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MARQUETTE Ishpeming’s Partridge Creek Farm is spending October helping area students establish a positive relationship with natural foods during the natio
Ishpeming Middle School sixth-graders Kian Gauthier, Adam Aponte, Cash Klements, and Kane Welters make their healthy cooking competition-winning mashed potato bowl on Upper Michigan Today episode 263.
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ISHPEMING Ishpeming Middle School students have started the ball rolling on what could be a city-wide recycling program in Ishpeming. Teacher Paul Steinke and librarian Mary Milton, from C.L. Phelps Intermediate School, presented to the Ishpeming City Council Wednesday a report on the recycling program implemented last December at the middle school. “Since we started the project, many students and parents are wanting to know how to recycle at home,” said Steinke. Milton added, “Each classroom generates about 500 pounds of paper waste per year. We have a district with 66 classrooms which amounts to 33,000 pounds of waste per year that we’re adding to the landfill.” That amounts to $375 in tipping fees, she said. The council voted to provide the school with $500 funding for 100 more recycling bins and provide a traile
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Derek Meyer and Frankie Stetson, fifth-graders at Ishpeming Middle School, work on their dish, kale and chickpea pasta, on Wednesday during a cook-off featuring healthy foods. Competitions took place in the morning and afternoon. (Journal photo by Christie Mastric)
ISHPEMING Delicious smells wafted from the Commons area at Ishpeming Middle/High School on Wednesday smells that went beyond typical “school cafeteria” foods such as tater tots and Salisbury steak.
How about veggie pasta with Alfredo feta sauce?
Ishpeming Middle School fifth-graders carried out a successful community farmstand in October, selling student-grown produce and earning money, said May Tsupros, director of programs and partnerships with Partridge Creek Farm, co-founder and executive board member of Gardeneers, and founding collaborator with Sun Tree Collaboration.