Central Cambria students ‘brighten the ‘burg' through cleanup project

Yahoo

15-05-2025

EBENSBURG, Pa (WTAJ) — Central Cambria High School Students helped Ebensburg get ready for the summer months through a cleanup project.
'Brighten the 'Burg' is a student-organized cleanup where students venture out to multiple areas of the borough to perform landscaping. This year, participants weeded and mulched garden beds, added new plants to parks and picked up litter around the area.
'Ebensburg has helped us a lot with many different projects and donations to our extracurriculars and school activities,' Junior Roy Lian said. 'We decided that this was the moment to give back and help our community to do and benefit the greater good.'
Over 100 students and 20 members of the school's faculty spent the morning and early afternoon in places like Lake Rowena, Penn Eben Park, Kimbrall Park, Veterans Park and the War Memorial Field. The idea stemmed from a chance to get a head start on a senior project from three juniors.
'We love our school and we love our community because they do so much for us,' Junior Alaina Long said. 'So we just thought of some way that we could give back and give something for them for their benefit.'
Students cleaned up the borough until 2 p.m. on Thursday before heading back to the classroom. The juniors have thought about doing the clean-up again next year before graduation.
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