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From: by way of Elizabeth Howard Journey North (wildwood3@citcom.net)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 14:58:01 EDT

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    Dear Monarch watchers,

    What a joy to receive a packet of butterflies symbolic of the friendship of
    those who love monarch butterflies. Our Nature Classes at Jubilee Community
    Church in Asheville, NC received butterflies from the places listed below.
    Thanks to everyone who cared for the butterflies we sent last fall! We
    haven't heard from anyone receiving them yet, but are sure they are in good
    hands.

    MI -Ypsilanti, Michigan: Ardis Renaissance Academy (1)
    WI- Chetek, Wisconsin: Roselawn Elementary (4)
    OH- Greenwich, Ohio: South Central Elem/Jr. High (2)
    NY- East Greenbush, NY: Red Mill Elementary (3)
    MN- Mountain Iron, MN: Merritt Elementary (5)

    The packet of butterflies we received was cared for by a 6th grade student
    named Antonio Miran Dacolin from the Amadonervo School in Ocampo. (We hope
    we read the spelling of the handwriting correctly!) It had lots of cheerful
    confetti in the packet and was a real celebration when the colorful dots
    and stars sprinkled about from the envelopes with the butterflies.

    The orange tagged butterflies were from folks visiting the Migration
    Exhibit while at the overwintering sanctuaries of the butterflies in
    Mexico. Their handwritten names were on orange tags attached to butterflies
    from students from these schools:

    NY- Brooklyn NY: Public School 172
    IN- Trafalgar, IN: Indian Creek Intermediate School
    GA- Snellville, GA: RL Norton Elementary
    MA- Orleans, MA: Lighthouse Charter School
    CT- Orange, CT: Pace Brook (spelling?)
    OH- Toledo, OH: Arlington School
    Ontario, Canada: King George Public School Kirkland Lake, ON
    Ontario, Canada: JR Henderson PS, Kingston, ON

    Our green tagged butterfly, tagged on the Monarch's Migration Pathway was
    made by Nohemi Villegas Hernandez in Saltillo, Coahuilla, Mexico

    We want to thank all the folks at Journey North for sponsoring the Symbolic
    Butterfly Migration again this year. It is well worth all the hard work and
    effort because our class is going to map where all the butterflies came
    from on a wall map and where we think they are heading. We hope to write to
    each student's school during our monarch project this summer. And thank
    you, Journey North, for reminding all of us to do our part to protect the
    summer breeding grounds of the monarchs while our Mexican friends protect
    the overwintering sites. We are raising lots of milkweeds to send home with
    each student to plant in their butterfly gardens.

    Mrs. Ina Warren and the Jubilee Nature Classes (mailing address: In care
    of: 126 Country Road Brevard, NC 28712 )
    wildwood3@citcom.net



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