March 16,
2001 IditaShageluk Update!
This is not the
end of our interviews so please stay tuned for a few more next
week!
IditaShageluk
Updates brought to you by the
students of the
Innoko River School
Something really
exciting happened today in school! Joy surprised us with $500
in one dollar bills. When Linwood got to Anvik he won a big dinner
and a $3000 award. He donated some of the money he won to the
three schools: Shageluk, Anvik, and Grayling. He wants us to buy
reading material for our classrooms. How nice is that! Many big
thank you's Mr. Fiedler!
Kelly, Student
Council President
Innoko River
School
Check out more pictures of our kids with the Linwood
Prize money!
Devin and Leroy's
Interview
of the IditaReaders
Leroy and Devin interviewed
Tiffany and Stephanie in the Middle School about IditaReading.
They told us IditaReading is about racing other classmates on
reading books. There is a big map of the Iditarod trail in our
school hallway! IditaReaders follow the same route as the Iditarod.
They have to read 20 pages to get to another checkpoint! They
have no limit to read each day. They can read as much as they
want to read. It took them five days on the trail from Anchorage
to Nome by reading books. They started reading a week ago. They
enjoyed reading for the Iditareading competition.
The IditaRead
Race to Nome!
IditaRead Finish
Line!
We want everyone to know how much local
village people volunteer and help out with the race. This race
has a huge impact on everyone in our village communities along
the trail. Without local village people's volunteering the race
would not be possible.
The Iditarod Sled Dog
Race is probably the largest mass arrival of outside people that
most of our small communities ever see.
Everything from breaking
the 60 miles of trail between Iditarod and Shageluk to hauling
all the bags of dog food and hay by snow machine from our runway
are done by local village residents and their kids!
(Ask Kelly, the
Checker's daughter!)
**A special greeting
to Bill
Hollis's class in
Walpole,
New Hampshire--our
Iditarod Pals for 8 years!**
Connecticut kids:
Sly
the Fox has his OWN
IditaShageluk Website link!
IditaShageluk
UPDATES:
March
15, 2001 IditaShageluk Update
March
13-14, IditaShageluk Update
March
12, IditaShageluk Update
March
10-11 IditaShageluk Update
March
10-11, continued!
Check
in here for an exclusive interview of Dee Dee Jonrowe
and
John Baker as they pass through Shageluk!
March
9, IditaShageluk Updates
March
8, IditaShageluk Updates
March
7, IditaShageluk Updates
Thanks for all
the helpful technical advise on how to convert
movies and pictures
so that things move along little faster.
We're just learning
about these terrific new toys here--
myself included
so all the advise is VERY welcome!
~Joy~
Look for the next interview
coming up soon!
"I WANT
TO RACE THE IDITAROD!"
Web Masters:
Sonta, Sophomore
Leroy, Freshman
Kelly, Sophomore
Devin, Freshman
Amber, Sophomore
Krista, Freshman
Production Advisors:
Sherry Roberts-Roach,
Elementary
Joyanne Hamilton,
High School
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Construction, Inc.
