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ENVIRONMENTAL ARTISTS: Students who participated in the beach clean-up at Mentor Headlands show off the trash sculpture they created from some of the thousands of items they collected on Thursday. Our environmental artists include senior Ryan Sukey; juniors Alex Moskal, Nate Esker, and Jack Kuster; senior Andrew Clemente; and juniors Luke Petersen and Alice McGuigan.

For the fifth consecutive year, our students and teachers took our mission statement to heart by transforming at least a little part of our world by cleaning up the beach at Headlands Beach State Park in Mentor on Thursday.

THIS IS NO WAY TO DO LAUNDRY: Junior Luke Petersen shows classmate Jack Kuster a soggy sock he retrieved from Mentor Headlands Beach during Thursday's beach clean-up.

In about two hours of scouring the beach, our group of 45 persons collected and catalogued over 150 pounds of trash, including more than 30 pounds of recyclables.
 
"We will share our data with Alliance of the Great Lakes Adopt-a-Beach project," explained science teacher Mrs. Liz Ford, who organized the experience with the help of science teacher Mr. Nathan Smith and theology teacher Miss Stacey Brandt.
 
Students used some of the items they collected to create sculptures and posters to highlight the environmental impact of recklessly discarding trash that finds its way into Lake Erie. The clean-up also included a prayer experience that focused participants on the beauty of creation and our Christian responsibility to cherish and protect it so that we can pass it on to future generations.