Perrymont Middle School

Pocahontas 895 marks Earth Week with planting project

Pocahontas 895 marked Earth Week 2008 by helping some local students plant flowers in front of their school.

Three Pocahontas 895 staffers joined nine students and a science teacher in the planting project at Perrymont Middle School, located in Chesterfield County just a few miles from the parkway.

The group spent about an hour putting flowers and other bedding plants into a large garden area adjacent to the school’s bus loop.

Participating from Pocahontas 895 were: Bill Dale, operations and maintenance manager; Tim Arrington, finance manager; and Mary Ellin Arch, marketing and communications specialist.

“On behalf of Perrymont, I send my most heartfelt thanks for the work you three did today,” Principal Alice M. Rose, Ph.D., wrote in an email to the Pocahontas 895 crew after the planting was done.

Arch returned to Perrymont in early June to staff a station during the school's Environmental Field Day.

Pocahontas 895 plans to do more community service at Perrymont, a public alternative middle school that offers remedial and individualized instruction to about 90 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders.

“Perrymont is a really neat little school that does fine work with kids who need extra help with their studies,” said Arch, who met the principal and took a tour of the school during an outreach visit in February.

“Working with Perrymont is a great way for us to be involved in our community and to reinforce Transurban’s commitment to environmental sustainability.”