Snavely throws his hat into the ring for Fruitland School Board position
By Jennifer Colton - Argus Observer
Sunday, April 29, 2007 2:12 AM PDT
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| Wayne Snavely, who has farmed in the valley area for more than 30 years, stands outside his century farmhouse in Fruitland Friday. Snavely is running against Jim Smith for the Zone 1 position on the Fruitland School Board. |
Fruitland - For 50 years, Wayne Snavely said he has lived, breathed and worked the land in Fruitland.
As a seed farmer, Snavely knows Fruitland from the ground up — literally — and as a candidate for the Zone 1 position on the Fruitland School Board, Snavely seeks to bring that knowledge into play to help the school district.
“It’s a chance to invest back in the schools that invested in me,” he said from the living room of his century farmhouse Friday. “I just care about the community, and I have a love for the kids.”
Snavely was born and raised in Fruitland, traveling through the school system before attending the University of Idaho and earning a degree in economics. He then returned to Fruitland, where lives with his wife of almost 31 years. From his youth until today, Snavely’s home life has always been surrounded by education.
“My mother taught fourth-grade until she moved into special education and then retired from the Fruitland School District,” Snavely said. “My grandfather was Fruitland School Superintendent for a few years, he was a coach and a teacher, and my wife’s a teacher in New Plymouth. I know teachers’ perspectives. I have some idea what they experience, which I think will be helpful (on the school board).”
Snavely also has three children — the youngest a senior at Northwest Nazarene University — who all graduated from Fruitland High School, he said, and he said he is running for the board position because he was asked to.
“I don’t really have an agenda, I’m not out to accomplish anything,” Snavely said. “I don’t have to play any games. I just want to serve, to try and be useful.”
Snavely said he will try and support anything that maintains or improves Fruitland’s high standards, and although he does not know of any problems with the district right now, he would watch for any potential problems.
“I think from time to time all things need to be examined, their value analyzed,” he said. “I like to think I’m level-headed and a clear thinker. I’ve been on various other boards and commissions over the years — the Idaho Alfalfa Commission, the Board of Directors for the Crisis Pregnancy Center. I was a board member for the soil and water conservation service in Payette.
“I’ll do my best,” Snavely said. “That’s all they (voters) need to know.”
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And this isn't "racist," because Islam is not a race, anymore than Communism or Nazism are races, both of which killed far fewer people than Islam.
Disgusting. "