Foxcroft Academy students give the neighborhood a spring cleaning

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Foxcroft Academy students and faculty members spent their advisory period on June 11, in a novel fashion: cleaning up the neighborhood. Each advisory was assigned to one of three zones surrounding the FA campus and was responsible for picking up as much trash as possible in roughly 30 minutes. Although Dover-Foxcroft is quite a clean community, FA’s meticulous students still managed to fill many trash bags with scraps of food and paper, cigarette butts, pieces of glass, and other refuse.

Photos courtesy of Foxcroft Academy

LATE SPRING CLEANING — Foxcroft Academy students and faculty spent an advisory period cleaning up three areas around the Dover-Foxcroft campus, aiming to pick up as much trash as possible in 30 minutes. Below are students, from left, James Smith, Dylan Harmon-Weeks and Tino Ayala.

    Head of School Arnold Shorey was impressed with the enthusiasm demonstrated by students throughout the cleanup. “We are very fortunate to have a respectful and responsible student body that we’re able to fully trust to handle a service project of this nature,” he said, noting that students from the Class of 2014 completed just under 8,000 hours of documented community service during their time in high school.
    The idea for the spring cleanup was inspired by Jody Arno, who created a Facebook page in memory of her late son Dacano and last month asked followers to take on a different challenge each day that was designed to help others. The results have been amazing and prompted Shorey to think of a way that Foxcroft Academy could give back to the community before the school year was out.
    “Our community is incredibly supportive of FA, and we thought that asking our students to spend some time picking up the neighborhood would be a simple but meaningful way to say thank you,” said Shorey, who was quick to add that Tina Taggart and Angela Smart-Davis, who serve as the Advisor-Advisee planning committee, deserve a great deal of credit for coordinating and organizing the event.