Harbor Council PTA names new president

Vicki Snell, a parent of two students in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District and a former PTA president at Adams Elementary School and TeWinkle Middle School, has been named president of the Harbor Council PTA.

The Harbor Council PTA is a parents’ group that oversees all PTAs in the Newport-Mesa district, relays information from the state and offers training and guidance for PTA presidents.

Snell, whose children attend the seventh grade at TeWinkle and the ninth grade at Estancia High School, served as PTA president at Adams and TeWinkle for two years each before taking the Harbor Council post. One of her goals, she said, is to encourage schools to work closely together, including schools in different parts of the district.

“That’s kind of my big goal, to work closer together and to get to know each other, because we all have a lot of the same problems and we can help each other,” Snell said. “We’re one big district.”

— Michael Miller