The Lewiston Auburn Children’s Foundation recently granted $1,000 to Sherwood Heights Elementary School in Auburn for the birthday book club. Each student at the school gets to pick out a free book to keep on their birthday. Lucy Bisson, left, is shown awarding the grant to Shawna Haley-Bear, right, librarian at the school.
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Congressman reads to Auburn students
U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, R-Maine, reads “Blue Sky White Stars” to fifth- and sixth-graders at Sherwood Heights Elementary School in Auburn on Friday. School librarian Shawna Haley-Bear invited Poliquin to attend Read Across America Day. “I wanted to let kids know that reading is such an amazing skill,” Haley-Bear said. Poliquin said the three most […]
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Words for Thirds: Grange gives dictionaries to third graders
Danville Junction Grange has completed its Dictionary Project for the year. This school year, dictionaries were distributed to 360 third-graders at five schools in Auburn and New Gloucester. For many years, the Grange has participated in the “Words for Thirds” project and have given more than 2,000 dictionaries. Shown in the photo with their new […]
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Lewiston Auburn Children Foundation awards Sherwood Heights grant for Happy Birthday Book Cart program
Lucy Bisson, left, Lewiston Auburn Children Foundation member, presents Shawna Haley-Bear, Sherwood Heights Elementary School librarian, with a check for $500 that will support the Happy Birthday Book Cart program. Pre-kindergarten through grade six pupils at the Auburn school can choose one free book each year on their birthday. The program encourages and celebrates reading, […]
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Elinor H. ‘Ellie’ Brockway
1928 – 2015 AUBURN — Elinor Hansen “Ellie” Brockway passed away peacefully, Tuesday, Sept. 22, at The Hospice House in Auburn. She was born on Oct. 20, 1928, in Lewiston to Rigmor Hornbak Hansen and Magnus Christian Hansen. Ellie graduated from Edward Little High School in 1946. She attended and graduated from the University of […]