“Provider Pals” Entertain and Educate

FUR COMMISSION USA PRESS RELEASE, MAY 17, 1999
“Provider Pals” Entertain and Educate
RESOURCE PROVIDERS FROM SEVERAL STATES hit Washington, DC May 17, and did a full day of presentations for middle school children in the inner city. Resource Provider Pals is a project to link the younger school children in the cities with the people who provide them with all their “stuff.”
Lemon G. Hine Junior High School, located in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol building, played host to about 20 Provider Pals representing logging, ranching, mining, fishing and farming.
These Pals got to meet over 600 students, talking with them about sustainable forestry and how to fell a tree, how to run a mine and recognize gold when you see it, what it takes to be a rancher, and where our food and clothing come from.
Hands-on tools played an important part in the teaching process because they made it fun! Loggers and fishermen supplied logging clothes, slickers and hats as well as netting and floats, and the kids played dress up and took pictures. The kids especially loved trying on a fur coat and hugging a mink teddy bear donated by Flemington Furs of New Jersey.
Several loggers fired up their chainsaws in the school parking lot and sliced through 200-year-old logs! Counting the rings was a new concept for many of the children.
This joint production was a lot of work by a dedicated group of volunteers, but amazingly fun and productive. A big thank you to Bruce Vincent, Communities for a Great Northwest and Alliance for America for making it all happen.
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