Youth spotlight: Quincy students turn raw materials into legacy for Quincy hospital
Quincy students with one of the trees they chose as part of a project that eventually turned into a tribute to the old Quincy Valley Medical Center in the new QVMC.
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Students in Quincy High School’s advanced construction class show off their handiwork, a table built from the pine trees that once grew outside the Quincy Valley Medical Center.
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The top shows the craftsmanship Quincy students put into the legacy project for the Quincy hospital.
COURTESY PHOTO/NICK HEUKER
QUINCY — The old Quincy Valley Medical Center had a few trees next to the parking lot, including three pine trees planted in – well, back in the day, not long after the hospital was built in the late 1950s. The way the new hospital had to fit on the lot meant they were in the way, and they had to come down.
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