Jackson Elementary recently hosted an Environmental/Nature Night for students and their families at the school. Booths were set up in the school Cafeteria and Gym with community presenters from the Westchester Township History Museum; Dunes Learning Center; Porter County Parks and Recreation; Coffee Creek Watershed Conservancy, Inc.; Chesterton Feed and Garden; Taltree Arboretum; The Field Museum; Betty Richardson Puppets; Ben Blohm Wind & Weather Station and more donating their knowledge and time with students and the community.
Pictured at far right is Glenn Bradley of the Indiana Falconers Association talking with Jackson students, left to right, Sofia Teall, Matthew Carpentier, Nathaniel Carpentier, and Rebecca Carpentier about his four-year old female red-tailed hawk Hit Girl.
This school event was organized by Susan and Bonnie Swarner of the Izaak Walton League-Porter County Chapter.
