(L to R) Ixareli Angeles, Valentina Fierro, Brynn Hamm, Patience Rhoades, Renata Rosales, Sarah Lowrance, Marie Melcher, Jordan Perez, Elliot Barsczc, Liam Joyce, Richard Lowrance, Reid Weller during their recent school trip to San Diego where they interviewed a professional podcaster. (Missing from photo: Alayna Hamm, Vicky Quintana & Alan Alvidrez)
Fifteen Silverton School students came together to work on a 2nd-semester economics project centered on local history. Silverton School Teacher Jordan Bierma’s humanities class had focused on the Great Depression (1929- 1939) during an economics course, and then the class researched how that era affected our own community in 1939. They found that there was a miner’s strike at the Shenandoah...