Campus Beautification Day, more commonly known as Pride Day, is an event in which students weed, remove vines, replace old dirt, or mulch to improve the FVHS campus aesthetically.
Students were divided into groups with different assignments based upon the time during which they arrived on campus. Each student was distinguished by a colored wristband taped around his or her wrist. Each group was then sent out to different assigned locations on campus, and was supervised by an adult.
Many of this year’s participating students came to receive extra credit from their classes or event credit from community service clubs such as NHS and CSF. Others came to clear detentions – a maximum of four detentions could have been cleared at Campus Beautification Day.
In prior years the AP Biology classes rooted out old plants and planted their own gardens near the softball fields. This year, this was not done.
Furthermore, this year’s turnout was rather low compared to the turnout in prior years. This may have been due to the lack of advertising done for this event.
“Honestly, I didn’t really know about Pride Day until my Government teacher reminded my class to go as a way to obtain service hours,” said Kim Le (’13). “The lack of advertising definitely made an impact on the number of people attending this even. Since no one really knew about it, there were not that many people that came. I still enjoyed helping out on Pride Day, but it was sad to see such a small turnout this year.”
Campus Beautification Day was sponsored by Village Nurseries, Huntington Garden Works Landscape & Gardening Service, and Mission Landscape Services Inc.
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