Lawrence-Nelson students and staff all took part in the community clean up held this past Thursday. When the smaller groups finished with their assigned tasks, many met at the building formally known as the Good Samaritan Center to chip in and help finish cleaning things up.
After everything getting cut short in 2020, we were thrilled to be able to do Community Cleanup Day this year! Our staff and students split into groups to tackle projects throughout Lawrence and Nelson. Several groups completed projects at peoples' homes, which included raking, trimming, cleaning and painting. Natalie Jacobitz, seventh grader at L-N, even purchased and potted several flowers on her own to donate to one community member, Marie Chapman.
Other groups worked at the high school painting curbs, pulling weeds, planting flowers and doing various cleaning projects. Both Nelson and Lawrence benefited from this day in the form of park cleanup and pool cleanup, and students even helped Russ prepare for the summer at the ball field in Lawrence. Mr. Brown took a group of students to the golf course in Nelson where they did some much needed painting, and Mrs. Porter and Mrs. Epley shuttled students back and forth to clean up the highway outside of Nelson.
In Nelson, one group worked at the soon-to-be daycare near the high school football field and later in the day, almost all of the students working in Nelson ended up joining. Those groups accomplished so much and some students weren't ready to call it a day at 3 p.m.! Altogether, both the staff and the students worked hard all day to give back to their communities and we can't wait to do it again next year!
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