CAA pulls weeds, cleans up at North Elementary
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Volunteers from Community Athletics and Activities pull weeds at North Elementary School in Moses Lake Monday. The organization is primarily aimed at raising funds to maintain extracurricular activities in the Moses Lake School District, but member Brooke Decubber said the greater mission is to improve the district and the community.
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MOSES LAKE — The campus of North Elementary School in Moses Lake looks a little nicer through the efforts of a group of students and community volunteers.
“We got a message on Saturday from ... a substitute at North, (who) was going out to go and set up some things out there and said that she had a need for some landscaping,” said Brooke Decubber, a member of Community Athletics & Activities. “There were several large, tall weeds, and the playground had weeds and goatheads out there that hadn't been tended to this summer.”
Monday morning, a group of about 30 students and a dozen adults representing CAA went out to North Elementary and pulled up a large pile of weeds, DeCubber said. They haven’t been requested for other schools, but DeCubber said they’d be willing to do the same at other schools.
“This was just kind of our first little outreach that we had got, so we showed up,” Decubber said. “We’d definitely be open to helping out more.”
CAA was formed in June as a response to shortfalls in Moses Lake School District’s funding that threatened the athletic and extracurricular programs at Moses Lake schools. Most of the organization’s efforts have gone toward raising funds to pay for school programs, but Decubber said the mission extends beyond that.
“Part of the reason we want extracurriculars is to make this community better,” she said. "We want to see (all aspects of the schools) improve. And by giving back to some of these elementary schools, because we know that there's a shortfall right now, I think it's definitely going to impact everyone from low to high within the school district.”
More information and opportunities to contribute can be found at caabooster.com.
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