Pictured are Pingree volunteers and Rosebud residents at a pow-wow last year.
The annual Pingree service trip to South Dakota left on June 26 for the Rosebud Reservation. Participants returned on July 6.
This year's group of students included Kaitlyn O'Connell, Kevin St. Pierre, Ariana Twomey, Samantha Jones, Emma Phippen, Rebekah Scharfe, Sabrina Zikianda, Bobby Adam, Will Walfield, Kanav Kathuria, Jake Gilfix, Kelly Shaw, Victoria DaMore, Elle Martins, Andrew Dixon, Sam Day, and Lily Sabatini.
They were accompanied by history teacher Anna McCoy, Director of Athletics Alan McCoy, Adam Logan '08, Colin Desko '09, Sam Mathey '04 and science teacher Kathy Karch.
The volunteers worked at the Parmelee Boys and Girls Club (swimming, fishing, playing basketball), the Spotted Tail Crisis Center (performing household chores from making lunch to doing laundry, while also supervising the kids there, all of whom are in "emergency placement" prior to being moved to foster care), Wanbli Juvenille Detention Center, Antelope Pow-wow grounds, and also tended to any sort of community needs such as lawn mowing, painting, etc.
While there, they also hiked in the Badlands, participated in a sweatlodge, attended the Veterans Day powwow, visited with Anna McCoy's former South Dakota State University advisor, Valerian Three Irons, and swam in the Neobrara River.
