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School reaches out to Hispanic community
Published April 24, 2004
Jacksonville State University, through its Little River Field School, is reaching out to DeKalb County’s growing Hispanic population, field school director Pete Conroy said Friday.
Today at 9 a.m., JSU students will direct a Spanish-speaking hike through DeSoto State Park, starting at the nature center at 9 a.m.
“The more we reach out to the Latin American community, the more the region will get along,” Conroy said. “Language is such a big barrier. Jacksonville State really wants to reach out.”
Three teaching assistants – one from Paraguay, one from Mexico and another from El Salvador – will lead the hike, which Conroy hopes will open the beauty of Little River Canyon to a large part of Northeast Alabama’s population.
“This may be the first state program exclusively for Spanish-speaking people,” Conroy said. “We’re reaching out to DeKalb County’s Spanish-speaking population.”
Little River Field School’s future permanent home, just across Little River at Little River Falls, took another step toward reality this week when the first round of funding was released. Conroy said he got the word from NASA that $1.8 million was wired to Huntsville and then to JSU earlier this week.
According to Conroy, JSU has finished its environment work on the project, which will house the field school, the national park headquarters and a welcome center. Construction should begin in six months.
Two weeks ago, JSU and the National Parks Service began in-depth meetings dealing with such things as whose names will be on the sign and where each office will be located.
“We’re getting into it now,” Conroy said. “This is the fun part.”
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