Pine River-Backus High School students logged an estimated $3,000 worth of labor in the form of cleanup for the school district, according to teacher Deb Schlueter.
Meanwhile, Pequot Lakes students worked at area parks during their annual Day of Caring on Wednesday, May 5.
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Pine River-Backus Service Day
PR-B students tackled outdoor work as part of the district's annual Tiger Pride Service Day on Thursday, May 6. Students in grades 7-12 spread out through the community to do small projects and clean up. Schlueter estimated the group did an equivalent of 250 hours of work.
Some students operated in small groups while others gathered in larger groups for cleanup at places like the cemetery and the school forest.
At the school forest, teacher Steven Sandeen guided a crew through a repair of the dock that extends from the forest onto Norway Lake. The dock is now safe and useable by those visiting. Similarly, seventh and eighth graders cleaned deadfall from the school forest outdoor classroom and trail system.
The forest features a bridge that crosses a boggy area. Students helped custodian Jim Niskanen there to spread mulch where the trail had deteriorated and become less passable.
Much of the work done during the Pequot Lakes Day of Caring focused on beautifying area parks. Small groups of students took to Trailside Park and Sibley Lake Park in Pequot Lakes, Pelican Woods Cemetery in Breezy Point and a number of other locations.
Other students helped in any way possible at local churches and residences.
1/4: Pequot Lakes student Maggie Thell loads wheelbarrows with mulch at Trailside Park during the school's Day of Caring on Wednesday, May 5. Dan Determan / Echo Journal
2/4: Pine River-Backus students cleared a massive pile of deadfall from the trails and outdoor classroom in the Pine River-Backus school forest. Submitted PHoto (May 2021)
3/4: Steve Sandeen guided a group of Pine River-Backus students in repairing the dock which extends from the school forest into Norway Lake. Submitted Photo
4/4: Pequot Lakes student Max Trumpold was one of a number of students spreading mulch at Pelican Woods Cemetery in Breezy Point during the high school's Day of Caring on Wednesday, May 5. Dan Determan / Echo Journal
1/4: Pequot Lakes student Maggie Thell loads wheelbarrows with mulch at Trailside Park during the school's Day of Caring on Wednesday, May 5. Dan Determan / Echo Journal
2/4: Pine River-Backus students cleared a massive pile of deadfall from the trails and outdoor classroom in the Pine River-Backus school forest. Submitted PHoto (May 2021)
3/4: Steve Sandeen guided a group of Pine River-Backus students in repairing the dock which extends from the school forest into Norway Lake. Submitted Photo
4/4: Pequot Lakes student Max Trumpold was one of a number of students spreading mulch at Pelican Woods Cemetery in Breezy Point during the high school's Day of Caring on Wednesday, May 5. Dan Determan / Echo Journal
Travis Grimler began work at the Echo Journal Jan. 2 of 2013 while the publication was still split in two as the Pine River Journal and Lake Country Echo. He is a full time reporter/photographer/videographer for the paper and operates primarily out of the northern stretch of the coverage area (Hackensack to Jenkins).
