Volunteers planted eight fruit trees at Coles Elementary School in Prince William County.
The volunteers worked on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 as part of Dominion Virginia Power’s “Energize the Community” project.
Dominion employee volunteers will take time away from their normal, busy schedules to “Energize Our Community” and help Coles Elementary teachers and students enhance their learning environment by building a learning orchard. The learning orchard will feature a 150-foot long three-foot wide trail made up of compacted rock dust. Employee volunteers will plant eight fruit-bearing trees of the school’s choice at eight learning stations around the trail. At each station will be a bench that the students can use to study and understand the process that each tree undergoes from seed through a mature fruit — ready for harvest. Volunteers will also remove sod and enhance the overall aesthetic environment.
This marks the 16th year for the program.
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