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COUNTRY PARKS ADOPTION SCHEME LAUNCHED

PARTICIPATION IN THE THE COMMUNITY YOUTH CLUB'S (CYC) ACTIVE

AND SERVES AS A GOOD COUNTRY PARKS ADOPTION SCHEME IS COMMENDABLE

COMMUNITY INDICATION OF THEIR HIGH SENSE OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND SPIRIT.

AND

AGRICULTURE DIRECTOR OF THE THESE REMARKS WERE MADE BY

MEMBERS FISHERIES, DR LAWRENCE LEE, WHEN ADDRESSING MORE THAN 500 CYC

PARKS ADOPTION AT THE LAUNCHING CEREMONY OF THE 1990/91 CYC COUNTRY SCHEME AT THE TAI TONG MANAGEMENT CENTRE OF TODAY (SATURDAY).

THE TAI LAM COUNTRY PARK

COUNTRYSIDE ENVIRONMENT

DR LEE SAID APART FROM CARING FOR THE AND KEEPING THE COUNTRY PARKS BETTER PLACES FOR VISITORS TO ENJOY, THE CYC MEMBERS WOULD ALSO SET GOOD EXAMPLES TO OTHER ON HOW THE PUBLIC COULD HELP TO KEEP OUR COUNTRY GREENER FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY.

USE AND VISITORS

PARKS CLEANER AND

FISHERIES

AIMS ΤΟ PROMOTE AND TO PROVIDE THROUGH COMMUNITY THE

THE SCHEME, JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE AGRICULTURE AND DEPARTMENT (AFD) AND THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT (ED), AWARENESS OF COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVATION AMONG STUDENTS

OF SERVING STUDENTS WITH OPPORTUNITIES VOLUNTARY WORK IN COUNTRY PARKS.

WHEN THE SCHEME WAS FIRST INTRODUCED EARLY LAST SCHOOLS JOINED AND ADOPTED FIVE COUNTRY PARKS.

YEAR, ONLY

10

YEARS, IT

IN

"OWING TO THE SUCCESS OF THE SCHEME IN THE PAST TWO HAS NOW BEEN EXPANDED AND ATTRACTED 49 PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS CURRENT YEAR AND THEIR STUDENTS WILL BE ASSIGNED TO LOOK AFTER THE COUNTRY PARKS OF ABERDEEN, TAI TAM, SAI KUNG EAST, SAI KUNG WEST, SHAN, SHING MUN, PLOVER COVE, PAT SIN LENG, TAI MO SHAN AND TAI DR LEE SAID.

FACILITIES

STUDENTS WILL TAKE PART IN VOLUNTARY SERVICES COLLECTION, GRASS CUTTING, TREE TENDING, TREE PLANTING IN THE PARKS.

THE

10

KAM

LAM,

"

SUCH AS LITTER AND MAINTENANCE

THEY WILL ALSO HOLIDAYS, URGING THE PUBLIC PREVENT HILL FIRE.

PATROL ΤΟ

THE

RECREATIONAL POPULAR KEEP THE COUNTRY

SITES ON

PARKS CLEAN AND

BACH

PARTICIPATING

SIX SENIOR STUDENTS FROM APPOINTED AS JUNIOR PARK WARDENS AFTER UNDERGOING

WILL AND CONSERVATION PRACTICAL COUNTRYSIDE STUDENTS IN VOLUNTARY COUNTRY PARK WORK.

DR

LEE SAID THE

PARTICIPATING

SCHOOL WILL BE BASIC TRAINING ON LEAD THEIR FELLOW

WOULD STUDENTS

SOON HELP

CONDUCTING A COUNTRY PARKS VISITOR OPINION SURVEY.

"PARTICIPATION OF THE

THE UNDERSTAND ΤΟ

INTEREST AND VARIETY TO THEIR

CYC

IN

WILL ADD MEMBERS

THE SURVEY

PROVIDE A GOOD WORK AND WILL

PARK VIEWS

NEEDS OF COUNTRY AND

HE ADDED.

OPPORTUNITY VISITORS AND WILL HELP US IN PLANNING FOR EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES TO MEET THE DEMAND OF OUR COMMUNITY,

/DR LEE