On Oct. 31, two classes of the Community Environmental Leadership Program (CELP) of the Upper Grand District School Board were set to plant 1,000 trees to complete a carbon offset that their daily bus run to Eden Mills houses.
The project is the second one in a single school year. Last May, in consultation with the Carbon Neutral Group in Eden Mills and the Wellington County Green Legacy program, the calculations arrived at that number of trees per semester.
Teacher Michael Elrick said, “The most exciting part about this initiative is that it is being led by our bus driver, Darryl Nichol, of First Student bus lines. Darryl has been the energy driving this from the start.”
Starting at 10am on Friday, on Arkell Road between Arkell and Eden Mills, across from Starkey Hills in Puslinch Township, students will be planting 1000 trees. The rain date will be Tuesday, Nov. 4.
Nichol said, “I’m particularly excited about this planting because of its location. I drive by it everyday with my CELP [Canadian Environmental Literacy Project] students, and both they and I will get the chance to see the trees grow over time.”
