Middle School Cleans Up

On September 16, for the fifth year, Country Day fifth through eighth graders participated in the International Coastweeks Beach Clean Up.

As students cleaned up the beach at Judith's Fancy, they collected data on the type of garbage they removed. It was no surprise that the largest number of items were glass bottles. There were several tires that had been disposed of improperly. Two students wrestled one tire out of a swampy area and rolled it to the clean up area.

A parent spent over an hour cutting away a fishing net from the rocks in which it was entangled. Students found the remains of several fishing traps.

In only two hours students managed to completely fill the bed of Mrs. Murphy's truck. It was two hours of community service that benefited both the St. Croix community and the sea life community!