Staff Profile: Maria Carmen Garcia

LIND – Maria Carmen Garcia is this month’s recipient of the Above and Beyond award from the Lind-Ritzville Cooperative School District.

Garcia performs multiple jobs for the school district, working as the migrant records clerk, a general education paraprofessional working with kids in the classroom, Lind Elementary School’s verbal translator working with parents, and working as the translator for the entire school district.

“She wears many hats,” Lind Elementary School Dean of Students Sarah Dinkins said.

Dinkins said she and principal Darrell Lembcke sat down together to choose from a large...