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December 2014 Below are Pupils from Sanderson High school who joined with East Kilbride Rotarians to plant Spring Bulbs in the area around the school. The same group of pupils gave their time to be involved with the Rotary Clubs annual clean up earlier in the year at Calderglen

Below on 8th & 10th of March 2015 seen the Club involved in planting 350 trees at Hunter Primary School where the Rotarians dug the holes & the children planted the young trees.Rotarians involved in picture below left to right George McGraw, Ray Porrelli,Russel Gill, President Archie King, and our own Horticulturist Past President Roddy Shanks who was involved in the purchase of the trees. David Brown also contributed but is not in the picture

On his own Past President Edwin Robertson putting the young trees into groups of different varieties in preperation for planting by the children

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The team returned to the school on Monday 7th September 2015 to clear away all the weeds and long grass around the young trees. We are delighted to see that nearly all the young trees had established well , which shows that all the hard work carried out by the Hunter School pupils last spring will result in an impressive area of woodland in a few years time. All in All a good job done

Three East Kilbride Rotarians thought they had finished with digging at Hunter Primary School when last March 300 holes were dug by the Rotarians and 300 trees planted by the pupils. However project leader Roddy Shanks had different views and on reflection considered the trees looked a little lonely on the hillside and decided 500 daffodils would brighten up the hillside. Last Friday lunchtime with shovels at the ready, three rotarians, Roddy Shanks, Archie King and Ray Porrelli ventured onto the hillside to dig 160 holes for the planting of the 500 bulbs. After the school lunch break Ms McKee lead the first lot of pupils onto the hillside and following a horticultural question and answer between the children and Roddy, planting began. William Wordsworth would have been overjoyed if he could have seen the pupils planting the bulbs and stamping the soil and then visualise the sight in Spring. Mrs Hodge brought on the next group of classes who planted the remaining daffodil bulbs. A very enjoyable afternoon for the Rotarians, despite the blisters, great fun for the children, and if you are passing Hunter High School in Spring try to remember to look at the hillside to view the host of daffodils planted by the pupils.