A great time mucking in; ++ SCHOOLS ROUND-UP ++.WHEN building work began on a new community centre next to a Coventry school, staff and parents feared the disruption would be a blight blight, general term for any sudden and severe plant disease or for the agent that causes it. The term is now applied chiefly to diseases caused by bacteria (e.g., bean blights and fire blight of fruit trees), viruses (e.g., soybean bud blight), fungi (e.g. on their children's school lives. But then New Deal for Communities, which is building the centre in Deedmore Road, next to St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, stepped in to provide a lush screen of green to keep that disruption at bay. NDC NDC National Drug Code NDC NATO Defense College NDC National Documentation Centre (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece) NDC National Dairy Council NDC National Democratic Congress paid for 200 bushes and trees to be planted to create the horticultural hor·ti·cul·ture n. 1. The science or art of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants. 2. The cultivation of a garden. screen, and the school community in Wood End came together to do the donkey work. Staff, parents and children all mucked in to do the planting and got their hands well and truly dirty in the process. Teacher Kevin Cantillon organised the project and was delighted with the results of the effort. He said: "We appealed for volunteers and we had a good day of back-breaking work, with over eight tonnes of top soil to shift. "It's looking brilliant. The bushes and shrubs are quite small at the moment, but they've settled in well. We've had plenty of rain after all." And Mr Cantillon believes the whole exercise was a great example of the community spirit in Wood End. CAPTION(S): DIGGING IT... Pupils teamed up to plant dozens of trees. Picture: Richard Nelmes RN030408TREE1 |
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