Aloha Wright Grants for 2010
Kingston Community Beautification Committee (no pictures available yet):
Community volunteers will refurbish and landscape the area surrounding the Kingston Chamber of Commerce office on the corner of West Kingston Road and Hwy 104.
Kingston (High School) Key Club (no pictures available yet):
This spring the Kingston (High School) Key Club is going to build and tend to a vegetable and flower garden. Part of the plan is to install an irrigation system and start a compost facility.
Richard Gordon Elementary School (no pictures available yet):
Richard Gordon School is currently in the implementation stage of starting a “Plant a Seed” project. This will ultimately lead to students eating foods that have been grown in the school garden.
Kingston Middle School (no pictures available yet):
Help Kingston Middle School purchase mulch for newly created beds (KGC donated money in 2008 for the initial project) in the front entrance of the school.
Kingston Chamber of Commerce (no pictures available yet):
To help purchase plants for the hanging baskets located throughout Kingston.
Kingston Village Green Foundation (no pictures available yet):
Master Gardeners and volunteers are establishing a community vegetable garden at the Village Green Community Park in Kingston. All produce grown will be donated to the Kingston food banks.
Aloha Wright Grants for 2009
Gordon Elementary School (no pictures available):
Help create an infrastructure for establishing a sustainable garden at the school. Volunteers, PTA, staff and students will be involved in working to compost, plant and finally eat the fruits of their labor.
Aloha Wright Grants for 2008
Kingston Middle School
Re-landscape the front entrance to the Kingston Middle School. Volunteers replaced mostly dead and dying junipers and rhododendrons. Savage Plants sold KMS plants at cost and donated the design; NW Rock donated the landscape rocks and Emu sold the soil at cost. Other companies that donated the labor were Moore’s Works, Zimmer Construction, Ibsen and Hard Rock along with parents and students.
Downtown Kingston Association - April 2008
The Kingston Garden Club
has awarded a $500 Community Beautification grant to the Downtown Kingston
Association. The money will be used to purchase ground cover and plants to
beautify the planting strips along West Kingston Road.
Perennials, which will receive the excess water from the hanging baskets, will be planted near each lamppost and the remainder of the planting strips will be filled with a ground cover called Rubus calycinoides or Ornamental Raspberry. This drought tolerant ground cover turns a vivid red in the fall and sports white flowers with amber fruits in the late spring.
The planting and maintaining of the parking strips will be a group effort by several organizations including the Downtown Kingston Association, Kingston Rotary and the horticulture class from Spectrum High School. Several businesses have contributed to the project, including Savage Plants, Emu Topsoil and McClain Landscaping.
Stillwaters (no pictures available):
Create a “Welcome to the Watershed” packet to help residents adjust their everyday living habits to best protect ground water quality. Stillwaters will create and distribute earth-friendly homeowner information packets to 600 homes in this area most of them with a verbal presentation. Packets will also be distributed to realtors to target homeowners new to the area.
Spectrum Community School (this was to help purchase a shed so there are no pictures):
Money will be used to go toward the purchase of a new shed so the school can grow vegetables to supplement the school lunch program.
Aloha Wright Grants for 2007
David Wolfle Elementary – 2007
Develop a native plant garden with raised beds in the shape of the sun. The area is going to be used as an outside classroom to enforce math and science objectives. Plants and trees will be tagged to teach students our native plants and ethnobotany as well as a love of gardening. This area will also provide an alternative for students who prefer to sit in quiet surroundings to read and/or write.
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Aloha Wright Grants for 2006
Stillwaters Environmental Education Center – 2006
Remove non-native invasive plants in the watershed of Carpenter Creek and replace with appropriate native plants. This is one portion of a larger, funded project to place large woody debris in the salt marsh and along the lower section of Carpenter Creek.
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David Wolfle Elementary School - 2006
Renovation of nature trail and outdoor education classroom, including clearing, widening trail, re-establishing pond, paving trail for wheelchair/handicap accessibility.
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Richard Gordon Elementary - 2006
The school planted bulbs and plants along the pathway from Barber Cut-Off Road to the entrance of the school.
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