Kidspeace Rumors

sfegley  posted on: 09/21/09 01:34 PM

Mike called me on Thursday last week with news that Kidspeace reps were at a Varick Fire Department meeting talking about fire protection for the new facility on Wednesday night. Things got less formal and a question was raised about kid contact between Kidspeace kids and Romulus kids. The Kidspeace rep misspoke and gave Steve Carey among others the impression that their kids would be on our sports teams. That is NOT the case. I called Glen Cooke for his contact at Kidspeace, Bill Marushak, and then called him directly on Thursday. He took Friday to clarify the situation about what got said and by whom and called me back Monday. Kidspeace will be opening their own private school on the residential campus and the kids that go there will have the same rights as other private school kids who live in our district - essentially none. There will not be Kidspeace kids playing basketball on the Romulus team (though we might be able to use some). Bill Marushak tells me that they are probably looking at a summer 2000 start up now, with red tape etc. Before they actually start, we may want to arrange a visit to a BOE meeting so you hear firsthand how things are going. Any help you can provide in quelching the damage done by the firehall rep, who did mispeak, would be helpful.