Northwood News ♦ October 2013

FKES Fifth Graders Place ‘No Dumping’ Plaques

By Jacquie Bokow, yet again

The 2013 graduating class at Forest Knolls Elementary School decided not to waste the last few days of the school year. They officially graduated on Tuesday evening, 11 June 2013, in a ceremony at Northwood High School. But because school didn’t end until Thursday, 14 June, the resourceful students spent an entire day in community service on Wednesday, 12 June.

Supported by the Montgomery County Department of Transportation, the Fifth Graders fastened “No Dumping” signage plaques on many of the storm drains in the NFCCA territory. These students, of course, live in the neighborhood or south of University; some did a similar project last summer in South Four Corners through Girl Scout Troop 4903.

“No Dumping” signs were affixed to some of the storm drains in our neighborhood as part of a “Day of Service” for Fifth Graders graduating this year from Forest Knolls Elementary.

The storm drain markers on neighborhood sewers were not the only project that day. According to Cecily Thorne, chair of the promotion committee who arranged most of the activities taking place on the Day of Service, the students also: (1) hosted a lunch for the entire staff at FKES, (2) made bag breakfasts and lunches for the emergency shelter in Rockville, (3) spruced up the nature trail at the elementary school, (4) redid the main courtyard at FKES, and (5) helped teachers get their rooms ready for summer.

But, lest you think these students are all work, all day Thursday, June 13, was party time! ■