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The butterfly man

  • by Neita Cecil, The Dalles Chronicle
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Grace Stoddard likes to recount that on her first date with her future husband, he brought along a butterfly net and caught two white butterflies. “In those days, it was not so cool to chase butterflies on your first date,” she quipped.

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New tool boosts student skills

  • Neita Cecil
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Teachers at The Dalles High School are excited about encouraging early results from a new program that helps students express themselves better, both in classroom discussion and in writing. Called ELAchieve, the program was designed to help English learners become proficient in “academic” English. But the small group of high school teachers who volunteered to take the training realized many students, including those in poverty, could benefit from the program.

Michael Lynn Snodgrass
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Michael Lynn Snodgrass

Michael Lynn Snodgrass passed away April 4, 2009. He was born in Prosser, Wash., on Oct. 15, 1954, to Ray and Mary Snodgrass. He was the secon…