Shiloh Hills Elementary bus helpers

When the 560 students at Shiloh Hills Elementary recently relocated a few miles away to the former Northwood Middle School, it created a problem. Annabelle Howes is part of the solution. Annabelle is one of about 30 “bus helpers” at the Mead district grade school.

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Tue., April 24, 2018

Fifth-grader Annabelle Howes, second from left, a bus helper, makes sure that the last kindergartener makes it on to her bus before the older kids get on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at Camp Shiloh, the temporary home of Shiloh Hills Elementary in the Mead School District. The bus helper program enlists upper class members to help get kids on the bus because the relocated school how puts most students on the bus instead of them walking home.

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Fifth-grader Annabelle Howes, left, a Bus Helper, talks with kindergarteners as they wait for the bus outside Camp Shiloh, the recently relocated Shiloh Hills Elementary, Tuesday, April 24, 2018. The school, relocated while the building is remodeled, now puts most of the students on a bus instead of the kids walking home. The Bus Helpers program was organized to help the process go smoothly.

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Bus Helper Annabelle Howes, a fifth-grader, keeps the kindergarteners in line as they are shepherded to the bus pickup area Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at Camp Shiloh, the name for the recently relocated Shiloh Hills Elementary School in the Mead District. When the school relocated to an empty middle school while their old school was being remodeled, most o fthe kids had to go on a bus instead of walking or being picked up. The Bus Helpers guide the younger kids to their buses.

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Bus Helper Annabelle Howes watches as kindergarteners get on her bus Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at Camp Shiloh, the temporarily relocated Shiloh Hills Elementary in the Mead District, where Bus Helpers, in orange vests and name tags, guide younger kids to their buses, many of which never road at the old school because it was located in a dense neighborhood.

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