NCCC’s Oak 7 Fights Mountain Pine Beetles in the Black Hills

AMERICORPS NCCC
June 27, 2012 12:15 pm

  By Ruskin Landreth and Rebecca Bigler – Oak 7   An AmeriCorps NCCC team, Oak 7, has just finished up their second project in the 2012 service year with the forestry department of Custer State Park in South Dakota.

AmeriCorps NCCC Class 18 Corps Member Spotlight: Emma Mills

AMERICORPS NCCC
June 27, 2012 10:56 am

By: Rachel Lebeaux Name: Emma Mills Hometown: Winchester, Massachusetts Emma is currently serving as a member of Oak 2 with the AmeriCorps NCCC at the Vinton Campus.

Two young men chosen for trip to nation’s capital

EAST CENTRAL IOWA REC
June 27, 2012 10:40 am

  Dalton Schmit of Jesup and Parker Oltogge of Shellsburg recently participated in the Electric Cooperative Youth Tour program in Washington, D.

NCCC Team Brings New Life to The Baldwin Center

AMERICORPS NCCC
June 25, 2012 8:32 pm

  By: Santonio Washington, Maple 7   Maple 7 is working with the Baldwin Center to help revitalize their Clothes Closet. The team is spending three weeks scraping and sanding the two-story farmhouse before they finally began priming.

AmeriCorps NCCC Class 18 Corps Member Spotlight: Hilary Rohlman

RACHEL LEBEAUX
June 21, 2012 11:14 pm

  Editor's Note: This NCCC spotlight is on Hilary Rohlman, one of the AmeriCorps members serving this year from the Vinton campus. From Michigan, Hilary is a member of Oak 3.

NCCC Oak 3 team helps people in Upper Peninsula

DEON JOHNSON
June 21, 2012 11:06 pm

  Oak 3 is working hard to beautify the Upper Peninsula State Fairgrounds in Escanaba, Michigan and get it ready for the State Fair. They are using chainsaws to cut down trees while others carried trees to the wood chipper.

AmeriCorps NCCC Class 18 Corps Member Spotlight: Sara Butler

RACHEL LEBEAUX
June 21, 2012 11:06 pm

  Editor's Note: Today we include information about another AmeriCorps member who is living in Vinton while serving Americans in many states this year.

NCCC Oak 2 members help at Friendship Center in Dodgeville

EMMA MILLS
June 21, 2012 11:06 pm

  AmeriCorps NCCC’s Oak 2 is currently in Dodgeville staying at Friendship Center Camp for six weeks helping with the removal of invasive species such as wild parsnip, garlic mustard, box elder tree, Japanese honeysuckle and prickly ash.

NCCC Oak 2 members help at Science Station Summer Camp, Shellsburg school

EMMA MILLS
June 21, 2012 11:06 pm

  AmeriCorps NCCC’s Oak 2 is currently working at the Science Station located in the Lindale Mall in Cedar Rapids. They are helping out with a series of summer camps that make science, technology, engineering and math fun and easy to learn.

AmeriCorps members help after Mouse River flood in ND

ALEASE ROWAN
June 21, 2012 11:06 pm

  On May 18, 2012, AmeriCorps NCCC team Maple Six, arrived in Minot, North Dakota to assist Lutheran Disaster Response with mucking, gutting, power washing and sanitizing homes that were affected by the June 2011 Mouse River Flood.