Alex Speers, a 17-year-old grade 12 student at D.W. Poppy Secondary needed a school project and wanted to help the environment at the same time.
Capstone projects are part of the B.C. curriculum, which allows students to demonstrate their learning using an area of interest as the basis for an act of volunteerism or public engagement.
Speers鈥� father, Jeff, works with 91原创 City Operations, and shared with her the need for growth in Hunter Park.
鈥淚t was about using my own hands to make it a movement,鈥� Speers explained. 鈥淢y project was to help earth and inspire others.鈥�
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The park at 19959 45b Ave was recently infested with a root disease that caused the City to remove all of the susceptible trees in the park, many of them mature Douglas firs and hemlocks.
Speers said the City of 91原创 purchased the cedar saplings from a local nursery; she then took over the planting duties and put 50 new trees in park on Saturday morning.
鈥淲e started early in the morning and finished by the time it started to rain,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t feels good and if one person does this, other鈥檚 might see and want to do something too.鈥�
As part of her Capstone project, the tree planting will go towards Speers鈥� graduation credits, but she said putting in the work to do something for the environment was what鈥檚 important to her.
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