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Cardinal Carter students use rakes to flatten the soil of four 12 foot by four foot gardens installed at the school Tuesday, May 14. The gardens have been built as part of the “Change the World” Ontario Volunteer Youth Challenge.
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Cougars take part in Youth Challenge By Bryan Jessop Students and teachers at Cardinal Carter have vowed to ‘produce’ results for a province-wide volunteer program. Three local school boards — the French Catholic School Board of SouthWestern Ontario, the Greater Essex County District School Board and the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board — are all participating in the Change the World Ontario Volunteer Youth Challenge. Locally, the United Way/Centraide of Windsor and Essex County is supporting the challenge through a community garden project that ran April 23 to May 20. The United Way sent information on the OVYC to schools across Windsor and Essex County. Cardinal Carter, Villanova and Assumption replied by offering to participate in the community garden project to help alleviate the problems Windsor-Essex United Way/ Centraide manager of community engagement Lisa Raffoul refers to as “food deserts.” “We’re happy to help make this happen,” said Raffoul, explaining that food deserts affecting the county are areas where it is difficult for residents to access fresh produce. At Cardinal Carter, a group of about 70 students gathered along the south end of the school’s property between the building and parking lot to construct four 12 foot by four foot permanent gardens. Geography, woodworking and green industries classes joined forces to build the four-
piece garden on Tuesday, May 15 and plant it with herbs, cucumbers, tomatoes and radishes the following day. Teachers Chris Church and Paul George led the construction and planting processes, with woodworking students installing the stakes and frames for each garden section. “Having a plan in place is the first step and the teachers here put together a good plan,” said Raffoul. “It made it easier to do what they wanted to do. This has been a really good team effort.” Costs involved in the project were split between the United Way/Centraide and Cardinal Carter’s specialist high skills major agriculture program. The former provided wood, mulch, cucumbers and soil. The Leamington school’s students will maintain the garden for the remainder of the school year, after which point it will be tended to by members of Leamington Gardeners East Side Park through the summer months. Food grown in the garden will be shared between Leamington-area residents without access to fresh produce and Cardinal Carter’s culinary arts program. Members of the Leamington Gardeners group will distribute the produce to residents free of charge. Later this month, Cardinal Carter students plan to return the favour by assisting the Leamington Gardeners East Side Park group with a similar project in the Lutch/ Mill Street area.
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