Members of several campus organizations at San Marcos Academy joined forces recently to “adopt” a local park that has a meaningful connection to the school.
Led by NHS President Victoria Polhemus, the student leaders arranged with the City of San Marcos to adopt CPT Paul Peña Park in the Hills of Hays subdivision on Crystal River Parkway. The park was named in memory of Paul Peña, who was killed in action in Afghanistan January 19, 2010. Peña was a 2000 graduate of San Marcos Academy and a 2004 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
For their initial visit, the students met at the park March 27 to familiarize themselves with the area and hand out fliers about their project to residents of the neighborhood. The fliers included an online survey to gather information about how residents currently use the park and how they would like to see it grow.
