Arbor Day Nature Fest on April 3, 2009.

Hands on nature based learning. By partnering with natural resource management experts, the City of Pflugerville, and the Pflugerville Independent School District we believe we can form a sustainable tradition to enhance student’s understanding, appreciation, and enthusiasm for nature and science.

Keep Pflugerville Beautiful
Discover Green
Lower Colorado River Authority
Texas Forest Service
and more

Join us to get a jump on Environmental Education Week. Learn about city of Pflugerville Drop by Drop low water plant rebate. Youth from Pflugerville will share with residents what this means and how easy it is.

Discover Green - Party with a Purpose

4H, Boyscouts, Girl Scouts and Youth who are involved with Pflugerville First United Methodist Church and other youth who are passionate about environmental issues will get involved.

Join the Eco-inspiration coaches in one of the following projects:

Native Landscape - Demonstration Garden
Build compost bin
Schoolyard habitat
Creek Restoration

Global Youth Service Day - Semester of Service

Sponsored by Discover Green
Celebrate March Birthdays
Discover Green Party with a Purpose

March 11, 2009 – Wednesday
11:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Gilleland Park – Pavilion
700 Railroad Ave, Pflugerville
http://www.cityofpflugerville.com/index.asp?nid=225
11:00 – lunch, cake, party fun
12:00 – start creek restoration – planting trees, invasive plant removal and creek clean up
Other projects – making newspaper pots for seedlings
Bring an old t-shirt to make a reusable tote bag

Two new community gardens will be planted on Saturday April 25th. One in-ground garden will be planted at Turner Lake Circle - beside the Community Food Pantry and three raised beds will be planted at Turner Lake Recreation Center.

This day of planting will help generate fresh fruits and vegetables of local food banks, Rainbow Community Ministries (homeless program) and senior citizens. Youth from Oxford College of Emory Univeristy, Perimiter College, all three high schools, Department of Juvenile Justice, and a wide variety of other youth groups will be participating in the planting.

Students at Incarnate Word Academy (IWA) in Parma Heights, Ohio are working on a global service project to collect, sort, catalog and label 5,000+ books to create a library for 2 schools in the Obia-Zeu village of northern Uganda. IWA students are also providing books locally to children at the Parma Heights Food Pantry. Students have been performing service beginning Martin Luther King Day weekend, 2009, on weekends, on days off school, and on President's Day.

The Massachusetts Promise Fellowship is a statewide, 30 member AmeriCorps program housed at at the Center of Community Service at Northeastern University. Over the past 10 years, the Fellowship has provided Massachusetts with over 327,000 hours of service in over 25 communities. In honor of our 10 year anniversary, we are coordinating our first annual statewide day of service - Opportunity to Serve.

The Hometown Lions Club is now getting involved with the activities planned for Hometown Elementary's Earth Day and Global Youth Service Day activities. The Hometown Lions Club has always been an active participant in all of Hometown Elementary's Earth Day activities in the years past with helping to plant trees and organizing local Easter Egg Hunts. This year is no different with the Hometown Lions Club again volunteering to partner with the community and parent volunteers to help make this years Earth Day activities a memorable and lasting event. THANK YOU HOMETOWN LIONS CLUB!!!

On Saturday April 18th from 8:00am to 1:00pm, youth participants will attend the Healthy Kids Day event at the Ventura Family YMCA to share with the community their healthy cookbooks and family exercise activities.

The Youth Empowerment Summit is a career and life mentoring program developed by the United Way’s Young Leaders Society as a way to invest in tomorrow's young leaders—today!

The summit will provide workshops and panel discussions aimed at sharing career and life experiences, best practices and aims to help influence the successful transition of youth into tomorrow's workforce. By participating, students also receive an opportunity to be awarded numerous scholarships ranging between $250 to $1,000 to help further their educational advancement.

The Community Problem Solvers from Walnut Grove and Frank Seale Middle Schools will be putting the finishing touches on Hawkins Spring Park Playground on Saturday, April 25, 2009!

The wood fiber chips will be installed and the playground will be prepared for it's re-opening! We are inviting the entire community of North Texas to come out with your rake and help prepare this playground for the kids of Midlothian! We will have food, music, fun and lots of fellowship to welcome this new modification to the City of Midlothian, Texas.

The Kiowa County Tree Arboreturm (open to the public) will be located at the Kiowa County Fairgrounds (northwest corner of Greensburg, KS).

Students from Takoma Park Elementary School, Montgomery Blair High School and Montgomery College Takoma Park / Silver Spring have been working in small groups to write and illustrate children's stories.

When completed, art and design students at Montgomery College will format and prepare these stories for publication. Stories will be printed in a book and given in play packages, which will include the book, a blank book and crayons, to pediatric patients in a nearby hospital.

This event will consist of providing landscaping for 125 apartment units of the low income housing in the Lawrenceville Georgia Housing area.

Youth are asking for support from Home Depot for various items as well as a basic landscaping class. Once youth have completed this 1 day class, our youth team will hold a training class for community volunteers who have signed up to participate in this project. This class will demonstrate how to landscape a simple flower bed, and then go into how to care for the flowers.

PROJECT WILL CONSIST OF:
-Digging holes for the flowers

Each month, students and volunteers will participate in a clean-up around and throughout the school. We will also work on our Reading Garden, which is in process. Our Reading Garden will consists of a covered area (to block out the sun and rain), flowers, painted concrete and new benches). After each event is completed, students and volunteers will participate in group discussions followed with a light lunch and snacks. Students will also be provided with journals to take notes and discuss their day of service and the importance of it.

Students and volunteers will participate in a variety of events on April 24, and April 27th-30th.

On April 24, 2009 some students and volunteers will start Earth Week off by collecting litter around and throughout the school, and some will water flowers and keep our development of our new Reading Garden clean. After the clean-up, students and volunteers will come together and discuss the importance of recycling, helping others, and keeping our school and community clean. The discussion will follow a mini-celebration with food, snacks, and awards for our visiting volunteers.

The Lucky Leprechuans 4-H club is planning a recycling fair at Hillcrest Elementary on April 24, 2009. Each member is designing a booth at the fair to focus on diffent aspects of recycling and living green. They are purchasing recycling bins to hand out to the participants who attend the fair.

ESL tutors and other volunteers will gather students and community members to celebrate a semester's worth of activities.

STRIPES tutors and tutees will come together for a day of work planned by the students.

Service For Peace has guided a select group of 7 middle school students in the planting and development of an urban organic garden in the backyard of their school, the Yvonne Learning Center.

The Morgan Park 4-H Green Team, the Grant Community School Collaborative after-school program, and staff from Hartley Nature Center in Duluth will be joining together to educate and activate 4-H Green Team members and Grant Elementary School students in environmental issues such as local forest diversity and invasive species. The volunteer base for this project will include elementary and middle school age students, as well as approximately 20 college students from around Duluth.

In an effort to promote a love of reading and early childhood literacy, our second-grade class will be forming a partnership with our new local hospital. We will be asking hospital workers to visit our school to share how important literacy is in their lives. We will also be assembling Welcome Baby packets filled with information on early literacy, book lists, community services, and a book or two for mother to share with her new baby. We will travel to the hospital to deliver the packets on GYSD! Go READING!

On May 9th a leadership retreat is scheduled to YMCA Camp Ihduhapi. The full day trip will leave the school by 9:45 am. The trip will return about 8 in the evening. The day will begin with students participating in several service projects for the camp (building planters, cleaning boats, spreading woodchips and clearing the trails.) We expect that the experience of teamwork and the successful completion of the task will enhance the self confidence and self esteem of the at risk population of students that are included in this project. These service projects should take about 3.5 hours.

On Wednesday, February 4, 2009, Helping 100, a Northfield Community School service-learning club that focuses on ending homelessness and hunger, and Northfield’s Community of Caring committee held part 1 of their iCare Service-Learning Conference on Hunger and Homelessness for the entire 7th grade of Northfield Community School. The conference ran from 8:30am-2:30pm in the Middle School. The conference was partially funded through a State Farm/YSA grant.

College Forward’s Student Leadership Council at Del Valle High School will devise, plan, and implement the first ever outdoor classroom at Baty Elementary School. The Student Leadership Council will engage other student volunteers by advertising for the project and highlighting the importance of science education within elementary schools. The project will affect over 600 students and staff at Baty Elementary School, and will significantly improve science education.

Throughout the semester Purdue University North Central students enrolled in BIOL 306 “Biology of Medical Ethics” participate in a service learning component which helps them to further their understanding of the moral-ethical-biological aspects of modern medicine. Students will be working with one of several medical sites which help to meet the needs of the local communities surrounding PNC. These local community partners are: St. Anthony Memorial Hospital, LaPorte Hospital, Hilltop Community Health Clinic, LifeCare Nursing Home and Harbor Light Hospice.

All of our students at Partnership Academy will complete year-long service projects in thematic areas. We will share the results of our projects (world and community hunger, environmental activism, and peace and justice) through school-wide assemblies.

Students, parents and the community at-large will be celebrating the theme of "EARTH DAY IS EVERY DAY" at Hometown Elementary School in celebration of Global Youth Service Day 2009 and Earth Day. Celebration and kick-off activities include clearing and cleaning any trash and debris off of the area surrounding the school. Students, parents, the Parent/Teacher Organization and community members will all be participating in the activities. Plans are being made to plant flowers and trees to beautify the school area for all of the community and the school to enjoy.

On Tuesday, February 17, 2009, Chiku Awali Rites of Passage for Young Men Class of 2009, their peer advisors and program leaders will help out a soup kitchen run by the Metropolitan Church in Newark, New Jersey at the Willing Heart Center. This is the second occasion that the young men have volunteered their time and energy to help stamp out hunger in America. On January 19, 2009 for Dr. Martin Luther King Day of Service the young men helped the Muslim Women's Institute for Research and Development prepare the Community food Pantry at Highbridge move to its new location.

Six Deaf students from the California School for the Deaf, Riverside will be doing basic home repairs/improvements to low income Deaf senior citizen homes in Riverside, CA. Two teachers will be working with the students to facilitate activities.