Reba Lee, a former city council member for five years, looks forward to representing Bentley on the USD-440 Board of Education. Her first meeting was in January. Lee said that once children move from Bentley Primary School to Halstead Middle School, parents don’t give Bentley much of a thought after that, and she gets it. “I feel like sometimes Bentley does get overlooked a little bit, so maybe I can be the voice for Bentley,” Lee said. She thinks her time on the city council will help her term on the school board. “I learned a lot about different things that a lot of people don’t know about the ins and outs of the town, and I feel like I can bring that to the school board; just kind of give a perspective of the school board from Bentley,” Lee said. Lee and her husband have three children—a fifth grader, a fourth grader, and a 2-year-old—and have lived in Bentley for 10 years. Lee used to run childcare camps but said it wasn’t working out with her husband’s crazy deployment schedule, so in 2015, she decided to stay home with her children. Now, her husband runs a construction business and flips homes on the side. She has a pop-up consignment sale she runs three times a year. She also said she has a “small farm” in her backyard containing two pigs, three goats, some ducks, turkeys, chickens and dogs. Plus, she loves to garden. And if that wasn’t enough, the Lees purchased the old Independent office at 220 Main Street and are renovating it into a venue called Magnolia, which will open soon.
Source: Harvey County Now
