Westwood MS at Junior Achievement Financial Park

 

Last updated 12/23/2016 at 10:41am

John McCallum

Westwood Middle School students got the opportunity to spend several hours on Dec. 9 feeling what is like to be an adult with financial planning responsibilities at Junior Achievement's mobile Financial Park, held at the Spokane Shriner's Event Center in Geiger Heights.

Students were given iPads with information about their assumed adult identities, and then with the help of financial professionals, spent time at 16 interactive kiosks that provided a variety of household information they needed to budget and plan for the future.

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John McCallum, Retired editor

John McCallum is an award-winning journalist who retired from Cheney Free Press after more than 20 years. He received 10 Washington Newspaper Publisher Association awards for journalism and photography, including first place awards for Best Investigative, Best News and back-to-back awards in Best Breaking News categories.

 

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