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Our goal for the Adopt-A-River/Lexus Eco Challenge is to get at least 40 people to adopt the river. Right now we only have 6, and we have only two weeks. If anyone is interested, its not that hard. You simply walk down to your section of the river, pulls weeds pick up trash, and bring a garbage bag to dump all the trash in and then throw it away in a dumpster, or even just put it next to a trash can. You only need to go down about once a month and if you help you can even put an advertisement or sign in your building saying you adopted part of the river. If you don’t think you would have the time to go down to the river once a month, you can simply sign an agreement saying you will send a monetary donation. Anything and everything is welcome. For more information, please contact our science teacher, Mrs. Patty. Karbon, at pkarban@stjoemish.com Thank you for your contribution.

Sincerely,

St. Joseph, Mishawaka 

Photos with rick and adopt-a-river clean up from when our eighth grade class went down to pull weeds.

Enjoy,

St. Joseph, Mishawaka

Today we went to Beardsley School to put on a performance. We had people who did singing, a slide show, a rap, skits, guitar solo, music, speeches, poems, and we even had a class talk about the history of the river. One of the skits even included audience participation. The slide show showed pictures of the river, and the speeches talked about the importance of adopting the river. The rap talked about the need to go clean up and around the river. Thank you Beardsley for letting us come to your school, and we hope you liked it.

The Plain Green Tee’s

(Performers at Beardsley)

We took a field trip with St. Bavo’s to study the history of the St. Joseph River.  We learned that they used to dump their sewage straight into the river. Ball band use to  dumpted their trash right into the river. Mayor Rea said one day he walked under the bridge and another day he was in a saftey suit and he saw a ton of mice and trash. Then after we walked on the river walk we went to the sewage plant and learned how they clean our waste water and put it back into the river clean. Then we went and had lunch at Beutter Park by the river. Then we went back to school.

Hey! St. Joe school wants you to participate in the Saint Joseph River project. Our 8th grade class went to Saint Joseph River in Mishawaka, Indiana and learned about adopting a part of the river for a clean-up project. When you adopt part of the river, you take time to go to the river a couple times a month, and clean up a little. Our 7th and 8th grade will be going soon to check out the progress. We want you to be a part of the community and help clean up the river! So go on and adopt part of the river, I dare you!

Love,

St. Joseph School

Hey! St. Joesph School here! On October 3, St. Joe was outside the whole day! To start the day off, we had our math class outside! We measured a fence. Then we went to science class and we also had class outside! We talked about the Lexs Eco Challenge. We decided that we would have an assembly at Beardsly’s School. We talked about what kinds of things we’d liked to do to participate. We walked down to Kam’s Island for lunch. It was awesome! We could walk around, talk to our friends, and play ball. I enjoyed the beauty of it. Then after we walked back to our school, and had had an assembly about different animals. We learned about different animals have different habitats. Over all I think it was a fun day! I hope we can do it again next year!

Love,

St. Joesph School!

Ok so we will be having an assembly at Beardsly School!  It will be alot of fun!!!! Well.. it will take alot of time! So preparing for it will be alot to do! All of us 6th, 7th, and 8th graders will be in it. We will have a slide show of what we did so far through out participateing in the Lexus Eco Challenge. We will have poetry, a speech, songs, a rap, a slide show, and skits! Us 6th graders will be participateing in a walking history tour of the St Joseph River. We will have what the river looked like in the prehistoric times to present day. Hope we do well!!! Good luck to us, St. Joe Of Mishawaka!!!!