Lake Forest Elementary Echoes Pioneer Day in Style
Lake Forest Elementary hosted its seventeenth annual Pioneer Day with 220 third and fourth graders on the blacktop reenacting 19th century life. Students wore period clothes, cooked, quilted, spun yarn, and visited a general store while panning for gold and drilling holes. A Coloma blacksmith and an apothecary guided demonstrations. activities included singing, square dancing, a hayride, and a pioneer meal of chicken, corn on the cob, ice cream. Principal Hylton championed the event, aiming to create lasting memory making days.