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] Date Posted: 21:47:05 05/20/07 Sun In reply to: Richie Arnold 's message, "Southen Living article" on 09:57:34 05/17/07 Thu 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. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |