Students鈥� Team-up Cleanup Gives Local Gardens Overdue Tidy Up
Contributed by Shauna Nandkissore
For conservationists, the slogan 鈥渢hink globally, act locally鈥� is a call to action.
In April, 海角社区 students from the Dungeons and Dragons Club and the Green Team answered the call by banding together at the Venetian Gardens in Leesburg, Florida to give Mother Nature a much-needed scrubbing.
Venetian Gardens is a nearby green space where students walk the trails, dine at the Ski Beach restaurant, and marvel at turtles, white egrets, purple gallinules, alligators and other Florida wildlife.
It鈥檚 also a popular event venue that attracts revelers 鈥� and litter. Trash often floats in Lake Harris while discarded Styrofoam white food containers offer stark contrast against the green grass 鈥� threatening area wildlife.
Acting locally, student volunteers from the Dungeons and Dragons Club and the Green Team joined forces to organize and recruit classmates to clear the waterways and spruce up the grounds on a recent Saturday afternoon.
鈥淏oth groups share a common passion: to help improve the community,鈥� said Shauna Nandkissore, a learning specialist and faculty advisor to the Dungeons and Dragons Club. 鈥淪tudents worked tirelessly in sunny Florida weather with the goal of making the gardens a more enjoyable space for everyone.鈥�
The off-campus team-up cleanup was the latest in a line of events the Green Team has hosted this semester to raise awareness about environmental issues among students and provide opportunities for students to engage in environmental initiatives on and off campus.
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