It is a hectic part of the semester. First we plan a fish removal from Lake LU (on the UWA campus). It is canceled for some reason. So we change plans for a prairie burn, guess what, canceled due to weather. For some strange reason we can't burn the prairie while it is raining. So we plan our next Adopt-a-Stream river monitoring event. It rains, snows and the river is out of its banks. CANCELED! So we plan a Highway clean up and success strikes us at last.
The Highway clean up was planed on short notice, so we did not have many ECEC members present, actually (not counting me) Caiti was the only ECEC member there. That's OK because I had seven service learning students trying to finish their hours. So what do I tell them, no you can't work now but meet me at 10:00 Tuesday and you can finish those hours. I don't know what our record time for a highway clean up is, but I'll bet we came pretty close today. From leaving Cross Hall, setting up signs, handing out the wonderful orange vests and trash bags, to finishing, it took us approximately 45 minutes to clean our mile stretch of highway.
If that wasn't enough, the Phi Theta Kappa mile stretch was also due. So what do we do, load up all those students and head down Highway 15 South. Our one PTK member (again not counting me) Caiti, helped lead the charge down our stretch of highway. This stretch for some reason is a little longer than ECEC's. It is mostly because ECEC's goes in front of the school and more houses. Which means cleaner ditches and road sides. The PTK stretch also had more trash. It took about one hour.
So we left Cross Hall around 10:00 and returned about 12:00. To me that's not bad. Cleaning up two miles of highway in two hours. Thank you service learning!
We do have several projects in mind for the Spring Semester. They include; a trip (hopefully a camp out) to Okatibbee to put up and replace bluebird boxes and martin houses, more Highway cleanups, a river cleanup, Adopt-a-stream water monitoring, prairie burn, and some Spring trip(probably back to the Coast). Let's keep our fingers crossed.
Curt Skipper
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Hey Mr. Skipper! Look, I did what I told you I'd do and got on first thing when I got home to fav the blog. Brad and I would both have loved to participate in the highway cleanup but we had what basically amounts to our art exam at 10:30. Hopefully we'll be able to get something soon that we'll all have a chance to do. Have a great Christmas break!
-Brandi T
Hey. If you are following me and I'm following you are we going in a circle? Lol. I'll be adding pics of the squirrel my beetles have been working on pretty soon if not tonight since I have to stay up till 4am anyway. I'm on foal watch duty tonight at the horse unit at school. Better run. TTYL.
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