PIMS students spruce up city
Staff Writer
PRESQUE ISLE – Seventh-graders at Presque Isle Middle School recently took part in a community service project that helped beautify the Star City.
About 160 students spent the afternoons of May 3-4 working on a variety of clean-up projects throughout Presque Isle.
At the Public Works Garage, students scraped and painted benches and trash receptacles to go along Main Street, at the Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library, the seventh-graders constructed a greenhouse, raked leaves, washed windows and cleaned the shelves, while those at the Public Safety Building picked up trash around the facility.
Other students raked and picked up trash along the bike path, Mantle Lake Park and Riverside Park. Also at Riverside, the kids painted the benches, picnic tables and playground equipment. On Main Street the mulch around the trees was replaced, while gardening work and mulching was done at the airport.
The community service project was the culmination of a year-long character education unit.
Staff photos/Scott Mitchell Johnson
RAKE AND ROLL
Angela Hallowell, left, and Rachel Hobbs, seventh-graders at Presque Isle Middle School, rake up debris at Mantle Lake Park during a recent community service project that was the culmination of a year-long character education unit.
Shoveling up the old mulch that was around the trees on Main Street are, from left: Presque Isle Middle School seventh-graders Kate Leavitt, Holly York, MacKenzie Smith and Christopher Stepp. Fresh mulch was then placed around the trees as part of a community service project the students participated in.
At Riverside Park by giving them a fresh coat of paint are Presque Isle Middle School seventh-graders, from left: Keegan Ennis and Chase McIntosh. Also at the park, students raked, picked up trash, and painted the benches and playground equipment.
Seventh-graders at Presque Isle Middle School spent the afternoons of May 3-4 performing community service work in the Star City. Here, from left: Erin Ackerson, Amanda Palmer, Macy Desmond and Ryan Lavway smooth out the fresh mulch they placed around trees on Main Street.
