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Poultney DREAM Quarterly Report June – August 2015 Greetings from DREAM! This quarter, youth were provided with a trusty DREAM staff member to provide fun, enriching activities. The group had an exciting culminating event and an overall very successful summer! Youth look forward to starting back up in the fall with their mentors on campus! Highlights from the quarter include: • Poultney welcomed office staff members Sarah Caliendo and Ariana Walk to run programming for the summer! • The summer was started off right with a community kick-off picnic! Some mentees even brought extended family members! • Poultney joined DREAM’s Hickory Street program in a trip to Buttermilk Falls, a waterfall and swimming hole in Ludlow, VT. They had fun splashing in the water and even found some fish in the water! • Poultney also came together with the Willowbrook program of Bennington for a day playing in the park. They even took a dip in the stream that runs behind the park! • Poultney wrapped up summer programming with a culminating trip to see Penguins of Madagascar at the movies, followed by a trip bowling and then ended with what they’ve been waiting for all summer, frozen yogurt! Weekly Activities: • The summer was started off right with a community kick-off picnic! Some mentees even brought extended family members! The group enjoyed conversation while having some cheese puffs and gourmet turkey wraps! • The group had a nature walk scavenger hunt. After collecting all of the items, the
nature was used to create beautiful masks! They had also made cheerio bird feeders and ooblek!
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This quarter, the group baked for a bake sale and then sold items in downtown Rutland, VT in order to save for a trip to the bowling alley! They raised $103.00! After the bake sale, the group joined Hickory Street program in a trip to Buttermilk Falls, a beautiful spot in nature in Ludlow, VT Poultney joined Hickory Street and Willowbrook programs for a trip to Bennington’s Molly Stark Park. They had a picnic, played games at the playground, and even went for a dip in a stream!
Office: 30 Community Drive, South Burlington, VT | Mail: P.O. Box 361, Winooski, VT 05404 │ (802) 338-8979 | info@dreamprogram.org
dreamprogram.org The DREAM Program @DREAMprogram
The Village Mentoring Organization
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The group wrapped up the summer with a culminating trip to Rutland where they first went to the movies, then bowling, and then finally frozen yogurt!
Thank you for your ongoing support of DREAM. If you would like additional or more detailed information, please contact me by email or by phone. You can always look back at past reports or other programs’ reports by going to: http://dreamprogram.org/mentoring/vermont/local-program-reports.
DREAM big, Tiffany Trowbridge-Bernard VYT AmeriCorps VISTA Program Empowerment Director tiffany@dreamprogram.org 802.681.3982
Office: 30 Community Drive, South Burlington, VT | Mail: P.O. Box 361, Winooski, VT 05404 │ (802) 338-8979 | info@dreamprogram.org