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Bench Elementary celebrates Kindness Week   Students at Bench Elementary were determined to spread kindness throughout the community, and did so by making kindness themed bookmarks and tiles as a class project.  As a result of Kindness Week, which runs from Feb. 14 – 20, the School District informed local schools that they could apply for a grant of up to $500 if they wanted to do a ‘Kindness Project’.  “We racked our brains for a long time and had lots of different ideas,” said te...

A Billings poetry program promoting literacy skills for elementary school children through poetry and literature has won a national Library of Congress award.

Lockdown at Bench Elementary in Billings Has Been Lifted According to the Billings Public Schools Facebook page, a "disruption" in a neighborhood near Bench Elementary, put the school into lockdown this morning (Wednesday 2/3). Sometime after 10am this morning, a message was posted by BPS for parents and guardians of Bench Elementary students, announcing the lockdown of the school was taken as a "precautionary measure." Billings Police were in close contact with school officials, as law enforce...

“The demographic has changed,” Waite said. “We’re seeing working people, mainly servers.” The pandemic has been brutal on the hospitality sector. “People come in here crying because they’ve never been in a food bank before and don’t know the process.” Yes, well, we’ve heard a lot of that this year, not just from CMS — it stands for Cobble Hill, Mill Bay and Shawnigan Lake — but from food banks in Sooke, Nanaimo, Duncan, the West Shore, the Saanich Peninsula, the Comox...