Eagleview Launches Little Red Bookshelf

Young readers picked out books from the Eagleview Community Foundation's "Little Red Book Shelf" on Saturday and Sunday during the 4th Annual Traditional Pow-wow. The Little Red Book Shelf program is an initiative of Project Read which has coordinated distribution of books to children throughout Itasca County. Look for the red book shelves at area businesses and government agencies.


Thanks to Pat Kraft (pictured), Diane Stay, Pat Sievertson,Connie Vesey, Judy LaTrace and Mason Bryan for their work on priming and painting the donated bookcase. Our Little Red Bookshelf will be stocked and available for children to choose a free book during regular CTC hours (Thursday and Friday 4:00-7:00 and Saturday noon-4:00).

The Foundation would like to thank the LIC for allowing us to do a root beer float fund raiser at the Pow-wow. We were able to raise over $200 for Foundation programs, gave books to 50 children, and watched some spectacular traditional dancers.

Watch the blog for an announcement of next year's pow-wow dates and plan to be here.

Charter School Update

Walden University President, Dr. Paula Peinovich, resigned unexpectedly a couple weeks ago and the Walden governing board declined to sponsor any schools this year. This left us in a bit of a bind, but we are not done by any means. June 6th Bev Moon and I travel to Minneapolis for a free review of our charter application by the Minnesota Association of Charter Schools. On the 7th I'll be meeting with the board of the Audubon Center in Sandstone. They have a lot of experience with sponsorship and have an excellent reputation in the charter school community.

You may recall that we considered pursuing sponsorship with Audubon back in November/December but decided to respond to Walden's request instead. Audubon required some curriculum components we thought might be too onerous for us to include along with pre-K literacy. Bob Wedl of the Sponsor Assistance Network has since negotiated a compromise with the Audubon board so that if accepted for sponsorship we won't have to make significant changes to our application.

On another front-we have an agreement with Leech Lake Head Start to have a program at Eagleview for the '07-'08 school year. More on that in future posts.

Toni