School
Board meets
The school board held a short meeting Monday, Dec. 15. School funding
was discussed as Governor Butch Otter is looking at a 4% decrease due to
the economic downturn. . . .
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Hours
change at Library
Due to staffing issues and in consideration of heating costs the Prairie
Community Library is changing it's Tuesday hours. . . .
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Churches
to have candlelight services
Emmanuel Baptist Church and Cottonwood Community Church are each planning
candlelight services for Christmas Eve. . . .
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Arnoti
visits 4th graders
The fourth graders at Prairie Elementary enjoyed a visit from a well
known resident of the Cottonwood community. . . .
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School
plays scheduled
Summit Academy and Prairie High School each have a school play upcoming.
. . .
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Students
compete in FIRST LEGO League
9 students boarded a bus at 4:30 a.m. on December 6 and headed to Rathdrum,
Idaho for FIRST LEGO League competition. . . .
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Wilson
accepted to Leadership forum
Dakota Wilson, a student at Prairie Middle School, has been accepted
into the People to People World Leadership Forum. . . .
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Monastery
celebrates 100th year
From August 2008 until August 2009, the sisters of the Monastery of
St. Gertrude are celebrating 100 years “at home” in Idaho. During the year
and as a monthly feature, the Historical Museum at St. Gertrude will be
contributing a feature article entitled “100 Years Ago This Month” for
the Cottonwood Chronicle. We hope you enjoy this historical venture.
We welcome your comments. . . .
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Pirates
win 1, lose 1; Alumni Games scheduled
The Prairie Pirates lost a home game to Grangeville then came back
to win at Kamiah. . . .
The Tri-Parish Youth are hosting the Alumni Basketball Games again
this year. . . .
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Lady
Pirates win 2 of 3
The Prairie Lady Pirates lost to Genesee at home, won at Culdesac and
then won at home against Kendrick in girls basketball action last week.
. . .
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Summit
Academy news
Summit juniors and seniors were joined by their kindergarten school
mates last Wednesday as both groups traveled to the Monastery of St. Gertrude
to put on a Christmas party there for the sisters. . . .
Summit Academy officials released recently winners of the most recent
virtue campaign, calling on students to improve in the area of order, with
St. Therese as the saint model to imitate. . . .
Thursday and Saturday last week resulted in two victories for Summit
Academy boys as they traveled to Riggins for a win 45 to 36 over the Savages
there, then cruised to an easy 76 to 25 victory over the Highland Huskies
at a home game at Prairie High School. . . .
Patriot ladies ran their season record to 8 consecutive wins last week
with a second close win over the Timberline Spartans, 45 to 41, . . .
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Letters
to the Editor
On this page are letters to the editor that appeared in this week's
print edition. . . .
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Students of the month at Prairie High School for October
are Brock Heath and Rachel Kaschmitter.
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Prairie High School students of the month for November
are Kyler Shumway and Britney Hammond. They decided to show off Prairie's
latest hardware from the trophy case. Kyler is holding the football state
championship trophy while Britney holds the White Pine League championship
trophy.
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Ladd Arnoti receives a Christmas gift from the 4th
graders after he visited them to tell them about Hungarian Christmas traditions.
See story at left.
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Participants in the FIRST LEGO League. See story at
left.
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Hope McIntire, Jordyn Higgins, and Madison Hinkleman
posing after their winter tap recital, “Three Suites for Christmas.”
These girls have been participating with Melodee’s Center Stage in Nezperce
for the past four years. It was another spectacular performance as
over 60 dance students, ages 3 years old and up, performed tap and ballet.
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PHS students working on a variety of toys and presents
for pre school kids and the St. Mary's Hospital gift baskets. Wood has
been donated for a great deal of the projects from Hoots Cafe, Dave Poxleitner,
Bennets Lumber, Funke's Custom Cabinets, Bill Shuck, Gem Builders and Pacific
Cabinets. All the students in Jerry Richardson's classes are
helping building the presents.Items built include logging trucks, 4x4 truck,
boats, walking ducks, planes, helicopters, tractor rockers, wooden tool
boxes, tic-tac-toe games, Block sets and dinosaur crayon holders. In the
top photo are Chance Ratcliff and Nick Ackerman. In the lower photo are
Ryan Dalgliesh, Garrett Workman and Sheldon Klinkefus. More pictures next
week once we get IDs.
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Prairie cheerleaders form a pyramid with Camille Schumacher
on top as they lead a cheer during the break between quarters of the girls
game against Kendrick.
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(if you have an event you want on the events calendar,
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