Students dig planting job - Woman donates one bulb for every student, teacher at Chandler

Katerine Burnside's dark brown eyes studied the flower bedseriously before she pressed her second-grade fingers far enoughintothe compost that the bulb she was planting would be guaranteed totake root and bloom next spring.

Burnside was one of 150 children and teachers at ChandlerElementary who weathered 42 degree temperatures Friday to plantWilliam daffodils, Dutch irises, blue grape hyacinths, Red Glorytulips and golden Dixie tulips around their simple school sign.

Donated by Charleston resident Helene Rotkin, 70, the bulbs - onefor every student and teacher - were intended to help the schoolbeautify its outside appearance, a goal Principal Barry Bowe …