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FEBRUARY 8, 2023
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXIII • NO 52
Marietta Will Hold Our Forest Volunteer Days BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Donegal High School students (from left) Emily Fasig, Madison Arroyo and Alessia Archer with a collection box for Wands for Wildlife
From Trash To Treasure xperts say you should replace your mascara every few months. Thanks to students at Donegal High School, your trash can become a wild animal’s treasure. The Donegal Key Club is collecting mascara wands to donate to Wands for Wildlife, a program that began through Appalachian Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina. “We collect clean mascara wands, or if you want to donate them as is, you can put them in a plastic bag, and we’ll clean them,” explained senior Madison Arroyo. “They are used to take care of wildlife, to remove oil and debris.” The club members have placed
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donation boxes for the wands closet. “We collect clothing from throughout the school and in the students and members of the community, and we have it dry cleaned bathrooms as well as in the office. Susan Heydt, Key Club adviser, and then we store it in a closet here at school,” remarked noted that the group senior Alessia Archer. has been organizing the drive for about “It’s all part of our “We sort donations 10 years. “We used to mission to focus by size and type.” As senior Emily have a partnership on sustainability Fasig explained, with a local salon, and not to throw donations can include and we got a lot of donations from everything away anything from dressy them, but the busi- but to find ways to clothes students could wear for an ness closed, so now reuse items.” in-class presentation we’re hoping to conor job interview to nect with another formal wear for prom or other school business to partner with,” she said. Along with the wand collection, dances. “We even have some ties and Key Club members are also seeking sports coats,” she said. The group opens the closet for a donations for their Rent-the-Runway
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few weeks before school dances, and students can rent an outfit for a minimal donation which covers the cost of the dry cleaning. Heydt noted that any donations that the group feels would not suit highschool students are offered to the school’s performing arts department or donated elsewhere. In addition to the Key Club donation drives, students in the National Art Honor Society (NAHS) at Donegal are collecting markers to recycle for the Crayola ColorCycle program. “We are collecting any brand or type of plastic barrel markers,” stated senior Sydney Snyder. “You can drop them off at any school office in the district or in collection bins at the high school.” See Key Club pg 2
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If you’ve enjoyed the beautiful trees along the Northwest River Trail in Marietta, you can now take an active role in helping to maintain that beauty. The Marietta Shade Tree Committee is looking for volunteers to help with its new initiative, Our Forest Volunteer Days. Volunteers will be asked to cut English ivy and other invasive vines away from the base of trees along the trail. “We’re holding one volunteer day per month, on the last Saturday of the month through April, focused on cutting as best as we can and removing as much of the invasive and aggressive vines that have climbed their way to the top of the trees,” said Brandon Tennis, who is leading the project. Removing the vines will not only decrease the overall weight in the tree canopy, he stated, but will also decrease competition for resources such as sunlight that the trees face from