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Youth go from school to work<br>Area students make a few bucks while helping beautify Tusayan

TUSAYAN — Students from Grand Canyon and Ash Fork descended upon Tusayan over the weekend to work on a landscaping project initiated by the South Grand Canyon Sanitation District.

Nineteen students, 13 from Ash Fork and six from Grand Canyon, were on hand for the revegetation effort near the Grand Hotel, where some areas had been torn up as the sanitation district worked on its reclaim water system.

“We were under the gun to finish before Memorial Day because of dust problems with the Grand Hotel,” said John Rueter of the sanitation district. “I’m impressed with these kids. It saved us money vs. the district having to hire a landscaping company out of town. And the kids are paid.”

The program is part of the Northern Arizona Rural Trust Cluster, which helps fund school-to-work activities in Grand Canyon, Ash Fork, Seligman and Williams.

Rueter said the reveg project includes the restoration of the area

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utilizing low water-usage plants, which will be irrigated with reclaim water.

“I’ll be happy to bring them back again because we have other areas to restore (associated) with our reclaim project,” Rueter said. “I hope we can get some kids from Seligman more from Grand Canyon and from Williams, too. For me to go out and get 20-some people would be impossible.”

The six Grand Canyon students working on the site were Kara Foo, Cally Foo, Crystal Coffey, Michele Mickelson, Matt Hender and Joe Wilkerson.


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