News : West Campus students help with variety of community projects

Mike Elwick welcomed the West Campus students to an ice cream social at Old School Produce Tuesday.

West Campus students and instructors pose for a photo at Old School, where they worked in gardens.

West Campus students and instructors pose for a photo at Old School, where they worked in gardens.

Students of the Vinton-Shellsburg West Campus the site (the alternative high school program) have spent much of the past several weeks in a Community Service class. The students helped several local organizations in an effort to improve Vinton and also teach community involvement.

Their schedule included the following projects in April and May:

4/21 & 4/22 - Working on bike trail with VPRD;

4/26 - Community Service Project in the West Campus neighborhood - working with Old School Produce;

5/2 through 5/5 - Rogers Park - various projects with the Benton County Conservation Department;

5/10 through 5/12 - ISU/Benton Co. Extension - working on community garden projects.

On Tuesday, Mike Elwick and the VPRD honored the students with an ice cream social at Old Produce.

VPRD Director Brad Barker said the students were very helpful in the trail-clearing project; Elwick said they accomplished much in the Old School gardens.

While at Old School, the students saw the antique car that Elwick had recently purchased and posed for a photo in the area where they had worked.

See photos of the ice cream social and the work at the community garden HERE.