Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
AmeriCorps Volunteers and community members plant irises at the Visitors Center. Iris Club members assisting with the planting were LeRoy Meininger, Jo Wells and Sharon Johnson.
AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps is a federal program for 18-24 year-olds and teams up with local non-profit organizations to complete hands-on projects.
AmeriCorps volunteers will be in Kimball County for the next month working on a variety of projects. The Visitors Center was first on the list of receiving help as the 11 volunteers from Connecticut to Jamaica and Lithuania acclimated themselves to Kimball. The young workers helped plant an iris area at the Visitors Center and they also cleaned up and weeded the landscape around the Visitors Center.
Quinn Herring, 19 from Birmingham, Ala., said that she joined AmeriCorps for "the opportunity to travel" and using the experience as a gap year between high school and college for volunteer work.
Another AmeriCorps volunteer, Oneikie Steward, came to the United States from Jamaica in 2016.
"I wanted to experience and see the world, I wanted to travel because I have never really been anywhere."
The AmeriCorps volunteers are being housed at the parsonage in Bushnell and will continue to work in the Kimball area.
