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Spring
Service Day
Eighth graders from Northridge Middle School returned to Krider Park
recently to tackle some spring cleanup work as part of the school’s
Civics in Action program. Students spent a few hours one Saturday
morning getting the park spiffed up for spring and summer.
An 8th grade Northridge
Middle School student,
Amelia Dean, weeds in
Krider Garden as part of
her class’ volunteer work
helping to spring clean
Krider Garden of weeds
on Saturday, April 23.
Odessa Wieland hauls a bucket of rocks
removed from the slope near the new
waterfall feature where flowers and other
plants are to be planted this spring.
Grace Kniesly (left) and
Lori Miller (right), 8th
grade students from
Northridge Middle
School, team up to fill a
wheelbarrow with mulch
which they will spread
in Krider Garden flower
beds. The 8th graders
have made Krider Garden
spring cleanup an annual
service event which they
have done for many years
now.
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IF YOU CAN’T BEAT IT, EAT IT! 8th grade Northridge Middle School
volunteers Alexandra Wiesman (left) and Miasabet Figueroa-Martinez
(right) react to being told that dandelions – both the flower and the
plant itself – can be eaten.
Above: Northridge Middle School
8th grade student Grace Kniesly
fills a wheelbarrow with composted
new soil to add to the flower beds in
Krider Garden.
Left: Removing stones from a ridge
in preparation for planting this slope
with flowers and other plants to
hold the soil are 8th graders from
Northridge (l/r) Abbey Zook, Park
Superintendent Tom Enright’s two
sons Parker and Martelle Enright,
Odessa Wieland and Anneka
Radelich and Sean Gilley.
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