Friends Partner With Audubon Green Leaders Program
FoBW member Betsy Valle initiated outreach to the Portland Audubon Green Leaders, a youth program that includes minority teens. The teens and the group’s leader, Zahir Ringgold Cordes, were invited to join the Friends for the first time this summer for a weekly Golden Hour work party where volunteers removed prickly lettuce from the upper meadow. It was fun getting to know the teens as the two groups worked side by side hacking the tall weeds and carrying them to waiting tarps to be removed.
Zahir along with FoBW volunteers subsequently organized a Green Leaders’ Nature Treasure Hunt and planting event on November 1, that included the teens’ family members.
Alondra Nieves Barajas, a Green Team member, has agreed to help us with our third Saturday work parties. She is receiving a small stipend from FoBW. We are happy to have her on the team! Welcome Alondra!
Photo with bags = Zahir and Esteffany Garcia Medrano, of the Audubon Green Leaders program
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