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For release King's Receives Grants to Support Community Garden July 29, 2010 - King’s College recently received two grants totaling more than $7,000 to support its participation in the Wilkes-Barre City Community Garden and related Wilkes-Barre Green Angel Youth Project which operates under the title, “McGlynn Garden Club”. A grant of more than $6,500 will support educational efforts with more than 70 students from the McGlynn Learning Center and Boulevard Town Homes on environmental topics. A smaller grant from the Luzerne Foundation will fund supplies for the garden, located on Wilkes-Barre Boulevard adjacent to the South Street Bridge. The Wilkes-Barre Community Garden functions as an educational tool for children living in the Town Homes or participating in the Commission on Economic Opportunity’s (CEO) Kid’s Café program and local senior citizens who care for individual beds. The produce that the garden yields helps to teach children proper nutrition habits and is a source of food for those who care for the garden. A group of volunteers, including students from Heights and Dan Flood Elementary Schools, King’s College, and Wilkes University, recently built pollinator beds at the Community Garden. The pollinator beds will help attract insects to the garden that will increase crop yields and serve as a teaching tool for the McGlynn Garden Club and CEO’s Kid’s Café garden program.
Shown seated, from left, is Xavior Weber; Kaylee Moore; Marianne Sodoski, King’s; and Olivia and Madea Stortz. Pictured standing, from left, is Paul Moran, Jill Yurko, Janet Ruddy, and Wayne Buchanan, all of King’s; Joyce Eddy; Michael Foster; Kristen Mitchell, AmeriCorps VISTA worker, Misericordia; Charity Eddy; Edili Lopez, AmeriCorps VISTA worker, King’s; Krista Montigney; Nicole Cooper, AmeriCorps VISTA worker, King’s, and program developer at the Community Garden; Josh Deininger; Bil Corcoran, King’s; Olivia Seabrook; Wesley Kinter, AmeriCorps VISTA worker, Wilkes; and Jacqueline Bauza, King’s
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