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Creativity, talent transform cast-off chair into beautiful addition for Early Childhood Ed classroom
 Thanks to the ingenuity and efforts of Mr. Roberts' Building Maintenance students Michael Simmons and Billy Farrell (pictured: Simmons at right, Farrell at left), an old, broken chair found along the roadside by teaching assistant Chris Foster has a new life in Ms. Jennings' Early Childhood Education classroom. The formerly cast-off chair with a torn cane seat is now a sturdy, stained and refinished, green-cushioned, ladder-back rocker that will be used for reading to youngsters and for practicing lessons. "I saw the chair as an excellent project," said Mr. Foster, "and Mike decided we should donate it after it was restored." Simmons noted, "We had to take the chair apart gently, then sand it and fabricate new pegs before we could put it back together, make a new seat for it and stain it." Farrell added, "I had learned how to re-cane chair seats, but we decided to make a cushioned seat instead." Simmons worked with Ms. Hicks' Global Fashion Studies class to obtain fabric for the cushion. "I know the chair is sturdy, because we both tested it and it held our weight fine," Simmons said. Simmons, Farrell and Foster presented the chair to Ms. Jennings' class on February 25, explaining their project and receiving a hardy round of applause from the Early Childhood Education students. 

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