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| Workin' on the a trail from Tecopa Springs
to China Ranch. |
Las Vegas celebrated Earth Day with a joint BEC/Southern Nevada
Group service trip for members and volunteers with a theme of "Care
About America? Care for America!"
On Saturday, April 23rd, 35 volunteers, including three of our four
BEC Steering Committee Members and their families, showed up bright
and early to board the bus to travel to Tecopa Springs about 90
miles outside of Vegas. Our mission was to help build and repair
the trail from Tecopa Springs to China Ranch in the beautiful and
scenic Amargosa Valley.
We arrived ready to work by about 9 am and because there were so
many of us we had already finished the work by 10:30. The Bureau
of Land Management ranger was so impressed with our work that they
gave us more to do and we successfully built a little over a mile
of trail.
We finished up the additional work by about 2:30 and drove to China
Ranch to have a picnic lunch and take part in the infamous China
Ranch date shake. All of our volunteers had an opportunity to taste
a famous date shake (which was actually pretty good!) and learned
about the history of the area. We then loaded up and headed back
to Las Vegas tired but feeling good about the work we did for Earth
Day.
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| John DeCock, executive director of The Sierra
Club Foundation, applied some elbow grease during an Earth Day
event in Las Vegas. |
Our special guest, John DeCock, Executive Director of the Sierra
Club Foundation, spoke to volunteers about the BEC program and the
local campaigns that the Sierra Club is working on in the Valley.
He inspired and spoke one on one with volunteers answering questions
they had. Overall, the volunteers feltvery honored to have Mr. DeCock
along with us.
We are excited to say that the majority of our volunteers on Saturday
were new faces!
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