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Friday, October 12, 2012 • Bainbridge Island Review
NOTABLE Teen has summer working in Ghana Grace Purdy, a 10thgrader at Bainbridge High School, spent a month of her summer vacation in Ghana, West Africa, with Visions Service Adventures, an international service learning program. Purdy was one of 20 high school students who lived in Grace Purdy a small town of Ghana’s Volta Region. The teen volunteers began construction of a children’s home — Ghanaian parlance for an orphanage/charter school — by digging trenches, mixing and pouring a
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A dozen youth from the Winslow Cohousing Community cycled and scootered an amazing 1,143 laps on Sunday, Sept. 30 and raised $1,000 to be split evenly between the Bainbridge Island Land Trust’s Hilltop Campaign and Global Source Education’s Educulture Project. This is the fifth annual Cohousing bike-athon which was inspired by Alice Gutsche-Smith, now 9, when she learned to ride her two-wheeler without training wheels. Each year, the kids pick one or two island organizations for the fundraising effort. In past years, donations have gone to Helpline House, West Sound Wildlife Shelter and the Bainbridge Public Library. Riders from left to right are Cleome, Maggie, Kevan, Cuinn, Soleil, Ellie, Alice, Argus, Mateo, Oliver, Jameson and Poppy. concrete foundation, and positioning 18 columns as the first phase of construction. The high schoolers also cleared and marked a trail to the peak of Agbenoxoe
Mountain, overlooking Lake Volta and an historic shrine. And as part of a social service initiative, the group volunteered with children at a nearby orphanage.
The trip wasn’t all work for Purdy and the other students. They learned about Ghanaian culture firsthand through shared work projects and social visits with local hosts. The
group visited places of historic and geographic interest, including the Cape Coast, the ancient capital of Kumasi and its sprawling artisans market, and Mole National
Park, where they viewed African wildlife. Students also learned Ghanaian trades, including traditional kente weaving, through internships with craftspeople.
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