Conservation Youth Corps gets boost

Mayor Marolyn Morrison, CYC foundation chair, presents a cheque for $37,000 to Councillor John Hutton, CYC vice-chair, to help expand the Conservation Youth Corps program for 2008.

Conservation Youth Corps (CYC), an exciting program of Credit Valley Conservation for high school students, enjoyed a very successful year. More than 120 high school students participated in the week-long program planting trees, clearing trails, and learning about their local environment and how they can protect it.

Collectively, the CYC planted nearly 10,000 trees over the season. As the program drew to a close for this year, organizers celebrated the successes and presented awards to outstanding CYC participants.

CYC offers a hands-on, safe volunteer and learning experience in a structured environment for high school students. It offers youth in our watershed an opportunity to get involved in enhancing our natural environment. They get outside, meet new friends and get their volunteer community hours while making positive environmental changes in local communities and across the watershed.

Conservation Authorities are a provincial/municipal partnership. The CVC was established by an Act of the province in 1954 with a mandate to protect all natural resources other than minerals in the area drained by the Credit River. They have been working for more than 50 years with our partner municipalities and stakeholders to protect and enhance the natural environment of the Credit River Watershed for present and future generations.