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“ e area continued to grow and eventually the Conifer School was over owing. e Pleasant Park School, which had been previously closed, was reopened to house grades four through six with grades one through three remaining at the Conifer School.

“In 1955, the new West Je erson Elementary School was opened. Within a year or two, the Conifer School was reopened as an over ow classroom. With the addition of temporary buildings and the dedication of the new West Je erson Junior High in 1974, West Je Elementary was nally able to provide classrooms for all of its students, grades animated by Rotary members. It also uses before and after photos to help community members understand how to create defensible space in a real-world context. Lessons within the app focus on defensible space

K-6.

“In the late 1960s, the school district o ered the Je erson County Parent and Preschool Program. It was a tuition-based program for 3- to 5-year-old children and with modi cations to the building to accommodate the youngest students, the program found a perfect home at Conifer School, which was then renamed the Little White Schoolhouse.

“ e Je erson County School District donated the Little White Schoolhouse buildings and the one acre of land back to the community through the Conifer Historical Society and Museum in October of 2012. In 2014 the Little White Schoolhouse in Conifer was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.” and home hardening, as well as emergency preparedness, to help families take early action to reduce the destruction caused in the event of a wild re.

“We hope it’s a tool that can be used by residents, by educators, by rst responders,” Latham said. “By anybody who’s trying to reach people to help them know what they can do to make a di erence.” e app has more than 1,500 downloads only a few weeks after its release, and Evergreen Rotary is working to make sure it will continue to be downloaded by those interested in defending their homes and families from wild res.

Latham designed the app with Laurie Romberg, Lucy Bauer and Amy Deuble, using their combined expertise to create a cohesive product that is simple to navigate.

“It was hundreds and hundreds of hours of work to pull the pieces together,” she said.

“ ere’s such a void, and it’s information people really need, and hopefully (the app) is interesting, and it provides them with layers of information in a digestible fashion,” Latham said.