Green Club bench update ONU participates in Nursing Without Borders program in early May

LUCIA PERFETTI guest writer

On Dec. 5, WHS Green Club began collecting plastic bottle caps, which must be 8-inches in diameter or less.

Since then, we have collected, washed and dried over 10,000 bottle caps, which sounds, and feels, like a lot of caps, but we are only onequarter of the way to reaching our goal of 100 pounds of bottle caps.

Once Green Club has received and cleaned 100 pounds of caps, we will be able to send them to a facility to get the plastic caps turned into a new bench, which will be similar to that currently in the second courtyard.

To donate caps to the cause, you can collect any plastic bottle caps you use at home, school or work and dump them in your designated bin, either upstairs by the BLADE room or in the Commons.

For updates, follow our Instagram @whsgreenclub_ or text “@greenwhs” to 81010.

HANNAH LOGIUDICE on-campus editor

Ohio Northern University is sponsoring Ohio Northern Nursing Without Borders, which is a student humanitarian organization that travels to the Dominican Republic every May on a medical outreach trip.

Emma LoGiudice, a current junior nursing major at Ohio Northern University and 2020 WHS alum, will be traveling with Nursing Without Borders as a student nurse. Each year, health care and donated supplies, as well as health education, are provided to over 500 Dominican and Haitian people during the outreach trip.

Ohio Northern is seeking donations of vitamins, calcium tablets, folic acid tablets, antibiotic ointment, antifungal ointment, hydrocortisone cream, hygiene products such as hand sanitizer, soap toothbrushes and toothpaste. Donations can be brought to the First Presbyterian Church of Wooster and are asked to be completed by April 1.