Grant helps West Side School improve its music instruction

(Left to right): Caiden Bruns (with hisback to camera), Matthew Bockman and Tyler Novak.

The West Side Early Childhood Center in Decorah has a new outdoor tmarimba--thanks to a $2,000 grant from he McElroy Excellence in Education Enrichment Grant program.

The marimba has been installed in the school's natural playground, giving preschool students have a new way to explore creating music.