Please Note: January meeting will be held at the Middle Trinity Groundwater Conservation District and not at AgriLife.

Breaking into the schoolyard – How three determined women wrote and were awarded grants, solicited in-kind donations, twisted the arms of children and husbands, provided strength-training opportunities for Lingleville athletes, and turned a teeny rural school construction zone into a campus-wide outdoor education living laboratory.

About the Speakers

Mrs. Emily Martin Howle is a Lingleville ISD Alumni and has held several positions in business management and the tax preparation industry over the last 15 years. She has a heart for service in many areas of life. She is very invested supporting the education of youth and adults. She founded a Parent Teacher Organization at Lingleville ISD to become a free-standing State and Federally recognized 501c3 Non-Profit Organization to be able to expand and enrich the educational opportunities for all ages associated with Lingleville ISD. Mrs. Martin Howle has a love for gardening as did the generations of gardeners in her family. She is active in all areas of gardening and preservation of goods grown. She looks forward to the learning opportunities that the schoolyard habitats and community garden can bring to our community and the future for our youth in a love and value for our environment.

Christine Whitefield is an aquatic scientist of 27 years with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. She obtained her Master of Science in Biology from Tarleton State University. Her focus of study has been on the water quality issues in the North Bosque River Watershed. She has written publications and assisted in the Total Maximum Daily Load Phosphorus Regulations from research beginnings, to implementation, to post findings. She also served as an Environmental Investigator for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. She is an avid gardener and nature lover. She recently adopted two young boys with whom she encourages the love of nature by including them in her garden and landscaping projects. She believes in community outreach, education and involvement to foster a sense of ownership of the environment and its ecological systems. Her goal is to create and maintain community gardens and other nature areas in a long term effort to educate the students and surrounding community in environmental awareness and ecological sustainability.

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