JUNE 16th E-NEWSLETTER
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Programs
Guided Nature Walks
Starting June 17th
Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, we are offering guided nature walks for both locals and visitors. You will learn about the natural and cultural history of Leavenworth with scenic views of the river and mountains along the way!
Intro to Beekeeping
Saturday, July 10th, 10:00AM-12:30PM
Join beekeeper Walt Kursave for an introduction to beekeeping class. You will learn about the basics of beekeeping, advantages of honey, its medicinal properties, bee preservation and so much more!
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Scouting for Butterflies
Thursday, July 15th
9:00AM-2:00PM
Be a Lepidopterist for a day! Join David Droppers and trek through Mountain Home Road trails in search of summer butterflies. Learn what makes each species unique and use catch-and-release methods to observe them up close!
Hapazome: A Natural Dye & Printing Technique
Wednesday, July 28th 4:30PM-6:00PM
Join Brittany from the Plant Ally to learn how to transfer color from flowers and leaves onto cloth to create unique and colorful designs! Make your very own hapazome sample and dish towel set or bandana to take home!
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School Year Overview
School's out for summer! This past school year has been a learning curve and WRI staff worked hard to adapt to COVID-19. Programming looked different, but these new versions of learning still allowed over 1,500 students to connect with and experience nature. We offered: virtual field trips, virtual after school programming, at-school Field Days, Field Days at WRI, and small, in-person day camps!
We built lesson plans and activities connected with pre-recorded videos, and also offered real-time virtual field trips to surrounding schools, serving over 600 students. We also made two educational videos for the Wenatchee School District and taught students via Zoom in their After School Program, reaching over 400 students.
As the weather got warmer and more restrictions lifted, we adapted further by offering 1-hour at-school Field Days for kindergarten and grades 1, 2, 3, and 5, serving over 300 students. We offered full-day Field Days to Vale Elementary 3rd graders on our campus, serving 108 students. Additionally, we partnered with Cascade Home Link to offer smaller, outside, in-person programming, teaching about skins, skulls, and a 4-week unit on birds to 48 students. We also taught a collaborative science day camp for Icicle River Middle School 6th graders, serving 71 students.
Thankfully, we were able to offer small, in-person day camps twice a week. Since September, we've held 29 sessions of camp! We introduced the Pay What You Can structure to help lessen financial hardship to attending camp. Last week was the last school year session camp until the fall. It is a bittersweet moment, but we look forward to what summer 2021 holds! We thank you, our community, for sticking with us.
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Place
Call for Volunteers
Interested in doing some office volunteering? We have a big project coming up in the next couple of weeks and we could use your help! We are mailing out 2,500 letters for our Endowment fund campaign where donations are matched four-to-one by the Icicle Fund (up to $250,000). We need some extra hands for envelope stuffing. Email Randee if you are interested in helping!
P.S. More information to come on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
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Thank you to our donors from the last 2 weeks!
Candace and Chuck Egner - Sustaining
Tara deArrieta - Sustaining
Diane Patterson and David Stoller - Sustaining
Heather and Derek Davis
Tracy and Ben Brulotte - Sustaining
Dave and Pat Notter - Sustaining
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