Grade 7 students and seniors have collaborated on a book of Summerland stories.
The students at Summerland Middle School interviewed some of the community’s long-time residents and retold their childhood stories.
Summerland Stories Then and Now was unveiled at a reception last Thursday in the school library.
The book was edited by Brittany Bell, who attended schools in Summerland and recently did her practice teaching in Summerland and Penticton. School district trustee Linda Beaven helped arrange the United Way grant for publishing the book and mentored Bell through the project.
Bell said she is “very pleased how it worked out.”
“These are great stories. I am impressed with how respectful the students were of the seniors and their stories.”
The story tellers are Bruce Crawford, Larry Crawford, Doug MacDonald, Louise Atkinson, Ethel Smith, Preston Mott, Brian Adams and Amy Yamabe.
Their stories were retold by students Autumn Baxter, Jenna Bordeleau, Nicholas Connor, Pavel Gill, Dawson Handfield, Rylan Hayter, George Hollas, Pierre Holmes, Tasia Horton, Bailey Johson, Parker Karnish, Kade Kozak, Liam McMillen-Meyers, Alex Moody, Hope Morf, Leosha Mortensen, Aleah Nesdoly, Navi Raike, Sydney Sandrelli, Alex Sterk, Joshua Stockmann, Kylee Sztupovsky, Teaghan Trewhitt, Adelin Vader, Autumn Welsh and Colton Worts.
They are the students in Richa Thorpe’s Grade 7 class.
Photos in the book were contributed by the Summerland Museum. The cover photo shows Summerland’s first school bus, a horsedrawn wagon.
