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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Another year in
the books for PC
SMART program
Adult volunteers
share love of
reading with
young students
Blue Mountain Eagle
PRAIRIE CITY — It’s a
partnership with one thing
in common: a love of books
and reading.
Prairie City School stu-
dents in kindergarten, first
and second grades and
adult volunteers in the
SMART — Start Making a
Reader Today — program
gathered May 4 for an end
of the year celebration.
Each student each received
a certificate, a fun drinking
straw and a book, special-
ly selected by Prairie City
SMART coordinator Sabri-
na Howard.
“We love to see the part-
nership between the stu-
dents and community mem-
bers,” Howard said.
SMART is a national and
statewide nonprofit program
that empowers children
toward increased success
through books and reading.
Participating
students
this year were kindergar-
teners Madilynne Cearns,
Wyatt Davis, Nora Dona-
than, Anna Jacobs, Landyn
Lewis, Sophia Teel, Rayne
Thomas and Rylee Work-
man; irst-graders Syntheia
Bate, Erin Donathan, Ember
Dutcher, Emma Field, Colbie
Howard, Brenna Johns, Lea
Koos, Dominic Lee, Jonathan
Leighty, Brooklynn Mump-
ield and Samuel Rausch; and
second-graders Riley Davis,
Madeline Hassmiller, Ari-
anna Montwheeler, Kayden
Mumpield, Nick Perez, Ja-
son Phillips, Keira Teel, Mai-
son Teel, Izabella Williams
and Mary Woodbury.
Volunteers were Bee Lim,
Marge Walton, Jen Jacobs,
Michael Harvey, Diane Bur-
ril, Pat Shull and Howard.
The program, which has
been operating at Prairie
City for 11 years, is held in
one-hour sessions twice a
week from October through
May. Children receive a
book twice a month to help
them build their at-home
library and share the love
of reading with family and
friends.
“Our school has a phe-
nomenal Title 1 program to
boost our literacy needs, but
having the SMART program
adds balance to help kids
love to read and share the
enthusiasm with their vol-
unteer,” Howard said. “We
are so fortunate to be able
to serve our entire K-second
grades.”
MaKenzie Jones
selected for Girls State
Blue Mountain Eagle
The American Legion
Auxiliary of Post No. 106
in Prairie City has selected
MaKenzie Jones as a delegate
for Oregon Girls State in June,
Girls State Chair Jan Plem-
mons announced Wednesday.
MaKenzie Jones is the
daughter of Tom and Joanie
Jones of Prairie City.
Plemmons said Girls
State is a leadership program
sponsored by the Ameri-
can Legion Auxiliary. She
said MaKenzie will spend a
week at Willamette Univer-
sity in Salem, participating
in activities designed to in-
crease knowledge of govern-
ment processes and duties
and rights as citizens of our
country.
Restoration proposals sought
Blue Mountain Eagle
USDA’s Natural Resourc-
es Conservation Service is
seeking to restore critical
wetlands in Oregon and de-
clining aspen habitats across
Eastern Oregon.
Up to $290,000 in fund-
ing is available this year
for farmers and ranchers to
help restore aspen habitat
on private lands. Financial
incentives are available to
help voluntary landowners
perform aspen conservation
practices such as fencing,
conifer (juniper) removal,
invasive weed control, brush
management, upland habitat
management and livestock
watering systems.
Interested
landowners
should submit applications to
the NRCS by Friday, May 20.
For more information, con-
tact Lorraine Vogt, district
conservationist at the USDA
Service Center, 721 S. Can-
yon Blvd., John Day, at 541-
575-0135, extension 109.
The NRCS is also solicit-
ing proposals from state and
local governments, tribes,
nonproits and other organi-
zations to help restore and
protect vital wetland hab-
itats, which must be sub-
mitted by Monday, May 16,
at the NRCS state ofice in
Portland.
Through the Wetland Re-
serve Enhancement Partner-
ship, the NRCS is offering
up to $15 million nationwide
to help eligible partners in-
crease voluntary conserva-
tion on privately owned wet-
lands.
For more information,
contact easement program
specialist Bari Williams at
503-414-3226 or Bari.Wil-
liams@or.usda.gov.
Prairie City
School students
in kindergarten,
first and second
grades and some
of the adult
volunteers in the
SMART program
gather May 4 for
an end of the
year celebration.
The program,
which runs from
October through
May, is a national
and statewide
nonprofit that
empowers
children to have
more success
through books
and reading.
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