It’s Spring—and time to think about Summer Programs and Gardens

In spring, planning summer programs for school children is underway.This year we have a proposal to fund an additional week of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) education for the Boys and Girls Club. 

Also in spring, our taste buds start remembering what really fresh, ripe food tastes like:  fragrant, sweet tomatoes, crunchy lettuces, tiny new potatoes, and crisp parsley that radiates green flavor, to list a few garden foods that are just not the same in winter. 

I’m ready for a BLT right now, with garden-ripe tomatoes!

See all the proposals in the grant catalog: 
 https://spccf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/list/grant.

Boys & Girls Club of the Long Beach Peninsula asks for support to expand their Summer STEAM Program. This organization offers four weeks of summer activities; this proposed fifth week is filled with training in STEAM [science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics] curriculum activities that both entertain and teach participating students important science concepts, tied to the school curriculum. Arts are not left out—this includes several art classes during the week. 

Donations go to help purchase equipment, supplies, food, and travel expenses to several local sites. Help make this summer the best ever for our local school children. 

Ocean Park Community Garden is a new nonprofit that supports a community garden in Ocean Park. The interest in plots for growing food and flowers was so big this spring that the organizers outgrew their first location before anything was planted. 

So, just a few weeks ago they moved, quickly, to a new location which has already been cleared, tilled and had some initial soil amendments added. Water is being laid in for irrigation, and plots set out. 

Donations will go to buying tools, fencing (lots of hungry deer in this community, a fence is important), hoses, storage space for tools, and other materials and equipment. There may be a pumpkin patch for the school too. The new location is north of the post office and south of Sheldon Field. 

Help OPCG get new roots in the ground with your donation.

All the grants are at https://spccf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/list/grant. Make donations on this webpage for each grant you wish to support.  

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Make the check out to SPCCF. Mail to ‘SPCCF, PO Box 91, Nahcotta WA 98637.’ 

Your community and its many active nonprofit organizations thank you!