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This article was featured in the Fairlawn Magazine.
As
you drive down the road, finishing your McDonalds breakfast, you
have no where to put your trash, so you throw it out the window.
Then during lunch, you finish the coke you were slugging on before
returning to the office, you just toss it out the window instead of
recycling it.
This is littering, which is what Project Pride attempts to fix.
People from your community came out Saturday, April 23 at nine in
the morning in the pouring rain to clean the streets of Akron.
This is the second year Project Pride has taken
place, and it plans to run for years to come. Organizers of this
event were Dana Singer, Ruth Joeck, and Bill Snow, It is planed to
turn to groups and organizations to systematize Community Project
Pride.
According to Singer, “The reason most students
turned out, besides extra credit, was they knew that they could make
a difference”
44 parents and students turned out to Project Pride.
This number is about one hundred citizens less than last year, only
because of weather.
Singer says, “The number of students that turn out
is phenomenal, just phenomenal.”
Last year, the total amount of trash collected was
about two 30 cubic yards of trash, which is about 18 tons of trash.
Adam Josephson, the co-editor in chief of the Revere High School
Lantern, says, “That’s a huge load.”
There was much trash collected, items included were bed frames, hub
caps, McDonalds food containers, Coke products, beer bottles,
cigarette butts, and additional items bringing this years total to
40 tons. WOW
Some of the roads Project Pride cleaned this year were Revere,
Everett, Cleveland Massillon, Brecksville, Hametown, Crystal Lake,
Monica, Ira, Yellow Creek, West Bath, Chase, Rush, Southern,
Broadview heights, and many others.
According to Singer, there are twenty-one essential
assets involved in Project Pride. The project empowers those who
help. It teaches a sense of pride in the community, others property,
hence the name, Community Project Pride. This project makes people
more aware of the community they live in and all the littering that
takes place throughout the world.
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