среда, 14 марта 2012 г.

A transformation // Butterflies beautify Cabrini neighborhood

Chris Coleman held up a milkweed leaf and showed how the stripedcaterpillar feeds, pointing to the tiny holes on the leaf's surface.Then he explained the transformation of a caterpillar into astrikingly colored butterfly.

Coleman is not a botanist - at least not yet. He is a7-year-old from Cabrini-Green who has received a once-in-a-lifetimeopportunity to bring his crime-infested Near North Side neighborhoodsomething that is rarely found there.

Butterflies.Coleman and 450 other elementary students helped create abutterfly habitat in Near North Vocational High School's formerlylittered and weed-covered courtyard. They cleaned the area andplanted trees and …

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