Grade 8 students were blessed to have the opportunity to work as 'earth-keepers' on Friday Nov 8th. Students worked with staff from the City of Woodstock and the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority to plant 100 shrubs. Shrubs were native species and will provide the understory, as well as erosion and flood control, for the reforested areas in west Woodstock that were severely damaged by the emerald ash borer.