Awards and achievements

These local students have recently distinguished themselves:

Lindsay M. Pattison, daughter of Brian and Theta Pattison of Altamont, and a junior at Hamilton College, is spending spring break with a volunteer group in San Ramon, Nicaragua. The students will work on an organic coffee farm and nature preserve. They are part of a Hamilton student organization, Global Volunteers, and will help with daily tasks on the coffee farm. The work will include planting trees used to shade coffee plants, trail maintenance, helping in the gardens, and possibly digging water pipes that will be used to irrigate a new cow barn and pasture. They’ll also spend two days working at a local primary school, where they’ll help the students paint a mural.

Pattison, a geosciences major at Hamilton, is a graduate of Emma Willard School;

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