Raising Funds for Beehives

Hailey Loucks (L) and Isabel Gabriel at their Bakesale earlier this month – Cyndi Brast photo

Hailey Loucks and Isabel Gabriel from the high school Community Projects class, are raising money to install beehives in the community garden out San Juan Valley Road. As part of their fundraising effort, they have organized a movie night for Friday, March 28th at the Grange, starting at 6:30pm and will be showing the moving “Queen of the Sun“, a movie that helps raise awareness about the plight of bees in our country and around the world.

“We hope that everyone attending our movie night will donate so that we can order supplies and bees for the community garden”  they said.

Their mentor for the project, Cyndi Brast, shares this timeline for what Hailey and Isabel have done and are doing for their project:

1. Presentation at the Grange (Earlier this month) This was so they could get backing from the Grange to use the building on March 28 to show their movie without having to pay a rental fee.
2. Bake sale at Marketplace (Earlier this month) to raise money to pay the licensing fee for a public screening of the movie Queen of the Sun (they had to raise $100).
3. Movie screening (March 28) at the Grange. They will be asking for donations to raise enough money to purchase the bee hive hardware and to buy a package of bees and a queen. They will also be collecting signatures for a petition to ban neonicotinoid pesticides in the county and making the signatures available to the county council.
4. Purchase beehive hardware (1st week of April) and order honey bees.
5. Assemble and paint bee hive parts.
6. Deliver – When honey bees arrive at post office (early May) they will take them to the Community Garden and put them in the hive.
7. They’re done! 🙂

See more about the upcoming movie night on their Facebook Page.

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