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Article: Schools seeking more drivers: TheW-JCC School District adjusts bus routes and schedules to make do with fewer drivers.
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- Daily Press (Newport News, VA)
- Article date:
- July 24, 2007
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Byline: Shawn Day
Jul. 24--JAMES CITY -- Mary Schermerhorn bristled at the thought of her previous career, in which she spent five years testing and inspecting packaged foods in a windowless Kellogg Co. laboratory.
"I should have been driving a bus all along," said the 42-year-old Charles City woman, sitting in a conference room at Williamsburg-James City County School District's operations center. Recently arrived from Indiana, where she drove a bus for two years, Schermerhorn had just finished another day of training to be a district school bus driver.
"I have several friends I'm trying to talk into driving a bus," she said. "The bus is very ...