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POLL

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Should the Uphill Policy at Big
Mountain be Amended?

Flathead High School
senior Timberli
Barton reads with
Tatyana Kigilyuk,
a fourth-grader at
Elrod Elementary
48% YES 52% NO School, during the
She-Ra book club.
TOTAL VOTES: 105
GREG LINDSTROM
FLATHEAD BEACON
Book Club Promotes Reading
Will the Administration Reach
its Goal of Signing Up 6 Million

for Obamacare by March 31?
with Younger Students

Five years later, girls’ High School, launched the volunteer book oped a love for reading. She continued as
club for girls ive years ago as a way to a good club member, and was very proud
book club at Flathead promote reading as an enjoyable pastime when she inished reading her irst book.”
31% YES 69% NO High School brimming while also providing mentorship opportu- As an extension of the book club, and

TOTAL VOTES: 144
with students
nities for the younger and older students.
to expose the club members to some cur-
“There was a need for this club to pro- rent literature, Nystuen has arranged for
mote reading with high school girls. Many visiting authors to meet with the girls in
By DILLON TABISH of the Beacon
of my students are and have been members the past. The most recent was this past
Is the U.S. Doing Enough About over the years — some of whom were and fall, when Katharyn Wood, previously
the Ukraine Crisis?
Two weeks ago, more than 80 girls at still are voracious readers, but also many Katharyn Heselwood, a former Flathead
Flathead High School poured into the li- who have come to enjoy reading as a new graduate, visited with club members about
brary for their monthly tradition of the hobby,” Nystuen said.
her experience publishing her new e-book,

“She-Ra Girls Book Club.” It’s become Nystuen made connections with teach- “The Dryer Chronicles: Reverse Tumble.”
a popular gathering among high school ers at Elrod and Saint Matthews to estab- Last spring, along with the boys’ book
students and eager elementary kids who lish the monthly meetings between high club, a group of She-Ra members partici-
spend an hour huddled together in pairs or schoolers and third and fourth graders. pated in a “Literacy Day” at Peterson El-
small groups reading and sharing stories.
There is also a similar boys’ book club at ementary School. This day, organized by
“For our children, it’s good for them to Flathead, called the He-Man Club.
Peterson, was devoted to promoting read-
67YES 33NO be able to be around somebody who has a “When I irst started the club we were ing and related activities around the day’s
% %
TOTAL VOTES: 134
positive experience in books,” said Ashley small, maybe 25 members,” said Nystuen. theme of Dr. Seuss.
Fischer, a teacher at Elrod. “It’s good for “I remember one girl, at our irst meeting, “It’s fun being a role model and coming
them to see somebody to look up to aca- said to me, ‘Mrs. Nystuen, I didn’t know and seeing the kids every month,” said Ali
demically.”
we would have to read books.’ She was a Fetveit, a junior at Flathead High.
ONLINE POLL RESULTS ARE NOT SCIENTIFIC
Kim Nystuen, a teacher at Flathead
sweetheart, but had never really devel-
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