On a mission to share the tradition of baking bread, The King Arthur Flour Company of Norwich, Vt., visited the Bradford Elementary School in Bradford, Vt., on Friday, November 20, 2009, to teach over 100 fourth- through sixth-grade students to bake fresh, nutritious bread from scratch through its Life Skills Bread Baking Program. Since that time, students from the 4th-6th grade classes have been baking bread in small groups with Food manager Corinna Magalhaes, Kids Connect Coordinator Jim McCracken and parent volunteers. Each student makes two loaves. One loaf is donated either to the food shelf or the Thursday community dinner at the Methodist Church. The other loaf is brought home for the student and their family to enjoy. Thanks to the generosity of King Arthur, interested students are given the opportunity to bake at home with their family with flour and yeast supplied by the company. As of this week, the students have donated over 50 loaves of bread.
At the annual Bradford Elementary School (BES) end of school picnic, the results of the first "Hunt for Bradford's Biggest and Best Trees" were announced. The contest was sponsored by BES’s Kids Connect program and the Bradford Conservation Commission and ran through the month of May. The largest tree measured was a White Pine from the front yard of the stone Cliff Vet. Clinic and it measured 168 inches in circumference, 90 feet high, and had an average crown spread of 70 ft. It was submitted and measured by Jacob, Otis and Dan Hudnut.
