Merry
Christmas to all our online readers
Coloring
Contest winners named
Sierra Dawn Wright, age 4, Marissa Lustig, age 8 and Adrianne Nuxoll,
age 10, were the grand prize winners in the Chronicle’s annual Christmas
Coloring Contest. Wright won with an entry at Camas Prairie Insurance.
Lustig won with an entry at Schlader Photography and Nuxoll won with an
entry at Seubert’s Insurance. . . .
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School
Board meets
The school board had a light agenda at their December meeting Monday,
Dec. 18. . . .
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Grant
awarded to PMS teacher
Jessica Vanderwall, a fifth grade science teacher in Prairie School
District #242, has been awarded a $500 mini-grant award from Northwest
Professional Educators (NWPE), the state’s only non-union professional
teacher association. The grant will be used to purchase project supplies
for a Mars Rover project. . . .
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Notes
from Pat
Merry Christmas to each of you from Greg and Steve, grandsons Chris
and Mike and from Ramona and children Clayton, Carolyn and Rachael and
from me. . . .
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Hospitals
receive extra funds
The Kissler Family Foundation Philanthropic Gift Fund, one of the 350
individual funds administered by the Idaho Community Foundation, recently
awarded Clearwater Valley Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital a grant to purchase
a hospital grade portable breast pump to loan to new moms to facilitate
breast feeding. . . .
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Greetings
from South Africa
Brenna Riggers of Craigmont hopped a plane and headed to Umtata, South
Africa on September 11, 2006. She is working at Bethany Place of
Safety. This orphanage is directed by Sister Mary Paule Tacke.
Sister Mary Paule was born and raised in Cottonwood. . . .
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English
class has 9/11 poetry project
For several weeks, the junior English classes at Prairie High School
read and reflected on the events of 9/11. . . .
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Pirates
win 3 games; 82 champs hold reunion
The Prairie Pirates won 3 games last week, defeating Sitka at Kendrick
then beating Horseshoe Bend and Council in the Prairie Christmas Tournament.
. . .
During the Christmas Tournament a special presentation and reunion
was held for the 1982 boys and girls state champs commemmorating 25 years
since the occurrence. . . .
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Lady
Pirates win 2 of 3
The Prairie Lady Pirates won 2 of 3 games last week, losing by 2 to
Sitka at Kendrick and then beating both Horseshoe Bend and Council in the
Prairie Christmas Tournament. . . .
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Wrestlers
compete at Pullman
The Prairie wrestling team competed at the Pullman Tournament. . .
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Lots
of Summit basketball
Articles include the boys varsity winning 4 of 7 games, the girls varsity
winning 5 of 6 and the junior high boys finishing their season. . . .
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This year's Coloring Contest winners from left are
Sierra Dawn Wright, Marisa Lustig and Adrianne Nuxoll.
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Prairie Middle School had several winners in statewide
art contest. In the top photo Callie Mader was the overall state winner
in the State Dept. of Education's greeting card contest. She holds a copy
of the card with her artwork on it. In the middle photo Kody Duclos was
the 6th grade overall winner in the contest. In the bottom photo Alex Duman
shows the calendar page with his artwork. It was part of the Idaho School
Board Association 2007 calendar. All are shown with art teacher Sonesa
Lundmark.
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Santa got around last week. In the top photo Rachael
tells Santa what she wants for Christmas when Santa visited the Community
Hall after the Christmas Parade. In the lower photo Santa poses with 3
youngsters during his visit at The Hangout.
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A couple of the floats in the Lighted Christmas Parade
held Sunday evening in Cottonwood.
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The Prairie Middle School Christmas Concert was held
Wednesday, Dec. 13. From top down are the Junior High Band, the 5th grade
band members, the 6th grade band and the 6th grade general music group.
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One of the many examples of wind damage from the storm
last Thursday night and Friday morning. One of the large trees to the west
of Pat Wherry’s house snapped off and fell onto her garage. Wind gusts
exceeded 50 mph in many places with power knocked out about 2:45 a.m. Friday.
It was restored in town by 7:30 a.m. but not until as late as 4 p.m. in
outlying areas. .
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Cindy Omlin presents a check for a $500 grant to Jessica
Vanderwall, 5th grade teacher at Prairie Middle School. See story above
left.
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