15 December 2008
Venturing Venturers Plant Plants
Posted by admin under: community service .
There’s a good article at Scoutingnews.org about a massive (to me anyway) service project done by a Venture crew in California.
Over 190 youth from 18 high schools gathered at Tuolumne River Park in Stanislaus County on Nov. 15 for a service project. After four hours of intense work the youth had planted 20,000 grass plugs as well as shrubs and trees.
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The youth, part of a combined program sponsored by the Hispanic Youth Leadership Council (HYLC) and the Venture Scouting division of the Boy Scouts of America, adopted Tuolumne Park 10 years ago. They provide community service in the fall and spring. Projects have ranged from painting and sealing bleachers and painting over graffiti to collecting natives plants and seeds, taking them to a nursery where the youth pot and cultivate the plants, then place them in the park to preserve the natural habitat.
Cool! Finally a BSA project involving the Hispanic community that focuses on the shared concern for the environment. This sounds like a great project from a great program.
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Venturer 20000 Says:
2 October 2010 at 1:25 am.
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