Students from the River Valley Technical Center in Springfield have been lending a helping hand with Bellows Falls town beautification.
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Springfield area students lend a hand in Bellows Falls Springfield area students lend a hand A River Valley Technical Center student in the Horticulture and Natural Resource program works on one of the larger trees at the Waypoint Center in Bellows Falls. COURTESY F SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Students from the River Valley Technical Center in Springfield have been lending a helping hand with town beautification. The students pruned trees on Wednesday, May 9 at the south end of the town of Rockingham’s Waypoint Center on Depot Street, Bellows Falls. The Rockingham Tree Committee has worked with the Horticulture and Natural Resources Program at the Center for five years coordinating tree pruning on municipal sites in Rockingham with the center, according to Ellen Howard, co-chair of the Rockingham Tree Committee. John Harmer, the program instructor, has brought his students to conduct pruning in the downtown area, Island Park, other areas of the Waypoint Center, and the north end of Green Street. The tree committee is pleased to work with the students and to provide an opportunity for “hands-on” experience in pruning and proper climbing techniques, according to organizers. Small crab trees were pruned up to allow for easier access along a pathway, and branches overhanging a utility building roof were removed. Students went up into larger trees to remove dead limbs and other branches. advertisement The Rockingham Highway Department assisted with a truck that the students filled with the pruning debris. Committee Co-chairs Polly Thompson and Ellen Howard said the committee is thankful for the work done the students have done, and that “the experience benefits the students and the pruning benefits the community.”
Must be Springfield is already way to beautiful to clean up.....
ReplyDeleteScratching my head over this. Why are we training kids to do jobs that illiterate Mexican laborers do throughout the rest of the country? Rather serious about this. Anyone at the Howard Dean Center ever travel outside Vermont?
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing wrong with getting young people interested in beautifying their hometown. Scratching MY head over your "illiterate Mexican laborers" comment. Do you believe ALL of them lack intelligence? I suppose you would be happier if they were all behind a wall.
DeleteYeah! We need an overlordship class, not people who think it's perfectly normal to get their hands dirty doing manual labor. The Howard Dean Center ought to be teaching those students how to be useless, how to pat immigrant workers on the head, smile at them chummily, say a word or two in their native language and then drop them like a dirty napkin when the lawn is mowed. May I recommend you see the second-most-popular movie in Mexico, one which was made in the US? It's "A Day without A Mexican."
ReplyDeleteWhats wrong with getting your hands dirty? Mine get that way everyday, but soap is cheap.
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