Every year for Earth Day, our students head out to help clean up the local environment in conjunction with the Kent Conservation Commission. Led by School Chaplain Father Klots, the boys gathered outside the “Old Building” to coordinate before splitting up into groups to cover local roads from Kent, to the South Kent campus, to Gaylordsville. Students and faculty put in quite the effort to clean and improve and save our earth.
Bags and gloves are donated by the Kent Conservation Commission, who have helped with this worthy cause over the past ten years also. This year, the Kent Conservation Commission also gave the boys a special Earth Day cake as thanks for their hard work! South Kent School is proud to help keep our local community clean as part of the School’s continuous effort to promote environmental awareness and activism among our student body and community.
Participating in the annual Earth Day Roadside Cleanup is just one more way SKS students are thoughtful and engaged citizens in our rapidly changing world. Thank you to all who were part of the special day. The town, and more importantly, the earth, thanks you. Father Klots, who has run the operation for the past ten years, had this to say: ““I look forward to Earth Day every year, and I know many alumni have fond memories of it. It’s a great reminder that we all have a part to play in taking care of this beautiful world that God has given to us.”