of the Blue GrassParkway on New Haven

Road. Anyone doing ademonstration — showingoff their old tractors or farmequipment — can set up forfree at the event, 10 a.m.-6p.m. May 19 and noon-5p.m. May 20.

Proceeds from rentingbooths to vendors — $25per booth — will go towardthe fair.

“This tractor show —we’re hoping to grow it so itcan become something rightbefore the fair to make sure

we have enough money tostart the fair up,” fair boardmember Gary Ruth said.

A lot of people don’t real-ize how the fair boardspends the money fair visi-tors pay at the gate everyyear.

“Half of the money that’spaid at the gate goes to theride vendors,” Ruth said. Ofthe other half, much goes topay security, gate workersand parking attendants, too,along with helping maintain

the fairgrounds through theyear.

And expenses go upevery year.

“Our expenses arethrough the roof. When wehave rodeos we have to payfor that. When we have trac-tor pulls, we have to pay,”Ruth explained.

Still, gate sales are theboard’s main income for theentire year. So the board istrying to bring in some extrarevenue, with the goal of

eventually hosting monthlyevents.

Though Nelson Countyhas been host to tractorshows in the past, many ofthem have been smallerevents, the result being thatthose Nelson Countianswith antique tractors have totravel to go to shows.

“We decided from theget-go to have this be a bigevent,” Ruth said. “There

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