Nothing Teaches Like Success

by Charlie Sowell, Greenville News

“Lake Conestee Nature Park has been one of Greenville’s environmental success stories for many years now, mostly because of a partnership between local activists and an increasingly aware business community.

A facile and educated business community, one that has seen the dollar value of a clean environment, coupled with sweat equity put in by volunteers who spend lots of hours digging and scraping; sawing and nailing; pushing and cajoling- get things done.

Sometimes, you get the best of both, like the 33 volunteers from Synterra Corp. who donated a day of blisters to making the park a little better for visitors on a recent Saturday.

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