Okay, it’s official. I am a new grandfather — well, if you can count a rainbow trout as a grandchild.
I got word yesterday that at least three of the 35 rainbow trout eggs we carefully placed in an aquarium in a 3rd grade classroom at White Mountain Elementary School in Ruidoso have hatched. The kids have named the newest hatchling “Alvin.”
If you’ll recall, I’m helping coordinate a Trout Unlimited “Trout in the Classroom” project at White Mountain Elementary in Ruidoso. Students will help raise Alvin and other trout to maturity in the classroom aquarium, then release them into a local lake or stream. We got the trout eggs almost two weeks ago in what was like a Pony Express delivery during a snow storm. It all worked out, and it’s all going well at this point.
But special thanks to the third graders who helped Alvin get to this point, and to the wonderful team of teachers, headed by Michelle Thurston and Rachel Lutterman, to make this all happen.
Stay tuned for more “Alvin and Friends” updates.
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It so cool you are doing this..,
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