Lean and Green at Volonte Park

WALKING THE TRAIL:
Ellen Harington’s 1st grade class from Prairie School leads her class along the aqueduct that spans Volonte Park. She and the two other 1st grade teachers, Susan Landers and Theresa Rubin, walked their students and stopped at the various displays.

They came in school buses, private cars or they walked to Volonte Park on March 18 to attend the Lean and Green Day. Students and adults walked the new nature trail and stopped at the exercise stations that the Anderson Parks and Recreation built Volonte Park. The new trail goes along the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District canal aqueduct and through the wetlands. Geese and ducks looked up from their swimming positions as young students looked at them in the water.

The fourth annual Lean and Green Day was designed to bring awareness to the city’s new nature trail and exercise stations. Pam Lewis, the city’s recreation supervisor, said she was “thrilled by all the help the high school students had given her.” Lewis also expressed that she hoped the trails and stations will be used year-round.

Anderson had received grants from the Shasta County Tobacco Education Funds which were administered by the Shasta County’s Public Health; a wildlife habitat improvement grant from the State of California Parks and Recreation; and a California trail grant.

The day was sponsored by area schools and public health to promote the Anderson Partnership for Healthy Children, CANFit and Healthy Eating, Active Communities.

Information booths and educational activities offered different topics for visitors.