By Dena Wood
The Times
'Working on Working'
Waitsburg Life Skills Students provide services to district and community
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Courtesy of Patty Hazelwood
Coe Richards vacuums and mops the co-op preschool room each day.
WAITSBURG -- Early this school year, Waitsburg High School special education teacher Patty Hazelwood happened upon a small dresser desperately in need of refinishing. It occurred to her that such a project would be ideal for her life skills students: Coe Richards, Austin Baker and Rachel Gradwohl. The trio successfully transformed the eyesore into a work of beauty, learning new skills and experiencing the satisfaction of a job well done along the way.
Hazelwood has over twenty years experience working in special education and spent ten years working in British Columbia before teaching in...
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