A bald eagle from Hawk Quest led the 47 graduating seniors at New Meridian High School as they walked to across Longmont's Everly-Montgomery Field on a mostly sunny Friday morning.
A bald eagle from Hawk Quest led the 47 graduating seniors at New Meridian High School as they walked to across Longmont's Everly-Montgomery Field on a mostly sunny Friday morning.
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NORWAY The Alan Day Community Garden is a much busier place this summer with the return of an active agriculture education program for children and teens.
This year the Youth Leadership Program is being managed by AmeriCorps Vista Coordinator Pratt Olsen of Bethel and Reed Tinsley, Alan Day’s youth leadership coordinator.
Pratt Olsen shows kids the finer points of making pizza dough at the Alan Day Community Garden last Friday.
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Olsen and two of the young participants, Ben Langelier, 8, and Ben Cummings, 13, both of Norway, were busy in the kitchen preparing pizza dough last Friday morning. That evening, pizza would be baked in an outdoor oven and served during the farmers’ market that runs from 5 to 8 p.m.
Friends of the Children Detroit bridges the gap by joining mentors with at-risk youth
Nicole McKinney is the first executive director of a new program called Friends of the Children Detroit.
Posted at 4:12 PM, Apr 22, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-22 19:30:11-04
DETROIT (WXYZ) â Nicole McKinney is the first executive director of a new program called Friends of the Children Detroit, which pairs paid mentors with some of our most at-risk youth for years of support, helping them to build trust and inner strength to help them become their best selves. Research shows that a child who has a consistent caring adult in their lives has a better outcome for life, and so we start with children from 4 to 6 years old and we mentor them from when they graduate from high school, Mckinney said.