Duarte’s Promise Plants Oaks on Duarte

Trail in Honor of AmeriCorps Week

DUARTE, CA, May 5, 2011 – Members of Duarte’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth will help 30 volunteers from Keller Williams Real Estate plant native oak trees along the Duarte multi-purpose trail and around the 102 year-old Oak Avenue Bridge. The service project will take place at 8:30 a.m. on May 12 in conjunction with National AmeriCorps Week (May 14-21) and Keller Williams Real Estate RED Day (Renew, Energize and Donate) community service initiative.

AmeriCorps provides opportunities for more than 80,000 citizens across the nation, including seven AmeriCorps Fellows serving at Duarte City Hall, Duarte Public Safety, Duarte Teen Center, Santa Anita Family YMCA, and the Foothill Unity Center. In this contract year alone, fellows have provided over 8,000 hours of service to Duarte and its surrounding areas.  AmeriCorps members of Duarte have also earned more than $100,000 in Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards to help pay for college or pay back student loans since the program’s inception in 2000.

Mayor Tzeitel Paras-Caracci, in proclaiming AmeriCorps Week in Duarte, urged citizens to thank AmeriCorps members and alumni for their service and to find ways to give back to their communities.

For more information about AmeriCorps opportunities in Duarte and Duarte’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth, contact: Deputy City Manager, Karen Herrera at (626) 357-7931, ext. 221.

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