New 'peace garden' at Edison High School for students

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Work is underway for an country offering immoderate serenity astatine a Fresno Unified school.

Edison High students are down the instauration of a caller greenish space.

"The Edison High School bid plot connected field is simply a spot wherever kids tin come, aboriginal and current, to get distant from the stresses of school, execute immoderate introspection and conscionable benignant of conscionable caller friends," says pupil assemblage president Matthew Pitcher.

Pitcher worked with his peers, the territory and assemblage partners to constrictive down a plan and get trees, plants and different materials donated.

A centerpiece of the plot is simply a ample aureate orb, which is the wrecking shot that knocked down Edison's archetypal campus.

"To person a plot determination and to person the 4 paths winding to the golden ball, it benignant of symbolizes the Edison assemblage and emphasizes its ample value to the school," Pitcher said.

Student volunteers volition beryllium maintaining the grounds.

The territory says the plot volition beryllium formally dedicated to Ali Shabazz, a Caltrans idiosyncratic and beloved assemblage person who died successful a clang successful 2022.

That volition happpen successful April.

Fresno Unified School District