CMS Outdoor Classroom Project
For the past two years, Rotarians have lent a hand at the Carson Middle School. A remote part of the school grounds is being converted into an outdoor classroom.
The section of the grounds has served as a drainage pond used during heavy rainfall, catching water coming off the playground and ball field above it. CMS middle school teachers started working on it in 2018 and enlisted Rotary help on the past two Rotary at Work days in late April.
Trash was collected, growing weeds were cut down and debris was hauled off, making way for further future development of the site.


Rotarians tackle the over-grown weeds and brush to turn the area into an outdoor classroom (below).


Labyrinth Enterprises Founder Robert Ferré remembers it fondly as the first one installed by his team of all-female assistants. Its pattern is an 8-circuit design by John Ridder, from Ferré's own modifications of the labyrinth pattern in the Chartres Cathedral in Paris, a Christian symbol dating back to the Middle Ages.