Sheet L-4 · The People

More than twenty volunteers

Friends, family and fellow scouts did the digging and planting. The school approved it, two local suppliers provided the plants and stone, and donors raised $17,000.

Volunteers: 20+
Raised: $17,000
Troop: 176
Suppliers: 2

Seven people gathered around a boulder in the newly finished median: two teenagers and five crew members in grey work shirts, one seated on the boulder, with the MLK school building behind them. — Volunteers and crew around one of the four boulders, March 21, 2026.

Who made it happen

Thank you

VolunteersMore than twenty friends, family members and scouts who cleared, dug, set boulders and planted over four days.
Troop 176Samuel's Scout troop, its leaders and its project committee.
The schoolMartin Luther King Jr. High School, Riverside: Principal Dr. Leanne Iacuone, Athletic Director Amanda Chann, Football Head Coach Jason McMains and Head Track and Field Coach Mathew Vasel, all named on the plaque.
PlantsParadise Garden Center, Riverside.
BouldersSouthwest Boulder & Stone, Fallbrook.
DonorsEveryone who gave toward the $17,000 raised for the project.

On the job

Between jobs

Two volunteers standing on the grass by the parking lot, one holding a rake handle and one a shovel, with others resting on a cooler. — Shovels and rakes, March 21, 2026.

A group of teenage volunteers standing on the grass beside the road, drinking water and talking. — Water break.

Three people posing on a white mini excavator in the school parking lot, one in a wide-brimmed hat and one in work gloves. — Volunteers on the mini excavator.

Two smiling teenagers crouched beside the blue plaque in the gravel median at golden hour. — At the plaque, May 2026.

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