Juli Olson retires from school office

After 20 years, Juli Olson is finally graduating from middle school.

The La Conner middle and high school administrative assistant retires at the end of June after working under six principals and through a school remodel and a pandemic.

Besides keeping attendance and other critical records, she has helped plan the 8th grade promotion and filled in as school nurse, lunch lady and field trip chaperone. Driving the school bus is the only job she hasn’t tackled.

Not all of her records have been official. During the years when middle school classes took place in the school district offices, she to...