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Students in the
PLOT (Promise Leaders of Tomorrow) youth group and
Making Proud Choices
held a clean-up of
North Park organized by members of
Team FRESH as part of their volunteer community efforts. Sixth-grade students
from
Morton Middle
School met with other middle school students after school on June
16, 2009, passed out gloves, divided into two teams and headed uphill to
the park. Finding trash of all kinds, the teams filled half a dozen
garbage bags and returned to the school to see which team had collected
the most. Following the event, youth headed to
CD-REC on Bank Street to donate
canned goods for local soup kitchens and to watch a video together. The
project is designed to instill a sense of civic duty, encourage
community service and build leadership skills among middle school youth
who will be moving into similar roles in high school through
Team FRESH and other youth groups.
Click here for the Herald News article about the project and
its recent award.
For information about the PLOT group, contact
Massachusetts Promise Fellow
Brendan Sullivan at
315-832-0234 or Fall River Youth Coordinator Christian McCloskey
at 508-324-2419.
(Photos, bottom row, by Brendan Sullivan) |
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.(Top row, left
and center)
Massachusetts Promise Fellow
Brendan Sullivan and Fall
River Youth Coordinator Christian McCloskey
gather with students behind
Morton Middle
School and pass out gloves toDesmond Sanders,
Shelby Chouinard and the other students. (Top row, right) Desmond
Sanders and Jessica Pereira begin picking up trash next to the
Morton Middle
School school sign in North Park. (Middle row, left) Nicholas Dumont
heads up the hill with
Making Proud Choices
program coordinator Ann Medeiros. (Middle row, right) Saphera Sreng and
jessica Wond race up the hill ahead of the rest of Team FRESH. (Bottom
row, center and right) Students Zacharia Sonallah, Shela Carreiro and
Bellinda Teixeira go the extra mile to get trash out of the wading pond
at North Park and then return to the School to display their haul. |
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