Southen Living article -- Harrison High School Class of 1973

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Subject: Southen Living article

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Richie Arnold

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Date Posted: 09:57:34 05/17/07 Thu

I spent two hours in a doctor's waiting room yesterday and read every magazine in sight. While reading Southern Living (May 2007, I think), I saw an article about the Baker Prairie in Harrison and our own Cheryl (Ramsey) Satterfield was quoted. It was on page 64 or 65.

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Richie Poe
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Date Posted: 21:47:05 05/20/07 Sun

Cheryl has been real involved in maintaining and protecting the prairie. There is a club at the high school called "Keepers of the Prairie" that routinely cleans and patrols the prairie. I think Cheryl sponsors that club.

One of the "uncomfortable" decisions that school district made a few years ago was to build the new middle school in its present location. Many "friends of the prairie" thought it would infringe on the prairie. The district owned enough land to build the building, unfortunately, about two of those eight acres were on the designated prairie. A pretty involved campaign was begun to convince the school to trade that property and build somewhere else, leaving the prairie untouched.

Bottom line, the school couldn't find an acceptable alternate spot, built right there, and did have to excavate and use its part of the prairie, mainly to build holding ponds, etc to protect the rest of Baker Prairie from erosion and watershed. The school's acreage was a very small percent of the total prairie (I think it's about 65 acres) but still left a few upset patrons.

Cheryl as done an admirable job of still being pleasant to the board members who made that decision.

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