Silver Lake Neighborhood Council To Decide Fate of Community-Based Ecology Education

Update:  The Silver Lake Neighborhood Council approved a grant of $1333.33 to help fund Full Circle in neighborhood schools. Wildwoods is doing further fundraising to find the $1,500 still needed.

Earlier: The Wildwoods Foundation provides school-based training about water issues in local schools.

This fall has been a tough one for Wildwoods.

Budget issues kept it from delivering programs at and at the new Environmental Studies Magnet at Thomas Starr King Middle School.

Thanks to grants from Dwight Stuart Youth Fund and from Tom LaBonge Wildwoods will again be offering its "Full Circle" programs at these schools.

According to Dwain Wilson of Wildwoods:

Full Circle is a more intensive, 8-week program built around the idea that ecology can serve as a model for human communities and the principles that govern nature's eco-systems are just as important to the social fabric of our community, e.g., interdependence, diversity and sustainability.

Wilson says that there's still a small funding gap--and the Foundation is asking for some help from the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council.

The amount is $2,000 to be exact.

That item will be among the many Wednesday night when the Neighborhood Council meets at 1511 Micheltorena Street.

Click here to see a full meeting agenda, which includes an update on the still probable move to postpone Neighborhood Council elections to 2014.

The Public Safety Committee of the SLNC will meet Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Living Room at 3531 Sunset Boulevard.

Click here to see that agenda.