Video By: Jesse Erickson

On Tuesday, April 30th Woodland Juniors and Seniors took time out of their B Block class to attend a presentation put together by Whitney Stow for her senior project.

“I did a texting and driving awareness,” stated Stow. “I also had a guy from Survive the Drive come and give a presentation. Then I have a video I made and I have a pledge that people can sign.”

On Tuesday, Bob Green, a representative from Survive the Drive came to talk to Woodland students. Survive the Drive is an independent  non-profit organization that attempts to educate drivers of all ages.

According to the Survive the Drive website, “He focuses the students on the detrimental activity of texting, reading, drinking, phoning and any other activities that remove conscious understanding of the ever-present operational hazards of heavy, moving equipment.”

Stow thinks that this is an important thing to do for students. “I don’t really have a touching story or a real reason [to do this as her senior project], I just feel like it is really important because too many people do it, and like the stupidest thing you could do is text and drive.”

Green hoped that by sharing his own personal experience with distracted driving he would be able to make a difference for someone.

“It really opened up my eyes,” said Junior Taline Agamy. “It made it more real.”

Senior Eric Meir admitted, “It was a good opportunity to tell people why they shouldn’t text and drive.”

Senior Erin Wester also had some things to say after the assembly was over. “He was very passionate about what he did. I thought that it would definitely show that the people care about what they do in their work. It also showed that we really shouldn’t be distracted when driving and that it can cause a lot of damage.

On Monday, April 22^nd Woodland’s Student Council decided to step outside their regular senate meeting and meet at Matthies Park instead. Here officers, students, and senators alike gathered to celebrate Earth Day by hosting the first annual Earth Day Cleanup.

“Today we are doing our first Earth Day Cleanup. We are going to be going down to Matthies Park and cleaning up and helping around,” said WRSC advisor, Christopher Tomlin.

Event Coordinator and freshmen, Lindsey Rodorigo said, “I thought it would be a good service project to show kids that student council isn’t only for the school but it’s for the community as well.”

“The purpose is to bring student council together and to bring the community together and to do a service project, to give back to the community at large. I hope students can take away a sense of accomplishment of working with community working for community; and showing little things can help out,” said Tomlin.

Rodorigo explains that students spread mulch and helped to pick up the garbage around the park. “I think it went good,” said Rodorigo, “We cleaned up a lot and we all had fun cleaning up the park, spreading mulch, and just making the park a better place.”

So while taking a break from legislation student council members were able to help make a difference in their community this Earth Day.

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Video By: Jesse Erickson