The fundraising office at Miami Shores Doctors Charter School is on-track to make money for the school this year.

The village of Miami Shores allocated $50,000 this year to support the schools new development office, and the effort is now expected to generate at least $82,000, for a net gain of $32,000.

So far, the school has raised $35,000 in private donations this year, up from $19,000 at this time last year with only volunteer fund-raisers.

Plans call for raising an additional $27,000 from the seventh annual Golf and Tennis Tournament, set for April 19 at the Miami Shores Country Club and Tennis Center, and another $20,000 from a fundraiser in May, bringing this years total to $82,000. Last years total was about $39,000.

The villages $50,000 contribution to the schools fund-raising effort this year includes $35,000 in salary for Development Director Ellen Bonet plus $15,000 for other fund-raising expenses.

Plans call for the village to make the same contribution next year, but for the development office to be self-supporting thereafter.

Bonet updated the Village Council on her efforts at a meeting Tuesday.

Mayor Jim McCoy said its still a little early to evaluate the fund-raising efforts, but he is encouraged by the progress thus far.

Doctors Charter School was founded in 2005 through a collaboration of Barry University, Miami Dade Medical Foundation, and the village of Miami Shores. MDMFs donation was divided into two parts. The first part was used in the founding and construction of the school, which serves grades 6 through 12. The second part is being held by the Village Council as emergency funds.

The $100,000 the school is using to create a Development office is coming from those funds.

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(Chris Detrick | The Salt Lake Tribune) The cast sings during a performance of 'Singin' in the Rain' at Olympus High School Friday March 29, 2013.

When 1,550 Olympus High School students return from spring break Monday, theyll walk into their new $75 million building with rooms wired for advanced computer technology, spacious labs with the latest equipment and spaces that range from small spots to collaborate on projects to a 1,400-seat theater.

Once asbestos is removed from the old Olympus High, built in 1952, it will be demolished in late April, and construction will begin on Titan baseball and soccer fields and a building with a competition-size pool. Making the move now will allow sports teams now being bused to Skyline High for practices to begin playing in the fall.

Opening Olympus High

An open house to show the public the new Olympus High School will be held on Wednesday, April 17, starting at 6:30 p.m. The new school is located just north of the existing campus at 4055 South 2300 East.

Four Distinguished Alumni Recipients will be named and honored. For more details call the school at 385-646-5400.

Olympus Principal Mark Manning, who graduated from the school in 1976, plans to have an alumni room at the new building.

"Were working to bring whatever we can over here," Manning said this week in a sparsely furnished front office. "There has been a lot of mixed emotions for a lot of people."

The Granite School District one of the largest, and most diverse, districts in the state is using a voter-approved $256 million construction bond to build the new Olympus High in Holladay and a new Granger High in West Valley City, which will open in the fall. Granger High will add ninth-graders for the first time.

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A tight-knit group of Oak Harbor High School alumni are reeling this week after learning one of their former classmates was killed in a car crash Thursday morning on State Highway 520 in Seattle.

Morgan Fick Williams, 58, was driving a Mazda Protege east near the Montlake Boulevard exit when a Ford Explorer being driven the wrong way on the highway collided with her. She was transported to Harborview Medical Center and Hospital in Seattle where she later died.

Williams was a 1973 graduate of Oak Harbor High School where she served as student body president.

She still kept up with a group of classmates long after she graduated from high school.

Morgan always maintained her friendships in Oak Harbor. She never left the class, said Mark Funk, who graduated with Williams.

He noted that Williams, who often rode the bus to work, drove from her Seattle home to her job at Eddie Bauer Thursday morning. She was planning to visit a former high school classmate who is in a hospice in Bellingham.

Pamela Marriott, who has known Williams since they were third-graders, was going to join her Thursday to visit their classmate. Plans changed once she, along with everyone else close to Williams, learned of the crash.

Its been horrible to say the least, Marriott said Friday morning.

Marriott, Williams and others were planning the 40th reunion for the class of 1973.

Marriott was a classmate of Williams at the former Clover Valley Elementary School and attended Oak Harbor High School when is was located on State Highway 20.

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