Mt. Scott Learning Center is an
Our Portland 2009 Community
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| Our Portland Crew, March 21 |
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| Parking lot transformation, Day 1
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Groundwork Portland, in collaboration with AmeriCorps volunteers Lauren Senkyr and Carrie Jones, Hands on Portland, and DePave are assisting Mt Scott Learning Center in a parking lot transformation. The old church the school is housed in has an unnecessarily large (and cold) parking lot. Groundwork Portland is helping to break up the gravel and bring in the plants to make the school grounds more inviting and more sustainable.
March 21 was the first of two work days; this crew hauled a lot of dirt and rocks!
April 25, the volunteers will be back with plants and paint
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MSLC is alternative education program to meet the special needs of our
community’s at-risk youth. The majority of MSLC students come from
low-income backgrounds and often struggle both socially and
academically. Many of the students have learning disabilities and all
have environmental distractions that make it essential that each
student receive the individualized attention afforded by small
class sizes.
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