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Chicken project imparts valuable lessons

Posted on September 3, 2011 |
By Ian Trombulak



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HANNAFORD CAREER CENTER Chickens find a local ending to their short lives. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

MIDDLEBURY — Mary Hogan Elementary School fifth-graders hatched them, Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center agribusiness students raised them and Middlebury College students will eat them.

Without leaving the town of Middlebury, the 203 chickens of the Chick-to-Plate project have been teachers to more than 200 students — by career center Director Lynn Coale’s count — and now, will be dinner to hundreds more.

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