{"id":1499,"date":"2017-08-17T15:17:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T15:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2017-08-17T15:17:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T15:17:51","slug":"wintergreen-students-help-shelter-pets-find-their-forever-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wintergreen-students-help-shelter-pets-find-their-forever-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wintergreen students help shelter pets find their forever homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pet<\/a>Presque Isle, Maine<\/strong>\u2014During the month of July, students at the Wintergreen Arts Center painted portraits of local rescue animals to help raise awareness of the many adoptable dogs and cats living in area shelters.\u00a0 The pet portraits are now on display at Presque Isle locations including Second Chances Thrifts and Boutique, HardScrabble Solutions, Caf\u00e9 Allegro, Katahdin Trust Company, Portland Glass, and Wintergreen.\u00a0 A description of the pet, along with the name of the shelter where it can be found, accompanies each pet portrait.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach student chose their favorite pet from a selection of photos we took of animals at the Central Aroostook Humane Society in Presque Isle and the Halfway Home Pet Rescue in Caribou,\u201d said Kara Addington, Wintergreen art teacher.\u00a0 \u201cIt was a project where the kids felt they were making an impact.\u00a0 We also got to see which students were dog fans versus cat fans.\u00a0 One student even painted a rabbit.\u00a0 It was fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Twenty-one students ranging in age from grade one through nine participated in the pet portraits project.\u00a0 Two students from the University of Maine at Presque Isle\u2019s Upward Bound program also took part in the class.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very satisfying to work on projects that directly benefit our community,\u201d said Kara, who also recently instructed Wintergreen\u2019s Presque Isle Community Garden fence painting project.\u00a0 \u201cI am looking forward to future opportunities where our students can make a difference in their home towns.\u201d<\/p>\n

PHOTO:\u00a0 (Left to Right) Arianna Rigby, Sam Schnieder, Alia Skaleski, Lariah Langley, Abigail Bugbee, Kara Addington (teacher), Ethan Willard, Mia Brewer, Kaleigh Phillips, Mackenzie McLaughlin, Macey Barker (assistant teacher), Ian Willard, and Piper Galipeau<\/p>\n

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Presque Isle, Maine\u2014During the month of July, students at the Wintergreen Arts Center painted portraits of local rescue animals to help raise awareness of the many adoptable dogs and cats living in area shelters.\u00a0 The pet portraits are now on display at Presque Isle locations including Second Chances Thrifts and Boutique, HardScrabble Solutions, Caf\u00e9 Allegro, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Pet-Portraits.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGGri-ob","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}