Students and Staff Clean Up Pebblebrook

More than 30 student volunteers from took part in the school's first annual National Public Lands Day on Saturday morning.

Pebblebrook was one of 2,000 locations across the country where approximately 180,000 volunteers took part in the 18th annual national event by improving and restoring local parks and historic grounds.

The event was organized by Pebblebrook's Earth Tomorrow Club with voluteers from other campus organizations like Future Business Leaders of America and Beta Phi service fraternity.

The first phase of a native plant pollinator garden was planted. Debris was removed from the campus nature trail and waste was removed from neighboring properties and the campus.

Principal Zinta Perkins worked side by side with the students to collect decorative rocks for the garden. Club sponsors and Pebblebrook science teachers, Alicia Bannerman and Sharifa Ned look forward to the next campus clean-up.

"It is very motivating to see the students making future plans for their school grounds. When they are initiating stewardship, the job is much easier to oversee," Ned stated.

-Sharifa Ned contributed this report.