School prep — volunteers lend hands with brushes for safety, beauty
Volunteers lend hands with brushes for safety, beauty
Photo by Clay Schuldt Sletta and Johnson: Beth Sletta (Left) and Rhonda Johnson (right) repaint the fence posts at the Jefferson Elementary garden.
Photo by Clay Schuldt Sam Gattson holds down the end of the measure tape for artist Greg Wimmer. The two are marking off where the painted roundabout will appear on bike safety track.
Photo by Clay Schuldt Rylyn Walter (left) and Khloe Cariveanu (right) help paint the new bicycle safety track on the black near Jefferson Elementary.
Photo by Clay Schuldt Sletta and Johnson: Beth Sletta (Left) and Rhonda Johnson (right) repaint the fence posts at the Jefferson Elementary garden.
Photo by Clay Schuldt Sam Gattson holds down the end of the measure tape for artist Greg Wimmer. The two are marking off where the painted roundabout will appear on bike safety track.
Photo by Clay Schuldt Rylyn Walter (left) and Khloe Cariveanu (right) help paint the new bicycle safety track on the black near Jefferson Elementary.
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NEW ULM -- Volunteers were painting at Jefferson Elementary to prepare for the return of students next week.
In the Jefferson Elementary School garden, former art teacher Rhonda Johnson and retired elementary teacher Beth Sletta were painting fences. Johnson is currently working as a paraprofessional in Riverbend but still has friends at Jefferson, and she agreed to lend a hand.
Sletta helped start the Jefferson garden years ago and wanted to help. She said the garden is still in her heart.
Johnson and Sletta credited Ingrid Liedman for taking care of the flowers through the summer.
In the blacktop space near the Jefferson playground, volunteers worked to paint a track designed to resemble roads for students to practice bicycle safety.
The track is funded through a Boost Grant for Safe Routes to School. The track is intended to instill pedestrian and bicycling safety.
Sam Gatton of the Safe Routes organization and artist Greg Wimmer worked to sketch the dimension of the painted track. The track will include common road features like roundabouts.