A light shower, cloudy and miserable was the forecast for Thursday, Oct. 22. Clear blue skies, birds migrating south and a temperature near 40 degrees was what the cleanup crew was fortunate enough to have worked in.
An annual event hosted by Student For the Environment (SFE) involved picking up garbage, such as wrappers, cigarette butts and a few diapers, from the lake shore.
“For the past years we have done it on Earth day," said SFE President Asher Kingery. "Oct. 22 is half-way to Earth Day so we thought it would be fun and beneficial to have a Fall Lakeshore clean-up too!”
Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies Pat Welle, who serves as SFE's faculty advisor, drove the volunteers to the locations around the lake and helped clean up too.
Throughout the day there were 60 helpers, with a total of 20 bags of trash, and 2 bags of recyclables. There were four hour-long shifts of cleaners, spanning from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
According to Welle, the cleaners were able to cover over a mile of lakeshore. The helpers covered from north of Diamond Point, down to the Green Mill. A group of volunteers also split off from Lake Bemidji and cleaned up the shore beneath the bridges leading to Lake Irving.
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