Coalition to Save the Elms Manitoba Inc., Winnipeg: $3,540 to involve 10 youth in a tree-banding campaign along Winnipeg’s boulevards and riverbank corridors to protect them from cankerworm infestations. Youth will also plant trees and attend information workshops on the prevention and identification of Dutch Elm disease and other tree pests and diseases.

Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface (CUSB)–le comite environnemental, Winnipeg: $759 to involve 20 youth in a community garden project making raised garden beds and planting vegetables and herbs.

Dakota Plains School: $1,880 to involve 20 youth in a recycling and beautification project planting flowers, tending to the community garden, recycling and participating in community cleanups.

Discovery Children’s Centre Inc., Winnipeg: $3,765 to involve 250 youth in a Return to Earth project establishing a flower bed, planting fruit trees and participating in recycling and composting activities.

École Crane, Winnipeg: $968 to involve 25 youth in a Protect Our Grounds project planting shrubs, native perennials and maintaining vegetation through weeding, watering and spreading mulch.

École élémentaire Notre Dame de Lourdes: $3,000 for 120 youth to help with a schoolyard expansion and enhancement project by planting grass and a shelterbelt bordering the school.

École Riverbend Community School, Winnipeg: $630 to involve 10 youth in a community cleanup picking up litter and weeding and watering flower beds to enhance and beautify the schoolyard.

École Secondaire Kelvin, Winnipeg: $290 for 25 youth to organically plant and grow herbs and vegetables with all produce donated to Winnipeg Harvest.

Fort Whyte Centre, Winnipeg: $3,450 to host a Youth Action for Biodiversity project involving over 300 youth to clean the forest and conduct a survey to assess the volume of aspen trees in the area. Youth will also construct and locate bat houses, transplant bluestem to grasslands and participate in a wild flower stomp.

Friends of the Garden, St. Claude: $2,970 to involve 140 youth in a community garden extending one kilometre along Canadian Pacific Railway tracks. Youth will prepare flowers by seed for a theme garden depicting the town symbol and plant trees, shrubs and flowers, identify and label flora as well as maintain the compost and garden.

Glenway School, Dominion City: $1,325 to support 25 youth in Preserving and Knowing Our Ecosystems by creating a walking trail through agricultural, forest and wetland ecosystems after clearing brush and laying stone pathways.

Kildonan East Collegiate, Winnipeg: $2,900 for 100 youth to create a community garden based on the medicine wheel. Students from Kildonan East, River East and Miles Macdonell collegiates will plant wild sage, cedar, sweet grass, wild flowers and various native herbs.

Maison Chapelle Inc., St. Malo: $4,300 in assistance for six youth to create a community garden with raised garden beds, a compost area and a rainwater drip system.

Murdoch Mackay Collegiate Institute, Winnipeg: $2,860 to involve 50 youth in a project seeding and fertilizing grass, planting trees, pruning shrubs and a general cleanup of the school yard.

Niverville Collegiate Institute: $3,810 for a schoolyard beautification project involving 15 youth to plant trees and shrubs and install limestone pathways, picnic benches and garbage receptacles.

O.V. Jewitt School, Winnipeg: $482 to support five special needs students in the creation a prairie garden including flowerbeds, prairie grasses and wild flowers native to Manitoba.

Rural Municipality of St. Francois Xavier: $5,000 to involve 50 youth in a variety of environmental activities to celebrate the municipality’s 125^th anniversary.

Ryerson School-Age Center Incorporated, Winnipeg: $665 to involve 40 youth in a natural insect control project using a purple martin birdhouse and citronella plants.

South Oaks School, Grunthal: $700 to involve 340 youth in a schoolyard enhancement project planting trees and cleaning the schoolyard.

Southwood School, Winkler: $616 for 100 youth to work on a schoolyard restoration project replacing damaged trees, planting shrubs and perennials, and preparing mulch garden beds.

Spence Neighbourhood Association Inc., Winnipeg: $2,160 supporting 50 youth in a community garden education project harvesting organically grown vegetables and preparing gardens and compost areas for the winter.

Strathcona School, Winnipeg: $1,325 to help 300 youth in a Children’s Pride garden project preparing garden beds, spreading soil and planting trees, shrubs and perennials.

Sturgeon Creek Association, Winnipeg: $1,550 to involve 30 youth in a riparian awareness and enhancement project along the Assiniboine River. This includes biological assessments using vegetation, bird, fish and dragonfly data.

.St. George Rainbow Lighthouse, Winnipeg: $530 for 70 youth to participate in a Habits for a Healthy Environment project including a community cleanup, recycling and composting, building bird feeders and making cloth lunch bags.

St. Vital Mustangs Football Club, Winnipeg: $4,630 to support 200 youth in a cleanup of debris and in increased riverbank stability by planting native trees along the west bank of Maple Grove Park.

The Rotary Club of Charleswood, Winnipeg: $1,640 for 250 youth to plant trees, enhance walking trails and participate in cleanup events in the Assiniboine Forest.

The Salvation Army Multicultural Family Centre, Winnipeg: $515 in support of 120 youth to fabricate cloth lunch bags and mini-terrariums promoting recycling, participate in community and riverbank cleanups and construct birdhouses and feeders.

Wellington Alive Residents Group, Winnipeg: $850 to help 10 youth in removing debris and cleaning the community.

Whyte Ridge School–Gardening Committee, Winnipeg: $1,213 for 500 youth to grow flowers from seed and transplant them to schoolyard flowerbeds as part of a community beautification and enhancement project.

Wingham Colony, Elm Creek: $2,335 for a shelterbelt tree-planting project helping to eliminate soil erosion involving 10 youth.

Winnipeg Boys and Girls Clubs Inc.: $3,075 supporting 10 youth in creating environmental education demonstration sites at the Fort Whyte Centre including community gardens, composting, vermin-composting and an aquaculture model.

Winnipeg South Minor Baseball Association Inc.: $1,000 to involve 70 youth in a tree and shrub planting project at Charleswood Place and Berwick Park.

Aghaming Community Council: $1,175 to support 10 youth in a nature trail enhancement project spreading limestone and creating interpretive signage identifying tree and plant species.

Black River First Nation: $2,000 for 60 youth to monitor the impacts of climate change on eastern Manitoban forests. Youth will learn how to measure and monitor air temperature, relative humidity, soil temperature and pH and moisture levels.

Friends of Beausejour Daylily Park: $1,865 supporting 70 youth from the 249 Beausejour Air Cadets and the First Beausejour Scouting Group as they prepare and mulch garden beds, plant shrubs and fruit trees, and establish bluebird houses in the American Hemerocallis Daylily Display Garden.

Pauingassi School: $1,700 to involve 125 youth in a waste-minimization project constructing and placing garbage receptacles, establishing a recycling depot and participating in community and schoolyard cleanups.

Sagkeeng Community School, Fort Alexander: $1,740 for 30 youth to help in the creation of a community walking trail by clearing brush and debris, and installing garbage receptacles.

Whiteshell Colony School, River Hills: $1,000 to assist 20 youth in a Tree Care for Youth project that will establish outdoor learning centres. They will also participate in planting and maintaining trees and shrubs and designing a brochure on tree awareness.

Wings of Power, Pine Falls: $1,656 to involve 10 youth in a community garden project by planting herbs, vegetables and flowers, maintaining a garden and participating in composting activities.

Dauphin River School: $500 to support 20 youth in a community beautification project collecting and recycling litter and tending flowerbeds.

Lake St. Martin First Nation: $2,065 to involve 30 youth in various activities to increase awareness on environmental issues such as water quality, tree identification and transplanting, gardening, composting and recycling.

Matheson Island Community Council: $1,075 for 15 youth to pick up litter and debris and locate recycling bins and garbage receptacles along the beach and throughout the community as part of a Beach Enhancement and Recycling Upgrades project.

Peguis First Nation Training and Employment: $1,449 assisting 45 youth in a community cleanup project removing debris and litter from drainage ditches within the community.

Town of Teulon: $450 helping 20 youth to remove deadfall from Crescent Creek and install interpretative signage along a 2.5-kilometre walking trail situated at the Teulon-Rockwood Green Acres Park.

Barren Lands First Nation, Brochet: $1,625 to support 40 youth as they construct and paint wooden garbage and recycling receptacles, as well as participate in workshops that provide hands-on activities relating to the benefits of recycling and a clean community.

Cross Lake First Nation: $2,795 for a community beautification and enhancement project. Twenty-eight young people will pick up litter and debris throughout the community.

Leaf Rapids Recycling Program: $2,734 for 75 youth to grow plants, vegetables and fruits in the community greenhouse, build composters, participate in recycling activities and clean up debris throughout the community.

Norway House Cree Nation Education Centre: $3,015 for five youth to create recycling posters to help increase public awareness and establish a secondary recycling depot for collection and sorting of recyclables.

Shamattawa First Nation: $1,150 to involve 300 youth in a waste minimization project through a school recycling program and community and shoreline cleanup activities.

St. Theresa Point First Nation Elementary School: $2,540 to help 20 youth create a park-like area by preparing school grounds for the transplantation of trees and to seed grass.

Thompson Boys and Girls Club: $1,400 to support 25 youth as they plant up to 65,000 seedlings and receive educational and field experience in sustainable forestry practices. Youth will also clean up debris at various sites including Setting Lake and Paint Lake Provincial Parks and along the shorelines of Mid Lake and the Burntwood River.

West Lynn Heights School, Lynn Lake: $815 for a project in which 30 youth will try to bring back woody plant growth on a 300-hectare deposit of mine tailings. Youth will also participate in germinating seeds to produce seedlings, monitoring growth of seedlings and testing soil nutrients and pH levels.

Community Youth Resource Centre, Flin Flon: $2,325 to assist in a walking trail revitalization project. Ten youth will clean and prepare the trail for a resting area consisting of benches, rock people and native flowers and trees.

Opaskwayak Cree Nation–Social Development: $3,173 to help 60 youth develop flowerbeds and remove debris along riverbanks and walking trails.

Baldur School: $3,750 for 100 youth to create park-like green space including flowerbeds and trees. Maintenance duties will be included in the life-skills component of the special needs program.

Camperville Community Council: $3,485 for 12 youth to construct and locate waste receptacles, birdhouses and waterfowl nesting structures throughout the community.

City of Brandon Community Services: $1,115 supporting 160 youth in various environmental activities to increase awareness on environmental issues such as recycling, composting, soil protection, water conservation and green-space awareness. Other activities include community cleanup, flower planting and tree identification.

Crane River Recreation Committee: $1,357 to support 10 youth in a community cleanup by picking up debris and clearing brush in community parks and ditches.

Dauphin Joint Recreation Commission: $4,265 for 100 youth in the enhancement of Vermillion Park by developing a perch pond, establishing butterfly gardens and a recycling depot.

Duck Bay School: $805 for five youth to replace diseased Dutch elm trees with maple and ash trees and remove a weed called burdock from ditches within the community.

Hamiota Conservation Authority: $2,763 to assist 10 youth in building a viewing platform on the existing Rails to Trails walking train and to build birdhouses and plant trees.

Meadow Portage Community Council: $1,357 to involve three youth in a community cleanup by picking up debris along roadsides and creating awareness of their environment-related project.

Melita School: $2,172 supporting 296 youth in a Growing Green with Youth to establish flowerbeds, bird feeders, recycling bins, picnic tables and benches. The vegetables and flowers will be grown in the school’s greenhouse for transplanting to flowerbeds.

Nature Valley School, Wawanesa: $1,571 for 17 youth to enhance and beautify the village entrance of Dunrea. They will help create an eight-foot Christmas tree-like structure, containing 60 flower pots on the branches with a purple marten birdhouse located in the centre.

Pierson Environmental Group: $3,260 to support 25 youth in a Protecting Our Environment for the Future project planting and caring for trees and educating the agricultural community, using a hand-held GPS system, on how to reduce the amount of applied chemicals and fertilizers.

Sapotaweyak Cree Nation, Pelican Rapids: $200 for 30 youth to repair garbage receptacles and participate in schoolyard, lake and riverside cleaning.

Spence Lake Recreation Committee: $1,357 for six youth to plant and water trees, shrubs and flowers, construct bird houses, and clean ditches and roadsides.

Tootinaowaziibeeng Treaty Reserve–Anishinabe Health Program: $1,398 to support 116 youth in a recycling-awareness project including colouring, poster and essay-writing contests on recycling to be displayed at the community health fair. Youth will also participate in a schoolyard cleanup.

Town of Shoal Lake–Lakeview Park Board: $4,650 for 45 youth to clean up debris and plant basswood and black ash trees in Lakeview Park.

Town of Virden: $2,097 to help five youth transform a vacant lot into a public green space by landscaping and planting flowers and shrubs.

Vincent Massey School–Environmental Club, Brandon: $1,170 for 10 youth to create a wooden trellis, and plant and maintain native prairie bushes, grasses and trees.

Whistling Wind School, Glenboro: $1,275 to help 10 youth create a 1.8-kilometre walking trail. They will also clean up and recycle debris and establish resting areas consisting of benches, trees and shrubs.