{"id":94524,"date":"2019-08-10T00:06:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T04:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=94524"},"modified":"2019-08-10T00:06:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T04:06:17","slug":"basd-announces-employee-of-the-month-peggy-mckinnon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=94524","title":{"rendered":"BASD ANNOUNCES EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH &#8211; PEGGY MCKINNON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>August 2019<\/strong> &#8211; At the beginning of each school year, three outstanding teachers are recognized and receive the BEST Award at Convocation.\u00a0The BASD marked history today as we started a new tradition to highlight a support staff member and present them with the title of BASD Employee of the Month.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Joseph Roy, Superintendent of Schools, surprised Margaret \u201cPeggy\u201d McKinnon with the honor of being named the Bethlehem Area School District Employee of the Month for August 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Peggy McKinnon works in the Information Services Department as an Information Systems Specialist. She has been employed with the district for 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Roy stated: \u201cPeggy is highly skilled, dedicated, and respected by everyone. She is a wonderful representative of BASD\u2019s talented and committed support staff who, behind the scenes, help make the district run for the benefit of our students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We wish many thanks to Peggy for her continued service to the district. Congratulations Peggy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><code class=\"code\">-AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORDS-START-<\/code><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/August-Group-Peggy-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-94526 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/August-Group-Peggy-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/August-Group-Peggy-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/August-Group-Peggy-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/August-Group-Peggy-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/August-Group-Peggy-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<code class=\"code\">-AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORDS-END-<\/code><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Bethlehem Area School District<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bethlehem Area School District is the 6<sup>th<\/sup> largest school district in Pennsylvania serving nearly 14,000 culturally and economically diverse students in 22 community-based schools. The district serves five municipalities: City of Bethlehem, Bethlehem Township, Hanover Township, Freemansburg, and Fountain Hill. The district enjoys numerous community partnerships with universities, businesses, and arts providers that extend the schools\u2019 rich curricular and co-curricular offerings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nBarbara Clymer<br \/>\nExecutive Assistant to the Superintendent of Schools<br \/>\nBethlehem Area School District<br \/>\n1516 Sycamore Street<br \/>\nBethlehem, Pennsylvania 18017<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5720,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basd","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Peggy-McKinnon.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}