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Bryce Engle |
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C. Bryce Engle, has volunteered for over a year leading the greenhouse program for students at McCord Renaissance Middle School. He is working with students in special education, art and science classes to incorporate environmental, plant and nursery lessons into hands-on learning experiences. Engle is also working with volunteer students and teachers on a plan to landscape Habitat for Humanity homes being built in Benton Harbor. He has advanced Master Gardener certification from Michigan State University and has licenses for nurseries, pesticide applications, pools and spas, boilers, asbestos removal and residential building from the State of Michigan. He is also a landscape design critic with the National Council of State Garden clubs. His bachelor's degree from Western Michigan University is in history, political science and economics. Engle is retired after serving as director of buildings and grounds for 25 years at South Haven and Buchanan Public Schools. He also served in the U.S. Navy as an electronics fire control (missiles) specialist. His other volunteer work has included working on the Bainbridge Township Recycling Committee; president of the Sister Lakes Athletic Association; landscape and carpentry work for the Safe Shelter in Berrien County; building outdoor education facilities at the Van Buren Intermediate School District Learning Center; landscape and remodeling work for the Van Buren County Homeless Shelter in Decatur; helping construct athletic field concession stands for the Watervliet and Dowagiac schools; Gardner School Restoration Project in Buchanan; Hartford City Planning Commission: Hartford Jaycees, Van Buren County Volunteers in Probation mentoring program and landscape work for the Hartford United Methodist Church. His wife Sandra, is a retired teacher from Dowagiac Union Schools and they have two daughters, Tristan, Director of Golf Operations for the Dupont County Country Club in Wilmington, DE and Meghan, a high school art teacher in San Jose, CA. |
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