Students flourish with help from multiple groups

Pictured standing from left at the Fort Scott Community Garden are Natalie Moyer with CHASE, students Ireland Quinney and Kaiden Quinney, mental health liaison Belinda Pitts, and school-based community health worker Heather Walker-Shepherd. Kneeling are Brad Girard, left, and Jorden Durkee with the CHASE program.

Marti Wells-Smith/Special to the Tribune

There is a special area at the Fort Scott Community Garden that is growing with the same care and attention that its student participants are experiencing. Several groups and organizations have banded together with the help of USD 234 Superintendent Destry Brown to provide needed resources for Bourbon County schools, families and students in need.

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Fort Scott High School students and siblings Kaiden and Irelyn Quinney are pictured at the Fort Scott Community Garden, where they are caring for a garden area with other students and school-based support personnel.

Marti Wells-Smith/Special to the Tribune