This week is National School Bus Safety Week and Luverne School District drivers who were available Tuesday morning posed for a photo in the bus garage office after their regular route. Pictured are (front row, from left) District Transportation Director Lon Remme, Tony Scheidt, Mike Jarchow, Joyce Hartz, Gene Cragoe, Duane Klosterbuer, (back) Lyle Matthiesen, Harley Ailts, Johnny Bosch, Mike Kinsinger, Marlys DeVries, Jerry Binford, Keith Brandt, Bill Korth and Delmer DeVries. Regular drivers not pictured include Pauline Ailts, Bonnie Busse-Reu, Tom Fick, Larry Harms, Dale Hartz, Phyllis Mohr and Judy Thone. Substitute drivers not pictured include Stan Arends, Bill Beimers, Dan De Wispelaere, Larry Domagala, Gordon Hansen, Jim Ouverson, Jerry Reu and Art Wulf.
In her Friday Folder newsletter, Elementary School Principal Melody Tenhoff encouraged students and families to thank their drivers this week. "We have a very dedicated staff of bus drivers who have an extremely important job," she wrote in the Oct. 16 edition. "Not only do they have the safety of all the children on their bus to be concerned about, but they are the first and last school person to talk with the students. What a difference a kind word makes."
Photo by Lori Ehde