LEOs’ project aids injured raptors

Late last month the Vergennes LEOs Club completed — with plenty of help from Vergennes Lions Club volunteering time and expertise and community businesses’ support — its major project for the school year. The LEOs, a community service youth club sponsored by the Vergennes Lions, designed, raised funds for, and built a flight cage for injured birds at the Otter Creek Wildlife Refuge in Addison.

The latest project for the Vergennes Leos club, a civic-minded youth group sponsored by the Vergennes Lions Club, will help aging and/or disabled city residents more easily pursue their passion for gardening, and it’s also teaching carpentry skills to clu … (read more)

Over the past 10 months, a group of Vergennes-area teens have built a playground at the John Graham Shelter, installed an owl barn at the Otter Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, worked at book sales and fish dinners, rake the grounds at D.A.R. John St … (read more)