Highway Cleanup Fall 2012

Every year around this time, our school always gives back to the community and cleans up a section of the highway. On Thursday, September 20th, the freshmen and sophomores met in the cafeteria and had a safety meeting on cleaning up the highway. They learned what to watch out for, what not to pick up, not to be to close to the road and many more useful tips that they would need. After this meeting they got their safety vests on, their gloves on and got their trash bags and headed to the bus. That is when their journey began.

First, the freshmen and their supervisor Mr. Swanson were dropped off on one side of the highway. Then the bus took the sophomores around to the other side of the highway and dropped them off with their supervisor Mr. Muri. Even though the highway was a mess, they had a great attitude and did the best they could to pick up every bit of trash. When both sides were about half way done, Mr. Maine, driving the bus, would come and give them a water break. They all were very thankful for the water because they got very warm picking up trash with the sun beating down on them. Both classes worked very hard to clean up the highway and filled many garbage bags with trash. Altogether the classes cleaned eight miles of highway to help the community.

After this long day of work, everyone was treated to an ice-cream sandwich in the cafeteria. Everyone had a fun time helping out. The school will be cleaning up the highway again in the spring time. They will clean up all of the trash on the ground from the long winter. Calvary Christian School does the best they can to give back and keep their community clean.

            - Elise Maine, Sophomore