May Employee of the Month

Congratulations to Dawn Northey!  Dawn is the well-deserving May employee of the month for Fern Ridge. 

She started with Fern Ridge as an Instructional Assistant in the fall of 2013 before transferring into a secretary position at the middle school.  Dawn became the head secretary at Elmira Elementary in August of 2017 where she has been keeping the office organized ever since.

To list all of the wonderful ways that Dawn helps to take care of EES would take many more pages!  A few of her daily tasks include answering phones, helping families with in-person and on-line registration, processing all of the registration paperwork, collecting student body fees, tracking classified and licensed substitutes for the building and helping with time sheets, staff schedules, coordinating volunteers, keeping track of all the student transportation updates, and countless other jobs that make EES run as smoothly as possible.

One of the things she likes most about her job are the wonderful people she works with and the families she is able to serve.  “I enjoy doing it because I know that families appreciate it…..sometimes it involves searching the internet for a form or a phone number, or setting up transportation for them so they don’t have to make one more call in their busy day.  The list goes on, but it brings me great joy to serve them.”

When she is not welcoming families and running the office, Dawn enjoys spending time with her two fantastic girls, Maddie and Mackenzie.  Maddie is a senior and Mackenzie is a junior at Elmira High School.   She loves being outdoors hiking, exploring, and kayaking down the many wonderful rivers here in Oregon.   She also enjoys family game nights (with all you can eat ice cream!) family movies, traveling to new places, reading a good book, and anything chocolate.

A huge thank you to Dawn for all of the countless ways you help our Elmira Elementary students, families, and teachers.  Congratulations!