Vote online for Greenwood to fund a new nature center for kids
GREENWOOD, Ind. (WISH) — A new nature center for kids is in the works for Greenwood, but the city needs your vote in an online contest to help fund the project.
The city is competing online for a $5000 grant to pay for the educational center.
The home of Greenwood’s stormwater department will also be the future site of a nature center.
“It will be the first of its kind in the area,” Stormwater Supervisor Randy Weathers said.
You can see the beginnings of their vision already, like rain barrels and native plants growing out front.
They already use the building to test water from Pleasant Creek, which runs next to the site.
“To take those water samples and find out what we’re doing with the water, and if we’re keeping it clean, and if we’re succeeding,” Weathers said.
Now Weathers wants to build an educational area to teach kids about that process and about the local environment.
“Take water samples and find out why you’d want native plantings in there,” he said, “So that’s what the money will be used for: help us clean that area up, put in the native plantings, and get some kind of curriculum together for those kids.”
“Any time we can get out and enjoy nature and she gets to learn about it,” Greenwood resident Joshua Campbell said.
Campbell said it sounds like a great idea and he’s looking forward to taking his daughter.
“I think it’s a cool thing, to get the kids out and explore some nature and see some things they wouldn’t ordinarily see,” he said.
Campbell is planning to get online and vote for Greenwood in the “PIG Difference” grant contest.
That’s what Weathers said it will take to make this project a reality.
He’s also excited that the voting process is getting people involved before the project has even begun.
“We’re getting the word out that this is what we’re doing, this is how we’re doing it, and this is how we’d like to accomplish it,” Weathers said.
You can vote once a day, one vote per device.
Voting ends April 20.
To vote online, click here, scroll to the bottom, and click on the Greenwood entry.