Project GreenTouch leaves volunteers tired but content

 

Friendly banter over steaming cups of morning coffee, busy shovels, scratching rakes, crunching brush…and smiles of satisfaction at the end of a day well spent.

 

East Central Energy’s (ECE) Project GreenTouch left 60 volunteers tired but content on May 2 after they spent the day sprucing up Father Hennepin State Park in Isle, MN and Pattison Park in Superior, WI.

 

ECE members and employees participated in the 10^th annual event, completing chores such as raking, picking up trash, clearing brush, and at Father Hennepin Park, installing landscape timbers and a new sand surface for the beach play area.

 

Staff at both parks coordinated the projects and worked with the volunteers. ECE provided coffee and rolls in the morning and a tasty lunch at noon.

 

Project GreenTouch is a partnership between Minnesota’s Touchstone Energy cooperatives and the Minnesota State Park system. ECE’s GreenTouch sponsorship accents the importance the cooperative places on environmental stewardship and demonstrates its commitment to community and the other Touchstone Energy values of accountability, integrity and innovation.