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Service Projects |
SNOWBIRD CHEROKEE COMMUNITY
- Snowbird Senior Citizens Center – Students will do a craft project with the
seniors in the morning
- Snowbird Child Development Center – Students will volunteer in three
classrooms in the morning (infants, 2-3 year olds, and 4-5 year olds).
- Snowbird Health Clinic – Service projects include: plan and lead dance and
exercise classes for children and adults, make home health visits and do yard
and housework for disabled residents, and help plan and conduct a Health Fair
- Home Projects – The director of the Senior Center keeps a list of home projects
for seniors. Activities can include painting, minor repairs, yard work, building a
ramp, etc.
- Nantahala National Forest – The Snowbird community is located in Nantahala
National Forest. Students will work on special projects such as planting apple
trees as food plots for wildlife, trail repair, build boardwalks, maintain Indian
cemeteries within the national forest.
CHEROKEE NATIONAL FOREST
- Trail maintenance, special projects, creek cleanups
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
- Remove exotic, invasive plant species, trail maintenance,
special projects
SEQUOYAH MUSEUM
- Build educational kiosks
- Remove exotic/invasive plant species along the Lakeshore Trail
- Plant native species trees, bushes, and wildflowers
HOMESTEADING AT ONCE UPON A TIME
- Gather and split firewood
- Work in the garden, planting, weeding, harvesting
- Make and can blackberry jam (you get to take a jar home with you)
- Small construction projects – build a fence, build a shed
- Plant trees in a wildlife management area adjacent to
Once Upon A Time
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