MEXICO – Two young people who graduated from Mountain Valley High School are running for two seats on the SAD 43 school board as write-in candidates.

Jarrod Dumas, 24, and Amy Bernard, 23, are seeking the seats being vacated by Courtney and Faye Prentiss who are not seeking second, three-year terms.

Both young people are currently working as youth workers at Rumford Group Home.

Dumas graduated from MVHS in 1997, then from Colby College in 2001 with a degree in government. For the past year he has coached and substitute taught within the SAD 43 district. Prior to that, he worked in Washington, D.C., helping to coordinate an exchange program for Freedom House that teaches mostly former communist countries about democracy.

He hopes to eventually become certified as a teacher.

Bernard graduated from MVHS in 1998, then from the University of Maine in Farmington in December 2002 with a degree in history and political science. She has worked as an intern for Rep. Michael Michaud, D-Maine, in his run for Second District congressman, and for David Costello, who ran for that seat during last year’s primaries.

Those wishing to vote for either or both candidates should write Dumas’ name on line 1 of the ballot, or Bernard’s name on line 2 of the ballot.

If both are successful in their bids, they will join Mexico’s other two school board representatives, Chairwoman Betty Barrett and Peter Zanoni.

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