Welcome: Andrew Przestalski (our next president, substituting for our current president, Bill Lewis)
AmeriCorps is a program of the U.S. federal government engaging adults in intensive community service work with the goal of "helping others and meeting critical needs in the community." Members commit to full- or part-time positions offered by a network of nonprofit community organizations and public agencies, to fulfill assignments in the fields of education, public safety, health care, and environmental protection. The program is often compared to the Peace Corps as its domestic counterpart.
Alicia, Bree and a group of 4 other your adults are working on Sahara mustard eradication. For the past 5 - 7 years the Sahara mustard has become a huge problem. It deprives other plants of light, nutrients and space and it has a long tap root. For the past 3 months, the group has worked on the eradication in an area of mustard infestation along S-22.
They live and work together as a family, travel for about 6 months and then put together a team. They started off as a team in Oregon and then deployed to Sacramento and spent 2 weeks doing income tax for low income families.
They started the local project 3 days before the huge wind storm of April 8, 2013. When the storm hit, they called Chuck Bennett and he came to help take their tents down and loaded into the truck so that all their bedding, food and clothes would not get blown across the desert.
They can be deployed in 24 hours to emergencies such as hurricanes & fires. On June 3, they leave for Hawaii to build a Habitat for Humanity for a group that lost their homes from a recent hurricane.
3 other team members are coming to the elementary school for a slide show showing that anyone can help eradicate the mustard, including the school children.
