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Successful Trout Release FCPS Summer

Theresa Dardanell Food Service
Despite the Photo by Theresa Dardanell appreciation Program
steady rain on of nature,
May 17, 2018, and make The
Thurmont them owners Frederick
Middle School of the world County
(TMS) students so that they Public
released 145 have a real Schools
rainbow trout understanding (FCPS)
in Owen’s of their part Food
Creek, near the in how they and Nutrition Services Department
Covered Bridge influence is participating in the United States
in Roddy Road the whole
Park. This environment Department of Agriculture Summer
activity was around Food Service Program to provide free
the final part them.” breakfast and lunch at some local
of the Trout in The trout schools.
the Classroom release was The Summer Program that will be
project, in With the help of adult volunteers, Thurmont Middle only one in operation at Thurmont Elementary,
which students School students release trout in Owen’s Creek. part of the located at 805 E. Main Street in
raised trout activity that Thurmont, is available to all children
from eggs that were provided by the day. The students rotated through the age of eighteen years and under.
Department of Natural Resources four stations at the park. They The children do not have to be a
(DNR) and delivered to the school practiced casting a fly rod, went student at the school to participate and
in December. on a scavenger hunt, studied do not need to be accompanied by a
The sixth-grade students who various macroinvertebrate samples,
volunteered their time during the and participated in an ecology parent.
school day took care of the fish study comparing the classroom Please enter the side of the school
by monitoring the water quality, environment with the natural through the cafeteria doors.
feeding the trout, and cleaning the habitat of the trout. Stations were Free meals will be provided
tank until the fish were released in led by Mize, along with volunteer Mondays through Thursdays, through
May. Science teacher Susan Mize Chuck Dinkle, parent chaperones, August 16, with breakfast from 9:00-
said that the purpose of the project and members of the Potomac Valley 9:30 a.m., and lunch from 11:30 a.m.-
was to “give students a love and Fly Fishers Association. 12:30 p.m.