School Garden Project Strikes Again! This time the lucky school is Thunderbird Elementary, located in the northeast corner of Vancouver. On February 24th, the grounds on the east side of this inner-city school, described as “a “mud-pit” by one of the school’s teachers in a Vancouver Sun article, began their transformation into a beautiful school garden. Catriona Gordon, the School Gardens coordinator for SPEC (Society Promoting Environmental Conservation), is the driving force behind the project, but SPEC is not doing it alone – it is a true community effort, as it should be. It all started when a student at Tupper Secondary School saw the school’s plea for help in the news, and decided to do something about it. He spoke to his woodworking teacher Russ Evans, who contacted SPEC, and that was the start of many planning sessions with Thunderbird Principal Henry Peters and teacher Birgid Lehmann. By the end of the day on February 24th, the students of Thunderbird and Tupper had