About 40 students and teachers took NDCL’s mission statement to heart by transforming at least a little part of the world by cleaning up the beach at Headlands Beach State Park in Mentor on Sept. 23...
Headlands Beach Cleanup
About 40 students and teachers took NDCL’s mission statement to heart by transforming at least a little part of the world by cleaning up the beach at Headlands Beach State Park in Mentor on Sept. 23.
Groups of students scoured the beach to collect and catalogue thousands of pieces of trash and other debris, including a car bumper, washed ashore during the previous night’s storm. The group consisting of seniors Racheal Ina and Natalie Kresic and freshmen Olivia Lewis and Luke Nedved won the top award for the most trash collected.
The cleanup included a prayer experience that focused participants on the beauty of creation and the Christian responsibility to cherish and protect it so that it can be passed on to future generations.
Science teachers Elizabeth Ford and Nathan Smith coordinated the beach cleanup project, which NDCL has sponsored annually since 2014.
Book War Success
When Director of Campus Ministry Halle McKeon heard that students at some Catholic elementary schools in Cleveland lacked access to age-appropriate and interesting books as they learn to read, she and Director of Student Leadership Ben Lozar ’09 launched a book war among NDCL grade levels to help solve the problem.
In just one week, students cleaned out the shelves and bookcases of their homes to donate more than 2,000 titles for the children at Saint Adalbert, Saint Francis, Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Jerome schools.
The junior class won the book war competition by donating a stack of books measuring more than 11 feet high.
