When is a potato more than just a potato?

According to Jennie Gordon, First Lady of Wyoming, it’s when it represents dignity for one of the 86,000 Wyoming residents who struggle with food insecurity.

As students are in their classes in the Saratoga Elementary School, an angel is secretly at work.

Thursday morning, paraprofessional Valerie Larscheid had 21 paper bags lined up on a table. She was filling them with single serving items to provide breakfast and lunch for the students for the three-day weekend as there was no school on Friday.

During lunch, she puts the bags in the students’ backpacks.

The Encampment K-12 3rd grade class paid a visit to the Saratoga Sun on October 16 to learn about the newspaper and its history.

It has been said art is in the eye of the beholder. Nowhere was this more evident than during the recent visit by the University of Wyoming’s Ann Simpson Artmobile (Artmobile) to Saratoga.

Saratoga Art Teacher Noel Shepard’s elementary art classes were introduced to the Artmobile Oct. 23 at the Platte Valley Community Center.

<em>*Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series on Platte Valley school alumni returning as teachers*</em>

The author Thomas Wolfe once wrote, “You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood.”

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Schools, fans turns out for Saratoga Middle High School homecoming parade</strong></p>