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Students learn lifeskills and sustainability in Outdoor Ed program CAIA GAGNON Special to Trail Times
The Outdoor Education Academy is the centre of attention at J.L. Crowe Secondary School since the second batch of ducklings arrived earlier this month. This program, for grades 11 and 12, provides life-changing experiences for students through a variety of activities such as wilderness cooking, trip planning, and mountain navigation. The students also help out in the garden which consists of two greenhouses, one outside and one inside, and the community garden. A coop also houses the six new ducklings, which also teaches students about raising and caring for animals. Teacher Colin Adamson decided it was time to get more ducklings before the end of the school year. He took the students on a field trip to the Quack Me Up! farm in Creston. The class acquired six new ducklings and saw cows, goats, pigs, and sheep
Students in J.L. Crowe Secondary’s Outdoor Ed program are tasked with caring for ducks as well as the school’s community garden. Among other things, the program offers students lessons on sustainability with local food sources. in the everyday farm setting “It’s a great educational connec-
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tion piece to have. I don’t want to let that go,” said Adamson, who loves
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The towers are up, now the actual bridge can go up. First, the waterway between the new bridge and Columbia River Skywalk site will be closed on Tuesday, allowing crews to begin the suspension part of the build by carrying rope and cable from shore-to-shore. The stretch of river will be closed intermittently from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. today and on specific days (not yet announced) until late May. Restricting water access for this
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that the students are regularly engaging with the ducklings.
leg of work is required under the project’s Transport Canada permit, says city engineer Warren Proulx. “What’s going to happen is Graham (Graham Infrastructure) is going to pull a rope and cable across the river by boat and in doing so, they are going to block the waterway,” Proulx explained. “Pulling these cables across the river, means they are going to be in the water or just above water level - if we don’t warn people they could run into it, and that, of course, wouldn’t be a good situation.” Signs will be posted at Indian Eddy Wharf and at the Beaver
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Creek boat launch warning people of the temporary closure. As added security, the city has hired two boats outfitted with air horns and signage to stop anyone who may not heed the warning. “The only way to get the cable across the river is to pull it across,” said Proulx. “It’s just for the time it takes to get this cable across the river that boats can’t pass into the area.” Beginning early Tuesday morning, nylon rope will be dropped into a boat, taken across the water and wound up on a reel. From there, the line will be beefed up with a steel cable pulled across the water, lifted
The entire program has been a school-wide project. Students have helped construct a coop, with a mural, for the ducklings, build planter boxes for the garden and maintain the plants throughout the year as well as harvesting everything for food classes and sharing the experience with the community. Meanwhile, the Outdoor Ed students are enthusiastic and eager to care for the newest ducklings. “It’s educational,” said Grade 11 student Sarah Grieve. “I think it’s great. I really like the whole garden and having the ducks. The whole idea is awesome.” Another Outdoor Ed student, Aven Cosbey, enjoys learning about where her food comes from. “(I’m from) a family of vegetarians, as a meat eater, I have to make an informed decision about eating meat.” The students can’t wait to watch them grow and become a resource they can use to help the school. Last week, the Foods portion of Outdoor Ed prepared a potluck lunch by harvesting last year’s ducks and shared with the school. Most of the students were unaware that such a fate would await the ducks; however, the students from Outdoor Ed brought in the ducks for the hands-on sustainability of taking care and using the animals to learn about food sources. Continued on A3 with a crane and secured across the river like a clothesline. “Once they actually get the cable across and on both sides, they are going to lift the cable up to the towers and build the bridge from a trolley,” said Proulx. “The cable goes up, and then they attach a cage that can hold four iron workers and the hi-line cable allows them to move along, lowering and raising the cage while they work on the bridge,” he added. “The basket will have hooks to attach the items the workers need for each part. Then they return to shore, get more parts and go back out and work on the bridge from there.”
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