http://www.sherwoodgazette.com/features/index.php Portland and surrounding area community news and information http://www.sherwoodgazette.com/features/story.php?story_id=132762189615833500 2012-01-26 15:51:36 http://www.sherwoodgazette.com/features/story.php?story_id=132762189615833500 en-us Students at St. Francis School got to literally jump into a giant color wheel that was spread out on the floor of the Parish Hall on Jan. 13. For those who have forgotten their color wheels, it consists of the primary colors (red, yellow and blue) which lie opposite each other, plus secondary ... http://www.sherwoodgazette.com/features/story.php?story_id=132502985122581600 2011-12-27 00:00:00 http://www.sherwoodgazette.com/features/story.php?story_id=132502985122581600 en-us People usually are generous about giving to a good cause because it makes them feel good, and it is the right thing to do — but it never hurts to have an added incentive like being able to throw a pie in the principal’s face and giving a teacher a colorful Mohawk. That was the ... http://www.sherwoodgazette.com/features/story.php?story_id=132503027691063500 2011-12-27 15:57:56 http://www.sherwoodgazette.com/features/story.php?story_id=132503027691063500 en-us The expression “NaNoWriMo” was heard frequently among students at Sherwood Charter School throughout the month of November as more than a dozen of them participated in National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo for short. The annual Internet-based creative writing project challenges ... http://www.sherwoodgazette.com/features/story.php?story_id=132502887327235900 2011-12-27 15:34:33 http://www.sherwoodgazette.com/features/story.php?story_id=132502887327235900 en-us A long-time Providence Medical Group employee helped make Thanksgiving Day a little brighter for Union Gospel Mission residents, supplying many of them with badly needed gloves. Gina Jackson, who works at the Providence clinic in Sherwood, began the glove drive a couple of weeks before the ...