Welcome to the Skyline School Garden & Community Garden web site! Here you'll find pictures of the cistern construction and current activities at Skyline. Visit regularly to see what's going on.
$ for this project came from an OWRB Water Conservation grant (& in-kind support for the grant) that Sustainable Stillwater wrote in conjunction with Skyline Elementary, OSU Extension (including BAE Department & HLA Department), Stillwater Public School System & Board of Education, and the City of Stillwater. Additional $ for the solar / battery pump system (see favorite links) came from the League of Women Voters' Helen Gorin Memorial fund. Donations have also come from Perkins Sand, LLC and Kinder Dozer, Inc. In-kind match included Michael Holmes’ Landscape Design class (13 K-1 playground designs done in collaboration with Skyline kindergarteners); the City of Stillwater’s donation of equipment and labor to build the cistern; the Skyline Elementary & Stillwater Public Schools for materials, land, labor, and signage; and Dr. Lou Anella's time and materials assisting with irrigation system installation. The Payne County Master Gardeners have supported the project with labor and small WalMart grants.
The irrigation plumbing drove me crazy these last 2 weekends in March - note for the future, only buy pipe and fittings from one company that has the widest selection of fittings possible -- but there were a number of volunteers helping out and that I do appreciate.
This last weekend Kelly and Jimmy finished up the irrigation trenching to the 5 small raised beds, Doug brought out finished compost and oversaw the small composting bins he made for the garden, Doug also assisted me with the irrigation plumbing.
Rebecca and Corinna continued on the rock-level raising project in the cistern that Kelly and Jimmy had assisted with the previous week. There was about 4 inches settling of the sand and rock in the months since original construction, which left some ponding in the cistern behind the weir that ordinarily would be great for a cistern or bioretention cell to help with infiltration, but which wasn't so desirable in a school playground setting. So we continue to move rock onto the cistern and clean up the remaining piles of rock in the staging area. This will be an ongoing project this spring and summer.
Melissa and Ilda came out to help later on Sunday and Monday with planting groundcover, planting daffodils, planting more Asian Pears and painting the fruit trees with something that should keep the nemotodes away I think. LeeAnn, help me here with what exactly is in that white "paint"--
I know others would have helped if they had been in town, and others if they weren't sick or busy with spring fever on their own landscapes. I am grateful to my husband and brother for looking after the kids while I concentrated opn Skyline projects. I look forward to seeing more people out there this spring and summer.
Dr. Lou Anella donated his time as an irrigation consultant to the project in the last month, and assisted with tracking down useful fittings in the community and from his private stores including irrigation pipe.
As of March 31st (today) I will be stepping back from the project and becoming a regular volunteer like everyone else (meaning I need to get back to work and get some personal time for my family and home landscape). But I will be helping out with the community garden (overseeing the irrigation/cistern functionality of course) and education events as needed. We have Skyline's Outdoor Day educational activities to plan for prior to the big day April 30th.
Thank you for everyone's help with this project! I'll never be able to thank everyone for everything that made this project successful, but I will try --
Sharla Lovern
I’ve uploaded new pictures to the web site http://skylinecistern.shutterfly.com. You’re very welcome to join the site as a member, I believe I’ve only got it sending a monthly email to people if changes occur on the website...
Jan, lots of pictures of crocuses are posted, hopefully you’ll see some you like. If you can’t download a good copy, let me know and I will email you some directly.
You’ll see in the attached pictures, or if you go out to the Skyline garden, that almost all of the seeds we planted have started sprouting!!! Even the sage is sprouting!
Just in time for snow and bitter temperatures. Rebecca said she’ll go out with me Friday (tomorrow) and try to cover the little ones with some of that white cloth I have and stake it down --and hope that helps them survive this cold snap. But, we probably can look forward to planting again in some spots on Sunday or on March 27th (assuming we have seed left to plant – some of our seed has been depleted). I’ve left a number of seed packets in the teachers’ gardening cabinet just inside the school doors near the cistern (for the teachers to use if they choose in the areas of the garden that the community gardeners have not planted – of course the teachers can contact us if they need assistance for those areas)– Denise said we can store tools in that interior cabinet too, if we don’t trust the little shed for our supplies or tools, but we won’t be able to access that during the weekend unless a teacher is with us. Doug has invested in the garden with the wire he’s brought for the composter collectors and for the new trellis arch. I’ve invested in the garden with the onions, potatoes, and many seed packets I brought and bought. Kiem has invested with the asparagus and peas. Cheryl has invested with many seed packets she’s donated and other stuff she’s willing to donate from her garden anytime. LeeAnn Barton donated the fruit trees….What I’m trying to say is that with a little investment from lots of people (I haven’t mentioned all the donations or all the volunteer efforts – donations of time and labor are HUGE and we’ve had many other people investing there including Melissa, Kelly, Ilda, Jimmy, Allison, and many others) we’ve created a nice garden out there and just have to play the roulette game of chance with the weather. If anyone wants to step forward and formalize the community garden effort we have, we can always take suggestions. Google “community garden association of america” and you might find some good ideas. Here's one good link: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/Kinder/communst.html
I’m guessing that the work day will be called off this Saturday, unless the weather forecast is really wrong. And it looks pretty wet and cold on Sunday too – so perhaps Friday or next week I hope to get out and work on digging some more irrigation valve box space and finishing up the connections for 4 zones – the 65’ bed, the 5 square beds, a hose connection for filling buckets or watering by hand, and an irrigation zone ready to go for the future butterfly garden when it is decided how that needs to be irrigated. We have the potential for 4 more zones beyond these 4 (total 8), when/if the garden expands. I also have a rain sensor that I need to install soon, so that the irrigation zones shut off after a rainfall and don’t start again until there is a period of dry weather. Over this past week Lou Anella and I got various components of the pump/timer/solar setup replaced and connected – they are running and ready to go – and we created the valve/solenoid manifold for controlling the first 4 irrigation zones. Last Saturday a bunch of great volunteers helped dig the worst part of the new irrigation line, and the remaining work should go faster.
This weekend’s bad weather will make recruiting for the work day on March 27th even more essential, and it will be essential that more leaders step forward among our group to lead new volunteers in our last spring clean-up efforts to get this cistern and school garden fully up to-date before the final report is due on this grant – yikes March 31!
Please contact me if you can help recruit and also lead the volunteer effort a week from Saturday. I can get you connected with some of the tools and info needed to complete these last smaller projects.
From: Carlson, Jd
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 4:25 PM
To: BAE-Faculty; BAE-Clerical; BAE-Staff; BAE-Grad
Subject: Forecast Update: Saturday SNOW
Colleagues -
Well, compared to this morning’s computer runs, where both the GFS and NAM models were indicating the potential for up to a foot of snow here on Saturday, the latest runs have backed off .. and now it looks like 2-5” is more likely. Some of that will melt on contact, so we’ll be lucky to have a couple of inches on the grassy surfaces (which will melt on Sunday).
It’s not that unusual to have late March snows in Oklahoma. In 1994 Stillwater got 19” in one snow event in mid March. And the all-time 24-hour snowfall record in Oklahoma, according to our Mesonet climatologist, was 26” at Woodward and Freedom on March 27 (the same date as this Saturday).
The main impact will be the strong N to NW winds with wind chills below freezing on Saturday .. not a very nice day with a high of about 35F.
Note, however, the model output has vacillated with every 6 hour cycle, so this is not to say there could be heavier snow on Saturday. I’ll check the models again on Friday afternoon and give you the latest. Perhaps we’ll get lucky (or unlucky, depending on your point of view) and get a foot of snow after all.
J. D. Carlson
BAE Resident Meteorologist
PS – Just for the fun of it (I like to compare my forecast with NWS), the official National Weather Service forecast is a bit more dramatic than mine, with up to 8” in our part of the state:
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
320 PM CDT THU MAR 18 2010
OKZ004>031-190430-
/O.NEW.KOUN.WS.A.0003.100320T1200Z-100321T1200Z/
HARPER-WOODS-ALFALFA-GRANT-KAY-ELLIS-WOODWARD-MAJOR-GARFIELD-
NOBLE-ROGER MILLS-DEWEY-CUSTER-BLAINE-KINGFISHER-LOGAN-PAYNE-
BECKHAM-WASHITA-CADDO-CANADIAN-OKLAHOMA-LINCOLN-GRADY-MCCLAIN-
CLEVELAND-POTTAWATOMIE-SEMINOLE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BUFFALO...ALVA...CHEROKEE...MEDFORD...
PONCA CITY...ARNETT...WOODWARD...FAIRVIEW...ENID...PERRY...
CHEYENNE...TALOGA...WEATHERFORD...CLINTON...WATONGA...
KINGFISHER...GUTHRIE...STILLWATER...ELK CITY...SAYRE...CORDELL...
ANADARKO...YUKON...EL RENO...MUSTANG...OKLAHOMA CITY...CHANDLER...
CHICKASHA...PURCELL...NORMAN...MOORE...SHAWNEE...SEMINOLE
320 PM CDT THU MAR 18 2010
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH
SUNDAY MORNING...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM
WATCH FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING FOR HEAVY SNOW
ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHERN...WESTERN...AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA.
* TIMING: EARLY SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING.
* MAIN IMPACT: HEAVY WET SNOWFALL REDUCING VISIBILITY AND
ACCUMULATING OVER 4 INCHES IN MANY AREAS...WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS
OVER 8 INCHES IN NORTHCENTRAL OKLAHOMA.
* OTHER IMPACTS: WIND GUSTS OVER 45 MPH WILL COMBINE WITH
TEMPERATURES JUST BELOW FREEZING TO PRODUCE WIND CHILLS IN THE TEENS.
If you want to try to tough it in the cold this coming weekend Sunday Feb. 28th 1-6, I will try too. But if it is raining or snowing, it is a no-go.
Please email me if I can add you to the list of volunteers for a particular date and time. I’m probably over-looking many items in the list, remind me please if you think of them.
List of volunteers and dates and possible projects from lists below:
Sunday Feb. 28th 1-6 Sharla, Ilda, Melissa – Project #5 below? – Project E? Weeding of beds, mulching?
Early March – delivery of last load of river rock, Project A
Sat Mar 6th 1-6 Sharla, 1-4 Ilda – project #2, possibly also project #5?
Sun Mar 14th 1-6 Sharla, Ilda, Melissa - Project #3
Mid-March – Project B, Project C
Sat Mar 20th 9-6 (am or pm) Sharla, 1-6 Ilda – Project #1
Sat Mar 27th 9-6 (am or pm) Sharla, 1-6 Ilda – Project #4, Project #6?
Late March – Project D
There are some tasks ahead to both finish the cistern project and to move ahead with the community garden (the backbone of the school garden):
1. Move the last remnant piles of rock and one more load of the small stone – this would have to be scheduled after delivery of 1 more load of 1/8” river rock which would have to occur after a couple of days of “dry-out” time --ie. warm weather, no rain. (Boy Scout, College Student recruitment?)
2. Plant seeds (and if we can’t get it all done on a particular date, we can leave some for the school teachers and kids to do, I know they’d like to do some planting especially if we got everything ready for them). Also plants can be purchased and brought in, like broccoli, cabbage, and kale plants.
3. Dig trenches for drip irrigation extension to new irrigation zones, also wire/install and program and re-connect the irrigation timer and pump. I should have the necesary materials within the next two weeks.
4. Bobbing ruler replacement (we had two instances of vandalism and the second one completely destroyed the functionality of the ruler) – I need to get the pricing list together, Mr. Blake (the Skyline principal) wants to pull together a purchase order before Mar. 12, so this may take place closer to the end of the month.
5. We can use a tiller or some people with tillage-type hand tools to help prepare a few planting beds for the school – one for Leann Cain’s sunflower garden near her classroom (North side of the School) and another on the NE side of the school between the blacktop and the gym. Once the soil is leveled, we can spread mulch or some other type of ground cover. This new NE bed can be planted at the school’s outdoor day in April.
6. Fix up shed with a lock to store tools, or get a grant for a tool shed?, build a little bridge or a platform outdoor classroom (Boy Scout, College student recruitment?)
7. Work with teachers to involve them as they desire with the cistern. Water quality project with Mrs. Major, 5th grade?
8. Request mulch from the city of Stillwater or haul loads of mulch to the school
9. Continue working with composters located by sunflower garden and by tool shed to get good-looking composting activity (purchase a compost thermometer?)
I had a meeting with Mr. Blake, principal at Skyline, and have a better idea about where things are heading with both garden and cistern objectives.
A. Mr. Blake is going to arrange for the plumber to check out our cistern connection and the municipal water supply disconnect, make sure we meet code. Of course, if possible, we would like to be able to use municipal water as an emergency back-up for the garden, but we will see what is possible to prevent backflow.
B. The school is looking into expanding their security camera system, so with the OWRB/cistern $ we will not plan to purchase a security camera to deter vandals (the bobbing ruler was smashed to pieces) and Mr. Blake would like to replace the ruler so I will be pulling together the replacement costs and vendors.
C. I may look into installing additional latches on the “vandal-proof” blue box that protects the pump, but that may not be enough to deter a pry bar. Hopefully the vandals will not go to that extent, so far they have been using tools that have been left by the door, and I recently moved those inside the school’s locked storage room (sorry teachers who might be confused as to where those supplies went)
D. The school is looking into fence options for the cistern and perhaps the playground area in general, so planning to meet the objectives of the community garden for a secure area for tools and supplies will have to wait to see what happens. A small fence such as Mr. Anders and Sharla discussed would not be needed in that case. Sharla mentioned utilizing the fence for perennial and annual vines (peas and beans and flowers to attract hummingbirds and other vegetables that could vine and allow the fruit to hang suspended), and getting irrigation to those areas, things that might influence the placement and type of fencing that was used. Sharla also mentioned Mr. Anders’ offer to look into the school system purchasing one more load of 1/8” river rock so that the ponded water can be removed as a potential liability, and perhaps that will also influence the type and placement of the fencing.
E. Mr. Blake will look into borrowing a tiller from the school system, so perhaps Skyline doesn’t need to purchase their own tiller (Denise mentioned this as a possibility at a Monday meeting)
Thank you,
Sharla Lovern
From: Carlson, Jd
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 1:21 PM
To: BAE-Faculty; BAE-Grad; BAE-Staff; BAE-Clerical; BAE-Undergrad
Subject: Why Has It Been So Cold and Cloudy This Winter ?
BAE Colleagues -
Below is the scientific, meteorological explanation for the unusually cloudy and wet winter thus far across the southern Plains. Of course, this doesn't explain why El Nino is strong this year or why the Arctic Oscillation is strongly negative this year (other than their cyclic nature). But the immediate scientific answers are a strong El Nino combined with a strongly negative phase of the AO.
And there are two more storm systems aiming toward Oklahoma - one for Friday and one for early next week. The El Nino pattern continues - I'd suspect that March will be wet and cold as well.
J. D. Carlson
Resident Meteorologist
PS - I was in Tulsa last evening and, in accord with this, found out from Travis Meyer (Channel 6, KOTV) that during the 2008-09 period of Thanksgiving through Feb. 22, Tulsa had 27 days in the 60s and 70s; this season during the same period, there have only been 8 such days. So it's not your imagination - sunshine has been a rare event compared to a normal Oklahoma winter and temperatures (esp. daytime maxima) have been greatly depressed.
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From: OCS Mesonet Ticker [ticker@mesonet.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 11:33 AM
To: OCS Mesonet Ticker
Subject: OCS Mesonet Ticker
MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ...
February 24, 2010 February 24, 2010 February 24, 2010 February 24, 2010
The OCS/Mesonet Ticker: Fair to mostly punny.
So Why So Cold?
Two significant ice storms and several heavy snows, including a record-setting
13.5 inches in Oklahoma City during the historic Christmas Eve blizzard, have
left Oklahomans wondering where the warm winters of the past 20 years have gone.
While Vancouver has had to truck snow in for their Olympic Games, Oklahoma and
points even farther south have gotten a crash course in Midwestern-style winters.
Oklahomans have no doubt enjoyed that string of warmer winters over the last
couple of decades. In fact, 14 of the previous 20 winters in Oklahoma have been
above the long-term average in temperature, including the all-time warmest in
1991-92 and the second warmest on record in 1999-00. That is not to say that
every winter has been or should be warmer than the last, of course. Natural
variability still plays a part in Oklahoma’s weather conditions and always
will. Even during this string of warmer winters, cold winters will still
materialize, such as the current winter and that of 2000-01. Natural
variability at times leaves Oklahoma at the mercy of weather patterns from
far-off parts of the world. That is exactly what has occurred this season as
sea-surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean and higher-than-normal
pressure over the North Pole has left us chilled in a seemingly perpetual gloom.
The 2009-10 El Niño event, previously forecast to be of moderate intensity,
turned out to be the strongest since the 1997-98 “super” El Niño. During a
strong El Niño, the storm track shifts to the south during winter and can bring
more storm systems across the state. Along with those storm systems comes more
cloudiness and precipitation. Those two trends are evident in data from the
Oklahoma Mesonet, the state’s weather network. The statewide average
precipitation total since the beginning of climatological winter (December 1)
through February 22 stands at 5.26 inches, a third of an inch above normal and
the 29th wettest winter since 1921. The totals from southern Oklahoma are much
higher than normal, with southwestern Oklahoma experiencing its 11th wettest
winter thus far. Similar totals exist for south central and southeastern
Oklahoma. This is exactly the type of pattern expected with El Niño and the
southerly shifted storm track.
A casualty of all that cloudiness and precipitation is sunshine, and data from
the Oklahoma Mesonet exemplifies that once again. The Mesonet’s instruments
that measure solar radiation have received a mere 46.2 percent of possible
sunshine this winter, the second-lowest total since the Mesonet began in 1994.
Only the winter of 1997-98, the second wettest on record and the “super” El
Niño winter, was gloomier.
The impact on Oklahoma’s temperatures has been to suppress the daytime high
temperatures much more than the lows. The average high temperature from the
Oklahoma Mesonet this winter has been nearly 6 degrees below normal while low
temperatures are less than 2 degrees below normal. The cloudiness helps block
solar radiation during the day while trapping heat during the overnight hours.
For the winter thus far, the statewide average temperature was 34.6 degrees.
Oklahoma City’s lowest daily temperature this season has been 6 degrees, which
is certainly cold, but nowhere near the sub-zero temperatures seen in its past.
The coldest daily temperature reported during Oklahoma City’s relatively warm
winter last year was also 6 degrees.
Another culprit responsible for our cold winter is a phenomenon known as the
Arctic Oscillation (AO), which can shift between negative and positive phases
during the span of a couple of weeks. When it is in the negative phase, as it
has been for much of the winter, high pressure over the North Pole deflects
the bitterly frigid air from that region farther to the south into the interior
of the United States. Temperatures in the Arctic region rise tremendously and
those farther to the south plummet. The values for the AO Index, which measures
the relative strength of the AO, during December were the most negative for
that month since record keeping began in 1950, and have dropped to that level
again during February. Combine a strongly negative AO with a strong El Niño
and you get the historic snows that much of the eastern half of the United
States has seen this winter, as well as those in Oklahoma and Texas.
Even as the vagaries of Mother Nature conspire to give us a winter more
reminiscent of our past than our present, it is important to remember that a
single season or year does not make a trend. Until the weather pattern changes,
Oklahomans might see their Midwestern-style winter continue.
Gary McManus
Associate State Climatologist
Oklahoma Climatological Survey
(405) 325-2253
February 24 in Oklahoma History:
Record Maximum 99 F at ARAPAHO (1918)
Record Minimum -3 F at MAY* (1913)
Record Precip 3.80" at ATOKA DAM (1985)
+Record Snowfall 16.00" at KENTON (1903)
(Oklahoma History = since roughly 1895)
+ - May include hail or other forms of frozen precipitation
February 24 in Mesonet History*:
Record Maximum 82 F at HOLL in 2002
Record Minimum -3 F at MEDF in 2003
Record Rainfall 1.77" at KETC in 2007
* - Mesonet History = since 1994
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The Skyline cistern is heading into a new phase of the project, where we monitor the water savings/usage and compile education curriculum materials for the future.
We successfully completed a 3-day (Sept. 30-Oct. 2) "Introduction to the Cistern" rotation of almost all the Skyline K-5 classes through 3 educational stations about the water cycle (the cistern's place within the cycle), crocus planting (use of the cistern), and rock placement on the cistern (water quality protection and school art project). Thank you to Cody Whittenburg (City), Denise Ferrell (Skyline), Brooke Phipps (Skyline), Sharla Lovern (OSU/SSTW), Cheryl Baker (Sustainable Stillwater), Rebecca Chavez (OSU), Shelley Mitchell (Sustainable Stillwater/OSU), and Cara Beer (Sustainable Stillwater) for their teaching assistance.
As of Oct. 14th the cistern still looks good (no vandalism noticed). Over 400 crocus corms were planted around the cistern and we anticipate a beautiful spring display.
We need to recruit "garden watchdogs" to collect monitoring data on the cistern and get more teachers to realize the potential educational uses of the cistern. We have a 7-day digital rain gauge, a regular rain gauge, a cistern water depth "bobbing ruler," and the irrigation controller to monitor and look at the water budget for the cistern and the connected rooftop area.
Today we have a large rainstorm that will test the rock cover of the cistern and determine where we need additional rock placed. The children were not able to move all the rock planned for installation on the cistern, though the river picture was achieved for their school art project.
More volunteer recruitment will be needed to finish the rock installation and clean-up of the rock staging area. Future projects also include installing more drip irrigation line and wiring/programming the irrigation controller to supply water to those zones. Additional features to enhance the project include installation of the recycled "river glass" rocks, possible installation of gutter or connection of more gutters to the cistern, possible installation of fence if needed or outdoor classroom features.
This is a call for water-interested volunteers to help introduce Skyline’s new underground sand-water cistern (pictures attached) to the elementary school kids, faculty and staff – and helping the kids to start adding aesthetic details to a functional cistern, and making this space “theirs.”
We could use 6 to 8 adults for every class listed below on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (but we will make due with what we can get). Parents are very welcome. I’m keeping track of volunteers in that line below each class (so far only 2 of us for each time period).
We have jobs for anyone – photographer (at least one group photo per class), helping kids plant crocus bulbs in one area next to the cistern – helping kids load rocks into a small bucket from a rock pile -- helping kids unload the rocks to the right location on the top of the sand cistern to create a “dry-bed stream” --- and if some of you want to help teach the kids very basic concepts of rainfall harvesting from a roof and storage in a cistern until the garden needs the water, then let me know and I’ll send you another email with more info. We have a rain gauge out there, a solar-DC battery – diaphragm pump for drip irrigation (with an irrigation scheduler), and a bobbing ruler (measuring water depth in the cistern).
This sand cistern is just being introduced to the school now, after construction took place mostly at the end of July / early August. Hopefully this will be a new outdoor classroom space that will be used by children and adults to learn about water quality, rainfall and rainfall harvest, stormwater/surface runoff to streams, infiltration and groundwater storage, alluvial aquifers, watersheds, water cycling, irrigation, etc. Skyline is also inviting a community garden component into their space, so contact Sharla Lovern 714-2008 or 744-8419 if you’re interested in participating there or volunteering for any garden/water education programming later on --
Wednesday Sept 30:
9:30-10:10 Berman 4th grade class
Vol: Cody Whittenburg, Sharla Lovern
10:10-10:50 Anderson 4th grade class
Vol: Cody Whittenburg, Sharla Lovern
10:50-11:30 Corbett 5th grade class
Vol: Cody Whittenburg, Sharla Lovern
11:30-12:10 Biggs 3rd grade class
Vol: Cody Whittenburg, Sharla Lovern
12:30 Kindergarten
Vol: Cody Whittenburg, Sharla Lovern
1:05 Kindergarten
Vol: Sharla Lovern, Cody Whittenburg (until 1:30)
1:40 Kindergarten
Vol: Cheryl Baker, Sharla Lovern
2:10-2:50 Sturzenbecker 1st grade class
Vol: Cheryl Baker, Sharla Lovern
2:50 Kindergarten
Vol: Cheryl Baker, Sharla Lovern
Thurs Oct. 1:
10:10 Kindergarten
Vol: Sharla Lovern, Cody Whittenburg
10:50-11:30 Harrison 5th grade class
Vol: Cody Whittenburg, Sharla Lovern
11:30-12:10 Kirby 3rd grade class
Vol: Cody Whittenburg, Sharla Lovern
12:50-1:30 Brock 2nd grade class
Vol: Cody Whittenburg, Sharla Lovern
1:30-2:10 Wright 2nd grade class
Vol: Cody Whittenburg, Sharla Lovern
2:10-2:50 Comer 1st grade class
Vol: Cheryl Baker, Sharla Lovern
2:50-3:30 Cox 1st grade class
Vol: Cheryl Baker, Sharla Lovern
Friday Oct. 2:
9:30-10:10 Major 4th grade class
Vol: Cody Whittenburg, Sharla Lovern
10:10-10:50 Ortiz 4th grade class
Vol: Cody Whittenburg, Sharla Lovern
10:50-11:30 Farrington 5th grade class
Vol: Cody Whittenburg, Sharla Lovern
11:30-12:10 Dyson 3rd grade class
Vol: Cody Whittenburg, Sharla Lovern
12:50-1:30 Tauer 2nd grade class
Vol: Cody Whittenburg, Sharla Lovern
1:30-2:10 Mckinzie 2nd grade class
Vol: Cody Whittenburg, Sharla Lovern
2:10-2:50 MacDonald 1st grade class
Vol: Cody Whittenburg, Sharla Lovern
2:50-3:30 Richeson 1st grade class
Vol: Cody Whittenburg, Sharla Lovern
Materials $ for this project came from a OWRB Water Conservation grant that Sustainable Stillwater wrote in conjunction with Skyline ElementaryOSU/Stillwater Board of Educ/City of Stillwater partners, and additional $ for the solar / battery pump came from the League of Women Voters. Donations have also come from Perkins Sand, LLC and Kinder Dozer, Inc. In-kind match has come from Michael Holmes’ Landscape Design class and students, the City of Stillwater’s donation of equipment and labor to build the cistern, and Skyline Elementary & Stillwater Public Schools for land and labor and signage.
The finalization of the cistern rock placement needs to occur at a happy conjunction of good weather (no ponded water or gooey mud) and teachers' schedules. Let us hope this can happen during the month of September!
