Academy at Sisters Helping the Community
The students at the Academy at Sisters Boarding School recently completed an ADA Accessible trail for local residents. They accomplished this task while learning “outside the box” with hands on experiences, and lots of off-campus adventures.
Rosland Campground, in La Pine Oregon, is part of the La Pine Park and Recreation Department and has been unfunded until four months ago. The students built a trail, in hopes that it would be accessible to all who visit the park. The trail is about a mile long, is wheel-chair accessible, and has five access points. For six weeks the students dug up Manzanita, pruned trees, and created a level surface for the trail. The trail is a beautiful, peaceful place where anyone can enjoy a nature walk.
“The most inspirational thing for me was when I was out in the community, the LaPine residents would come up and tell me how excited they were for the opening of the trail, and that they had a place for their families to walk and be together,” noted Maia, one of the student trail builders.
The Academy at Sisters offers a comprehensive personal growth program that focuses on changing at-risk behaviors. http://www.academyatsisters.org/
