PENDLETON — The South Madison Community School Corp. is looking for a new home for its old horse.
The Arabian horse sculpture that was once located outside the area of the new activity center at Pendleton Heights High School will return, but not at PHHS.
At previous board meetings, board members discussed restoring or replacing the horse. At the Aug. 15 meeting, a board member and Superintendent Joe Buck spoke of inquiries from people wanting to take the horse.
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School board member Kaye Wolverton said Markleville’s town council, at a recent meeting, said it would love to have the horse.
“They have a spot in their park, and they want to build a base for it. They want to come in to measure it and bring it into Markleville,” Wolverton said.
Buck said he has been contacted previously by a few people interested in seeing the horse placed in the roundabout between the middle school and high school.
The superintendent added that someone with ties to Tri Kappa, the organization that donated the horse years ago, also suggested putting the horse at the roundabout.
Buck said he has explored the roundabout option, but it would have to be approved by the Pendleton Town Council and, ultimately, the Indiana Department of Transportation.
“Right now, it looks like those are the two options,” Buck said.
Personnel approvals
In other business, the board approved:
• The resignation of Kayleigh Hamilton, a special education instructional assistant at East Elementary School.
• The hiring of East Elementary School instructional assistant Amber Tipmore was accepted.
• The transfer for Alexis Kelly from Kids Connection Caregiver at Maple Ridge Elementary School to Preschool Special Education Instructional Assistant at Pendleton Elementary Primary School.
• The termination of Jeff Bradley, a custodian at Pendleton Elementary Primary School.
• Four extra curricular recommendations, including Garrett Cupp as a middle school assistant football coach; Chad Wolfe as a sixth-grade boys basketball coach at Pendleton Intermediate school, Austin Price as the Pendleton Heights High School boys freshman basketball coach and Desiré Gibson as high school winter assistant cheer coach.
• Trip requests for the high school’s Future Farmer’s of America program to travel to the Southeast Regional Livestock Competition in Raleigh, N.C., Oct. 31-Nov. 3 and for the middle school cross country team to Mounds Park in Anderson on Aug. 16-17.