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Students Band Together to Spruce Up Elementary School
With garden tools and paint brushes in hand, more than 30 student volunteers descended on Poplar Elementary School in Fontana to revitalize a parched and neglected garden that is a memorial to the husband of a Poplar teacher who died fighting in Iraq.
They pulled weeds, picked up trash and created murals on playground walls as part of the effort.
When Marlon Rojas, a student at Cal Poly Pomona and who works in Poplar’s after-school program, watched students play handball on plain brick walls and read in the barren garden, he recognized a need for improvement and sought resources. This is when the president of the College of Education & Integrative Studies Council, Rachel Torres, stepped in.