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Text Box: by Damian Robinson Yang Zhongyu talked with Irene Jackson’s class on 26 January 2006. Irene invited him so that her students could interview him about China and Chinese New Year as part of their Culturefest study of East Asia. Yang ZhongYu is Chinese. He loves spicy foods. He does the cooking in his family because he likes his own cooking better than his wife’s. Zhongyu was raised in Urumqi, which is in Xinjiang Province in the Northwest of China. It is colder in Urumqi than in Maine. Zhongyu went to college in Shanghai. He told us that Shanghai has 20 million people. Shanghai has 19 million more people than the state of Maine. He also lived in Beijing, the capital of China. Zhongyu told us that Chinese New Year is the biggest celebration of the year in China. When Zhongyu was a kid, he went from door-to-door knocking on Chinese New Year. The adults would come out. The children would bow to them, and the adults would give them money.

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Text Box: continued on page 3, column 1 by Devon Goodale Michael Dennett, Americorps volunteer for the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Bangor Area Storm Water Group, came to Stillwater Montessori school on Thursday January 19th. He had a model of a lake, a factory, a farm, and houses. He used the models to show how cars, farms, and factories pollute. He taught us how we pollute water. He used cinnamon for dirt. He sprayed water on the mountains and on the farms, and all the dirt went in the water. It polluted the lake. He wanted us to be aware not to put our farms too close to a lake. Dennett had two bottles of other samples. The black substance was used as car oil. It went into the drains and polluted the lake. He had a bottle of a red continued on page 3, column 2

Text Box: by Tyler Dama The Stillwater Montessori School hosted the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Chess Tournament. It took place in the Holy Family Parish Hall. The tournament was a huge success with a total of 65 chess players playing in three sections, K-6, K-8, K-12, and in the open. The winners in the K-6 section were as follows: 1st place went to Sam Sproule; 2nd place went to our own Conor Millard; 3rd place went to Cameron Jack. Good job K-6! K-8 winners were: 1st , Paul Rudnicki; 2nd place, Drew Fahey, and 3rd place, Avery Cole. Good job K-8! For the place of top 5th grader, there was a tie between Sam Grindal and Hayden Clomei. The K-12 1st place went to Andrew Jacobs, 2nd place to Aaron Guilio, and 3rd to Kurt Eyerer. For top female there was a tie between Sorel Edes (Roo’s older sister) and Martha Witick. Finally, the open 1st place was a three way tie between

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