January is School Board Appreciation Month and we'd like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank our seven elected School Board members for their voluntary service to the District and to the greater Hillsboro community: Chair Mark Watson, Vice Chair Nancy Thomas, and Directors Lisa Allen, See Eun Kim, Erika Lopez, Patrick Maguire, and Monique Ward. We would also like to recognize and thank our three student representatives to the Board: Ivette Alonso Garcia of Liberty High School, V Godoy of Century High School, and Cailey McGuire of Hillsboro Online Academy and Liberty High School.
Butternut Creek Elementary students and staff members recently had the opportunity to participate in a component of the Butternut Creek Enhancement project called “Community Markers.” Community Markers is part of the multi-phase restoration effort that includes shaping the stream to be more resilient, improving water quality, establishing a biodiverse habitat of native plants, and collaborating with the school and community to strengthen relationships. In the 2021-22 school year, Clean Water Services staff provided environmental education and experiences for 200 students in all grades at Butternut Creek Elementary School. Students created art inspired by those experiences. Staff also convened a bilingual community working group with the Community Engagement Liaisons Service and a design firm, which created a design concept for the area, reviewed the art, and chose specific drawings to be engraved on 15 “beaver chewed” poles to be placed on school and walking trails grounds, along with five engraved stones. Helene Hale, a teacher at Butternut Creek was one of the members of the community working group. Clean Water Services, in partnership with Butternut Creek staff, held a celebration of these student art community markers, as well as a planting for new oak trees, on October 18th, 2022. See images from the event on our website.
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