{"id":1584,"date":"2013-02-13T14:26:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T14:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdooredguys.wordpress.com\/?page_id=1584"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:59:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:59:55","slug":"wrigley-corners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/our-programs\/nature-center-programs\/wrigley-corners\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrigley Corners"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Centre<\/h2>\n<p>Wrigley Corners is a retrofitted\u00a0two-room school that has been used as an Outdoor and Environmental Education Centre (OEEC) for the last thirty years by the Waterloo Region District School Board. The\u00a0two acres surrounding the Building have been naturalized into grassland, pond and forest habitats, making it a diverse living classroom.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1620\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1620\" class=\"wp-image-1620 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2013\/02\/wrigley-corners-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2013\/02\/wrigley-corners-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2013\/02\/wrigley-corners-165x124.jpeg 165w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2013\/02\/wrigley-corners-100x75.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/files\/2013\/02\/wrigley-corners.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wrigley Corners<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At Wrigley Corners, we band birds, feed chickadees, run simulation activities and explore the ecology of our local environment. We have some of the region&#8217;s greatest biodiversity and most spectacular scenery\u00a0on our doorstep. It is just waiting\u00a0to be experienced by another generation of students.<\/p>\n<h2>The Staff<\/h2>\n<p>The Centre is staffed by Outdoor and Environmental Education Specialist, Levi Moore (BES, M.Sc.).<\/p>\n<p>Levi has spent considerable time in the field, working as a Wildlife Biologist, enjoys bringing this experience to the\u00a0activities offered at Wrigley Corners and is a huge fan of citizen science!<\/p>\n<h2>Programs<\/h2>\n<p>We offer a wide variety of in-person field trips at our centre.\u00a0 Requests for field trips are taken in June for the following year.\u00a0 We have a variety of virtual programs that are available upon request but priority is given to in person trips to maximize the use of our site.<\/p>\n<h2>Contact<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Levi_Moore@wrdsb.ca\">Levi_Moore@wrdsb.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Location<\/h2>\n<p>2366 Spragues Rd., Ayr Ontario, N0B 1E0<\/p>\n<p>The centre is located about 10 minutes south of Cambridge along Spragues Rd., halfway to Paris. Because the site has limited natural amenities, we use many local public properties for our programs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre Wrigley Corners is a retrofitted\u00a0two-room school that has been used as an Outdoor and Environmental Education Centre (OEEC) for the last thirty years by the Waterloo Region District School Board. The\u00a0two acres surrounding the Building have been naturalized into grassland, pond and forest habitats, making it a diverse living classroom. At Wrigley Corners, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\" role=\"complementary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/our-programs\/nature-center-programs\/wrigley-corners\/\"><strong>Read more about<\/strong> <cite>Wrigley Corners<\/cite> &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":26079,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-centre","category-wrigley-corners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1584\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}