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Wednesday Feb 23 2011
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Ever turned a discarded item into something useful?

By: Marci Seither, Colfax Record Correspondent
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Marci Seither/Colfax Record
?I made a frame that looked like a house with my picture in the windows made out of a cereal box.? Emilie McCall, 12 Colfax
Marci Seither/Colfax Record
?I made a tote bag out of plastic grocery bags I melted together.? Grace Boal, 15 Meadow Vista
Marci Seither/Colfax Record
?I turned a Bambi bed sheet into a skirt and made compost bins out of used wood pallets.? Koorisa Lowry Grass Valley
Marci Seither/Colfax Record
?I made a fort out of some pieces of wood and old sticks.? Conner Hollingsworth, 13 Colfax
Marci Seither/Colfax Record
?My daughter was in dance for years. I took all the shirts from each show and made a quilt out of them.? Moe Hulbert, Foresthill
Marci Seither/Colfax Record
?I made my dad a panorama out of some old cabinet parts.? Devon Reed, 15 Colfax
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