Wheatley Area Public School students pitch in for Canada

On Earth Day — Friday, April 22 — Wheatley Area Public School participated in the Canada-wide initiative, Pitch- In Canada, a national not-for-profit charitable environmental organization.

Pitch-In Canada is dedicated to the preservation and sustainable growth of the natural ecosystems and communities comprised of hardworking Canadian volunteers who care about making environmental change in their area and improving communities nation-wide for future generations.

Mack (left) and Alec Marshall doing their part picking up trash as part of the Wheatley Area Public School contribution to Pitch-In Canada.

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The school students from JK to Grade 8 were challenged to be active in a community litter cleanup campaign. Over the course of the Earth Day weekend, 62 kids collected over 62 bags of litter from various areas of thecommunity, including the waterfront beaches at Pier Road and Erie Street South, various local playgrounds and parks, the schoolyard, and the long stretch of Klondike Road.

The entire school also held an additional pickup program and individual classrooms took time to participate. In past years a concentrated effort focused on the downtown, but with the evacuation zone in place, the program was expanded throughout the community.

All told, well over 100 bags of trash were collected by the students.