Caldwell, Idaho Destination Education, 16 Sep 2023

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From YouTube: Destination Education: 9/16/23

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In this week's #DestinationEducation Episode, we highlight the Community Garden at Sacajawea Elementary and honor a very special staff member.

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Hello and welcome back to another destination education episode where the students and staff are the stars and for this week's episode, I'm here at the Sacajawea community garden, but before we get into the weeds, we'd like to recognize and honor a very special staff member at Canyon, Springs High School this week was the 22nd anniversary of the 911 terrorist attacks.

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We honored our very own Mr Brian Bartley for his service during September 11 2001., Mr Bartley was in the police academy at the time of the attacks he recently retired, from the NYPD after 20 years of service and is now working as a criminal justice teacher at Canyon, Springs Mr Bartley also spoke to the Board of Trustees about his experience during Monday's regular board meeting.

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Thank you, Mr Bartley, for your service, and may we never forget now for this next story. It takes us back here to the community garden for the past five years. This Garden has provided fresh produce for families throughout our district. This once empty lot at the canyon Hill Church of the Nazarene, is now a place where students come to learn and enjoy a fresh fruit or veggie. We.

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Want to be community-minded and we want to care for the families that are here in our community, and that was a good place to make those connections, and so really the community school at Sacagawea are the ones that were instrumental and gave great leadership, especially with United Way. Making that connection and continuing to provide food there.

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Every fall and spring kindergartners at Sacajawea help with harvesting to get involved with the garden to learn how and where our food comes from.

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It's great to have fresh produce, not too often it's. You know where it comes from. So that's been the joy of having the kindergarten kids come and just be so delighted on finding worms in the soil, and it's really important to provide some kind of fresh produce for the community.

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Heather Terry a parent at Sacagawea volunteers every week, and it was after her son told her about the community garden that she figured she could help out and give back to her community.

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Fresh vegetables, even if you're at the grocery store, they're kind of expensive and sometimes it's tight, and especially for big families and to have a garden like this to help out with some of that I think is an amazing thing.

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This Garden is not only a classroom but helps provide produce to families in a food scarce area. Once.

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A week, I drop off a bunch of stuff, and ever since school started, it's gone within by the time they're done, picking up their kids and everyone's gone home. So it's a great thing to know that you know families are getting all of.

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That we are grateful for our community partners for making this Garden possible and for serving the students and families in the Caldwell. School District, now make sure to tune in next week to see where the highlights will take me. Thank you for watching and have a great week.