Thursday, February 7, 2019
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Volume 22, Number 51
Students help animal shelter feel like home By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
The animals at the Berlin Animal Control Shelter will be able to enjoy some of the comforts of home while they wait to be adopted thanks to a donation from the students of Mooreland Hill School.
By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
New high school graduation requirements and a public hearing on a proposed nearly 6 percent increase in school funding are on the agenda for the Monday, Feb. 11 Board of Education meeting.
The eighth grade class soared past its goal of $50, which it set before hosting its first bake sale, and recently delivered $707 worth of beds, toys and food to the shelter. The class raised the necessary funds through coffee and baked goods sales, donations and a dress casual day.
Students at Mooreland Hill School in Berlin delivered more than $700 worth of dog beds, toys and food to the Berlin Animal Shelter on Jan. 25. Devin Leith-Yessian, The Citizen
“This is one of the biggest donations we’ve ever seen,” said Animal Control Officer Kate Matson. “This has me blown away.”
The projects provided the chance to learn some skills, such as planning, a bit of cooking for the bake sale and budgeting, including accounting for sales tax.
A group of teachers decided to have the class take on a service-oriented learning project but left it up to the kids to choose what they wanted to do, said Head of School Reed Rathgeber.
The students took it upon themselves to reach out to the shelter to ask what supplies were most needed, figured out which stores had the best prices and determined how to spend their
office to stock up for the busifunds. “They really were thoughtful about how they er summer months. spent their money,” RathgeFor now, though, all the pets ber said. calling the shelter home, like Aitken the pit bull mix, will “They know they’ve done something good and worked have extra toys to play with. hard.” “Aitken is going to have that toy flipping around in his Matson said the donations cage later,” Matson said, mowill cover all the shelter’s needs for the seven ani- tioning to the balls the stumals currently staying there, dents had donated. allowing the animal control dleithyessian@record-journal.com
The changes being made to the graduation requirements are needed to keep in line with revised guidelines from the state Board of Education and will apply to the incoming freshman class. Principal Eileen Eustis said Berlin High School already exceeds some of the new requirements, such as the number of credits needed being raised from 20 to 25. Berlin currently requires 27 credits to graduate. “I think Berlin did a really good job of trying to get ahead of it,” she said. See BOE, A11
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“We chose the dog shelter because we’re all animal lovers … and we felt they needed something to start (the) new year,” said Eliza Palluotto, 13, who dropped off the donations.
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