161 volunteers turned an east Las Vegas school garden into an outdoor classroom
Students, parents, and neighbors at Mendoza Elementary spread 44 tons of donated rock, built benches, painted a dinosaur mural, and laid a River of Kindness of painted stones.
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On Saturday, Oct. 10, 161 volunteers joined students at John F. Mendoza Elementary in east Las Vegas to redo a weedy garden, the Las Vegas Sun reported. A landscaper hauled in 44 tons of crushed rock. Parents and children spread it, built wooden benches, painted dinosaurs on a block wall, and set painted stones in a curving River of Kindness around the beds.
Rod Hicken, a retired Station Casinos facilities worker, started the day after he walked past on his way to church and saw tumbleweeds through the fence. His children had gone to the school. Shade structures and a whiteboard were still on the way, so the plot is becoming an outdoor classroom rather than a finished one. The gardening club already grows vegetables, herbs, and flowers there.
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