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Jonathon Naylor Editor The Flin Flon School Division is in for an administrative shakeup as two principals and a vice-principal prepare to leave their positions. Hapnot Collegiate principal Bill Pauley and Ruth Betts Community School principal John Clark have decided to retire at the end of 2012, while Ecole McIsaac School co-vice principal Doug Mack is leaving the division in June. Current McIsaac principal Brent Bedford will take over as Hapnot principal effective Jan. 7, 2013. He is a former vice principal of Hapnot and Many Faces Education Centre. Decision The school board has yet to decide who will replace Bedford and Mack at McIsaac and Clark at Ruth Betts. While Pauley and Clark are calling it a career, Mack will be relocating to southern Manitoba after a lengthy stint with the division. 'Please join me in congratulating Brent on his new administrative assignment; Bill and John on their upcoming retirements; and best wishes to Doug and his family in their new home,' wrote Superintendent of Schools Blaine Veitch in a staff memo issued Wednesday morning. As part of the changes, trustees voted Tuesday to combine the two vice-principal positions at McIsaac into a single job effective the 2012-13 school year. Trustee Murray Skeavington, board chair, said part of the rationale is the feeling that some qualified staff are not applying for the vice-principalship of McIsaac because it is not full-time. In other hiring news from the meeting, trustees voted to place four teachers on substitute teacher agreements for the remainder of the school year. They are Laura Niven, Leslie Ruben, Melissa Morissette and Simeon Priddle, who retired last June as principal of McIsaac. The board also placed a non-certified teacher, Dennis Kubat, on a substitute teacher agreement subject to his successful application for a limited substitute teaching permit.
