Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 29, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 10, 1988 Page: 34 of 48
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PAGE IOC-THE POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE. SUNDAY APRIL 10. IDHH
Livingston schools support cleanup
The Livingston Independent
School District has been very active
in the last year or two in adding to
the attractiveness and cleanliness to
schools, campuses and offices, ac-
cording to Emma Alice Tinney,
chairman of the schools committee
of Keep Polk County Beautiful
(KPCB).
She told guests at the KPCB
awards dinner last month that
within LISD there have been renova-
tions, additions, and generally a
paint-it-beautify-it spirit.
Renovation of the Livingston
Junior High School was one major
accomplishment.
“The beauty of the campus can be
seen as one travels on West Church
Street,” she said.
In landscaping, the school has
received plantings of crepe myrtle,
evergreen shrubs and rose gardens,
with extra care and maintenance of
the lawns on each campus.
“Many of the students helped as
part of a community lab group last
summer in cleaning, painting and
planting of shrubs on their campus. ”
Junior high school students are
working to keep their school and
campus litter free, said Tinney.
She noted that one of the Adopt-A-
Highway groups is the Livingston
Junior High National Honor Society.
Another LISD renovation project
was to the Special Services Coop, of-
fices on North Jackson Street, which
is shared by all the school districts in
the county.
Tinney said that in addition to
renovation and permanent im-
provements, ‘many things have
been done on each LISD campus by
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ministrators to teach pride in our
community and their school to help
keep their campus litter free.”
“Students at Livingston Elemen-
tary have been busy studying their
‘Waste in Space’ curriculum,” said
Tinney. “This curriculum was
developed by Keep America
Beautiful in response to teachers
who recognized the need to instill in
their students a positive attitude
toward their community.”
“Waste in Space” was designed
for students in kindergarten through
the sixth grade and covers the
behaviorial aspects of waste
management. By August last year,
more than 193,000 elementary school
students in 411 schools inTexas were
learning the principles taught by the
program.
Also last year, more than 147,000
elementary students participated in
a “Clean Campus” program. More
than 48,000 learned about litter
through skits and puppet shows,
more than 65,000 saw at least one
film on the subject, and more than
67,000 competed in either a litter
poster or litter essey contest.
Some 400 essays were written by
students in Polk County, expressing
their feelings about community
pride and reduction/elimination of
litter.
Last fall, students at Livingston
Elementary made an entry in the
Pinecone Festival parade with the
theme of “Drive the Litter Bug out
of Polk County.”
Last month the students decorated
grocery bags for the local grocery
stores encouraging the public to
keep Polk County clean and
beautiful.
Students at Livingston Middle
School have distributed litter bags
furnished by the Texas Department
of Highways and Public transporta-
tion, and they also wrote essays
about litter reduction. In October
they — as well as some junior high
students — participated in the
aluminum can recycling project for
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State Park near Baytown. This was
a project that involved students
from all over the state. Middle
school students are presently involv-
ed in a litter art contest.
Students at Livingston High
School, too, have worked to keep
clean and to beautify their campus,
said Tinney.
“Ag classes have worked on a
landscaping project in front of their
school, and each spring the forestry
classes clean the area around the
pond in front of the school.” She add-
ed that biology classes plant
wildflowers on the hillside behind
the school.
Also, during the two county-wide
cleanup days, said Tinney, several
hundred students from all the LISD
schools have taken an active part.
“The students, the teachers and
the administrators have all been
actively supportive of a cleaner
and litter-free Polk County,” she
said. ^
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certificate to Livingston ISD Superintendent David Mon-
tgomery for the efforts the school system has made toward
litter and beautification campaigns. Tinney also presented
awards to representatives of each of the school district’s four
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White, Barbara. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 29, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 10, 1988, newspaper, April 10, 1988; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth795789/m1/34/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.