Students help create banners for Leduc neighbourhoods

July 6, 2012 by admin
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Students help create banners for Leduc neighbourhoods

By Stephanie Dubois

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Local students were recently part of a Communities in Bloom committee (CIB) decision to make banners for older Leduc neighbourhoods.

The banners feature a design chosen by the students and bear the name of the area, something local volunteers are quite proud of.

“We’re always thrilled to get the students involved. It’s their community as well, they’re going to grow up in it,” explained Wendy Yule, member at large with the Leduc CIB.

An organization, which its members said consists of more than planting flowers, the CIB aims to beautify communities and decided to erect banners in the older neighbourhoods which don’t have a welcoming entrance sign like newer developments.

Thanks to the initiative, Linsford Park and Corinthia residents will now each have a banner welcoming people to their neighbourhood. Students at both Linsford Park School and Ecole Corinthia Park School chose the nature themed banner for Linsford and the physical activity theme for Corinthia.

“The older communities just didn’t have that visible identification symbol and the banners are very colourful and nice to look at and good identifiers. I was just very pleased with their involvement and their enthusiasm, their ideas and the teachers and principals and it was an excellent response on their part.”

After choosing the individual banner designs, the city’s contract graphic designer went to work at printing the banners which will hang in the communities.

Although this is the first time the CIB has created banners for the Leduc areas, this isn’t the first time the committee has worked with children, with many youth programming scheduled year-round.

Volunteers with the committee stress the project was a great way for students to not only become more involved in their communities but also to participate in an overall great project.

“It’s great for them to look at the banner and say to families and friends ‘I had a part in picking that banner for my community.’ We’re always happy to involve children in any of the programs we do.”

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