
Volume 10
Service Learning Excursion at Sunshine Resource and Turning Point

On Friday, March 15th, students visited Sunshine Resources and Turning Point in Door County to socialize and build connections with their clients. They did an array of activities with the clients, including board games, knitting & crocheting, darts, pool, and much more. The students and clients alike had a great time building new friendships and learning more about one another.
Hide Tanning Project

Callie, an eighth grader, is doing a hide tanning project. She preserved animal hides. Animal hides are the skins and furs of an animal. To protect hides, you soak them in baking soda and vinegar, then you use a fleshing board and a stretching board. For Callie’s third quarter project, she preserved a fox hide that she trapped. She has been enjoying working with the animals and looking to possible future careers.
Cooking Group

Lillian, a freshman, is doing a project with Berkley and Ms. Ellettas’s class. They are baking desserts, and so far they have made peanut butter balls, snickerdoodle bars, and cookies. They meet on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. They are then giving them out with the Howl Brew Coffee Cart. Lillian has been enjoying making fun desserts with Ms. Ellettas’s class.
Voice Acting
Tommy, a junior, is doing a project about voice acting. They do supplementary voices for online projects, mostly animated ones. Two of the projects they have been part of have been published. Tommy’s favorite part is hearing their voice bring these characters to life. It’s so fulfilling to see a drawing gain a voice and personality. Tommy is currently waiting on their script for their newest part. They joined a new cast and the script is currently being written.
Upcoming Events
- After School Movie @ the Algoma Public Library Apr 5, 2024
- Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra @ the Algoma Performing Arts Center Apr 5, 2024 10:00 AM
- First Friday Art in Downtown Algoma Apr 5, 2024 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Student Spot
This volume’s featured student is… Bree Robertson

Bree is a sophomore in AVA this year. This semester, she is spending some time at the Pack of Pups Childcare to build upon the research she conducted in the first semester about literacy in early childhood. She is also learning more about early childhood development this quarter by looking into social and emotional development in the first few years of life. We are excited to see where this interest leads Bree in the future!
World News
Alicudi: Italian island offers goats up for adoption
Written by: BBC on Thursday, April 4th, 2024
The local mayor of a remote Italian island overrun with wild goats is offering to give them away.
The idea came to Riccardo Gullo after a census estimated their population to be six times the human population of 100.
Experts at navigating the steep landscape of Alicudi, in the Aeolian archipelago north of Sicily, the goats have become a problem as they damage gardens and allotments.
Applications to “adopt a goat” must be received by 10 April.
Wild goats have lived in Alicudi for years, and previously spent most of their time on the volcanic island’s rugged mountains and cliffs.
But as their population has grown, they have started to venture down into residential areas where, as well as ruining gardens, they have reportedly also knocked down parts of walls, and even entered people’s homes.
Known as browsers – animals that eat away at leaves and fruits growing at head-height – goats are prone to destroying vegetation if left unattended.
Mr Gullo said that people have already been inquiring about taking the goats.
“[There is] a farmer on Vulcano island who would like to take several goats as, among other things, he produces a ricotta cheese which is much appreciated,” he told the Guardian.
Vulcano – along with Alicudi – is one of the seven islands that make up the Aeolian archipelago. The group of islands is a Unesco world heritage site.