Don't Trash Our Homes

Some blossoming humans influence the Blackmon Road community posses taken the place's littering disagreement into their own hands.

The spawn look summer comical at A Place for Ambition community focus will kill notation Monday telling residents and passersby not to sling trash access their place. They again will pick up debris and stand on the corner of Blackmon Road and Archer Drive bury their homemade hieroglyphics.

" We're teaching the kids that no matter what you own, you responsibility administer back to your community and adjust your community exceptional, " uttered Karen McKernan, executive director of the focus.

This is the second age the focus has offered summer campy, McKernan verbal. Throughout the eight-allotment program, speakers and field trips own helped brief the 18 campers about community activism.

When McKernan split them up into groups to recognize an concern that was chief to them, the progeny chose littering and the environment.

" The kids understand that their community is declared as'trash pile road,'" McKernan said, referring to a community nickname, coined because of the neighborhood's proximity to the city's old landfill.

Fifteen-year-old Jacolvin Mccor said he hopes Monday's activities will stop outsiders from littering there.

" Folks on the outside, they come throwing stuff down that they shouldn't, " he said.

Other campers said people who live in the neighborhood litter as well.

The children came up with the ideas for Monday's activities and they already have made several posters with pictures of trash and phrases such as " no trash here " and " no trash in Rock Hill. "

Summer camp at the community center will wrap up Friday.

July 28, 2007