Local businesses help pay off school fees for Bethel-Tate students amid budget cuts

Bethel University continues annual visit to sister school in South America

COLOMBIA, South America  — For 10 years, groups of Bethel University students have regularly traveled abroad to Cali, Colombia, and volunteered at the local school named Colegio Americano. The teams are continuing a relationship that began in 1928 when Reverend L. Swartz arrived as the first Cumberland Presbyterian Church Missionary to work in western Colombia, and, after three years, with the support of the Presbyterian Ladies of the United Sta…

Local businesses help pay off school fees for Bethel-Tate students amid budget cuts

As Bethel-Tate Local Schools faces $1.6 million in budget cuts, local businesses are stepping in to help students by paying off thousands in outstanding school fees.Community residents and two small businesses have paid all outstanding school fees for K-5 students at Bethel Tate, ensuring children could participate in end-of-year activities despite the district's financial challenges."I saw that some of the kids who had fees that were due weren'…