F.E. Miley Elementary School's kindergarten and 1st grade class were treated to an educational ride on the commuter train on Thursday, April 18. The outing was part of a longer unit on transportation, which the students had been covering in class. Twenty-seven students and six chaperones from Big Sandy boarded the Amtrak commuter train in Shelby for their journey to the station in Havre.
Mrs. Weaver, who teaches the kindergarten class, explained that the trip itself was the brainchild of Mrs. Leader, who "...approached me about taking a train trip with the first graders as part of their curric...