PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Students from the Wintergreen Arts Center’s after-school program helped install a fence project they’ve been working on for the Presque Isle Community Garden during the Community Garden’s second annual Spring Fling Saturday, June 10. The Community Garden is located at 37 Birch Street.
Students worked to paint individual fence slats and were finally ready to put them all together Saturday.
“Christa Galipeau, the Community Garden’s coordinator, approached us with their fence project last winter,” said Dottie Hutchins, Wintergreen’s executive director. “We immediately loved the idea and saw it as a creative way for our students to experience the feeling of giving back to their community.”
The Community Garden project is sponsored and supported by the Presque Isle Housing Authority, 4-H Foundation, Maine Master Gardener Development Board, Natural Resources Council of Maine, Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteers, The Aroostook Medical Center and the Aroostook District Coordinating Council for Public Health.
“We welcome everyone involved with this project,” said Jennifer Trombley, executive director for the Presque Isle Housing Authority. “We are happy to host the Community Garden in our neighborhood.”
Other Spring Fling activities included lending a hand with improvement projects, starting a garden plot and a barbecue. For more information, call the Presque Isle Community Garden at (207) 764-0998.
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- Students at the Wintergreen Arts Center participated in the Presque Isle Community Garden’s Spring Fling on June 10 and helped install a new garden fence with slats they had painted. From left are Keyton Woods, Sabine Wells-Puckett, Dylan Kelley, Jack Donovan, Maude Drew, Kyle Connell, Kara Addington (teacher), Lexus Botting, Diane Botting, Shaye McHatten (assistant teacher), Kayden Woods, Rylan Sturtevant and Jenna Homes. Missing from photo are Zakaria Cornelison, Isabelle Anthony and Kaleigh Phillips. (Contributed)
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- Wintergreen Arts Center students created colorful fence slats for the Presque Isle Community Garden on Birch Street, and gathered Saturday, June 10, to help install the completed fence. From left are Mackenzie McLaughlin, Mia Brewer, Mark Arsenault, Madelyn Waugh, Delilah Chasse, Kara Addington (teacher), Paige Dickinson, Kapri Griffeth, Shaye McHatten (assistant teacher), Lariah Langley, Georgia Theriault, Shojoon Naseri, Bailee McIntyre, Brooklyn McIntyre and Carrissa Hughes. (Contributed)
