BAKER CITY â The Baker County YMCA will open a child care center at the Baker Early Learning Center in September.
The center will have space for 40 children â 12 from age six weeks to two years, and 28 three-, four-or five-year-olds.
In a press release announcing the facility, Rob Wilkinson, CEO of the Baker County YMCA, said the center is a collaborative effort to address a critical need for families and employers.
âWe look forward to providing high-quality, dependable child care to local families who need it,â Wilkinson said in the press release. âParents and other caregivers will be able to work productively throughout the community without worrying about the care of those most precious to them.â
UNION â Union School District Superintendent Carter Wells starts each day expecting to be surprised.
Still, none of his wildest expectations could have prepared him for the surprise he received on Monday, May 3.
Wells received the Doug Flatt Memorial Leadership Award.
âI was extremely shocked,â Wells said, also noting nobody dropped the faintest of hints about possibly receiving the award.
The Mid Columbia Bus Company and InterMountain Education Service District sponsor the award. Flatt was the chief executive officer of Mid Columbia who died in a plane crash in 2003. The purpose of the Doug Flatt Leadership Award is to recognize a school administrator in a district Mid Columbia serves who exemplifies the same qualities Flatt was well known for.
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PENDLETON â The fourth grade students at Washington Elementary School donned goggles, gloves and plastic aprons, in addition to the now usual masks, and headed outside to rows of squid dissection stations set up adjacent to the school on Tuesday, April 20.
The group of excited students found their way to their stations as fourth grade teacher Hunter Erwin began to give instructions to the classes.
As the excitement began to get louder, Erwin shouted, âink, ink,â the studentsâ hands shot up â fingers outstretched and waving â as they called back in unison âtentaclesâ in response before quieting down.
Before leading off the dissection he offered a reminder to students that the squid they were about to dissect were once living creatures and to treat them with respect.
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