{"id":22372,"date":"2025-05-14T01:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T07:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=22372"},"modified":"2025-05-13T18:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T00:56:48","slug":"wrms-sixth-graders-to-speak-at-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/wrms-sixth-graders-to-speak-at-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"WRMS Sixth Graders to Speak at City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>To Protect Bears and People<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By WRMS<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nSixth-grade students from Wood River Middle School are stepping up to protect their community and local wildlife. On Monday, May 12, students will attend the Hailey City Council meeting to ask leaders to take action by purchasing bear-proof trash containers for public areas.<br \/>\n\u201cWe care about the safety of both bears and people,\u201d said Mahayla Shipp-Stephenson, a sixth-grader at WRMS. \u201cWhen garbage cans are left out too early, or unsecured, bears come into neighborhoods, which can be dangerous for everyone.\u201d<br \/>\nThe students have been researching the issue and are concerned that unsecured garbage attracts bears into towns, which can lead to harmful interactions. They believe that bear-proof containers are a smart solution to reduce these risks.<br \/>\nThe class will present their findings and ideas during the public comment portion of the meeting, held at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, May 12, 2025 at Hailey City Hall.<br \/>\n\u201cWe hope the city will listen and help us make a positive change,\u201d said Kendall Monjaras-Marrujo.<br \/>\nFor more information, please contact Jennifer Peterson at jpeterson@blaineschools.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Protect Bears and People By WRMS Sixth-grade students from Wood River Middle School are stepping up to protect their community and local wildlife. On Monday, May 12, students will attend the Hailey City Council meeting to ask leaders to take action by purchasing bear-proof trash containers for public areas. \u201cWe care about the safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,76,1265,18,32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"category-emergency-services","9":"category-legal","10":"category-news","11":"category-schools"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22373,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22372\/revisions\/22373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}