2012 President’s Report

March 2013
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St. Patrick’s
Day
Palm
Sunday
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Easter
Sunday
Early
Comprehensive
Fee Due
Passover
Junior Encounter ....................
Mass Parent /
Teacher
Conferences ~
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
No School
Ashland Field Trip .....................
Tuition
Assistance
Applications
Due
No School ~
Accreditation
Day
Spring Break .......................................................................................................................
Good Friday
Disney Planet Challenge
Watershed Restoration
Blanchet’s eighth grade
class, led by science teacher
Mrs. Halsey Randall, was
honored in May as the state
winner (6th place nationally)
of the Disney Planet Challenge
for their efforts to improve
the Willamette watershed on
school grounds. The Challenge
is an initiative that focuses on
inspiring kids and families around
the world to take simple steps
to help the planet and their
communities.
The eighth graders began their
project in January with the
clean up of one of four drainage
ditches and an adjoining swale
that eventually drain into
Claggett Creek. A native plant,
educational and demonstration
garden was also established.
The group’s efforts have been
recognized locally with a
grant from the Diack Ecology
Education Program and, most
recently, with a $7,500 grant
from the City of Salem to
continue to remove invasive
plant species and garbage and
to establish native plants along
all four ditch banks and the
swale. The goal of the project
and grant is to ensure that the
water leaving the Blanchet
campus is clean and cool when
it enters Claggett Creek.