4 Quotes by Fred Nix

We did everything from getting the county nurse to visit the home to providing shampoos. School workers picked through their hair to make sure they were OK. Once detected with head lice the children were sent home until cleared. It became routine (for Stafford) to let her kids stay home.

So far this school year I've had 21 hearings at the board office with parents whose children had at least 20 absences.

Attendance in some cases isn't what we would like it to be, and when we have extreme cases shame on us if we didn't do anything. I've signed petitions and usually parents fix the problem. We've had cases with up to 30 and 40 absences in a 180- day school year.

I see this as a win-win solution. First, we retain ownership which keeps the land permanently within the public domain and thus available for all future generations. Second, the Utopia Grist Mill Committee will have an opportunity to continue pursuing its vision of restoring the mill.