Volunteers, including students, will spend Saturday planting over 70 trees at Talent’s elementary and middle schools.
The project was created by the city’s Urban Forestry Committee and supported by a .
The entire district started a hybrid learning model Tuesday for the younger grades.
Mrs. Lowe, as she’s called, said the am-pm schedule at talent elementary is beneficial to both students and teachers.
Half the students arrive around 8 am and have class until around 10:30, then the rest come around noon and have class for a couple hours.
Next week, 4th through 8th grade will return.
Lowe said this day tops any other first day back at school, in her eyes.
“For me, the most important thing has been seeing kids coming on campus eager to learn. Kids literally running, parents waiving in the bus loop saying, ‘how did it go?’ or ‘have a good day!’, everybody is just so elated to finally be here,” she said.
JACKSON COUNTY, Ore One local coffee stand is stepping up this holiday season, to give back to people who lost everything in the Almeda Fire.
Jackson County Dutch Bros locations and the Dutch Bros Foundation, made a surprise donation of almost $290,000 today.
The money is going to the Phoenix-Talent Fire Relief Fund, to help rebuild the community.
On Black Friday, all Jackson County Dutch Bros locations gathered all of it’s proceeds, totaling more than $39,000
It combined that with an additional $250,000 from The Dutch Bros Foundation.
“Wow it’s hard to express our gratitude, this community is amazing despite all of the challenges we are going through, they really are rallying around Phoenix-Talent, so we are just so blessed and thankful,” says Heather Lowe Rogers, Talent Elementary Principal