By Emma Philbrook
The Times
Kids in Waitsburg “Knock Out Boredom”
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July 24, 2014
Left: Makenna Barron and McKenzie Miller concentrate intently as they paint plaster pieces at Waitsburg's Knock Out Boredom summer program.
WAITSBURG - At 8:55 last Tuesday morning, the mercury was already pushing 80. Twenty local students clustered in the cool shade of Waitsburg's First Christian Church, happily chattering as they waited to be signed in to the Waitsburg Resource Center's "Knock Out Boredom" program.
According to Pam Conover, the program's director, that's a small crowd. "We've been having 40 kids come in," she said. Emily Wilson, a recent Prescott High School graduate, comes in on the Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays the program runs to help supervise the youngsters, who range from pre-Kindergarten age to t...
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