{"id":2827,"date":"2024-04-23T16:22:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T23:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2024-04-23T16:23:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T23:23:38","slug":"albion-elementary-students-celebrate-earth-day-with-community-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/albion-elementary-students-celebrate-earth-day-with-community-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"Albion Elementary students celebrate Earth Day with community cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2828\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress1.blob.core.windows.net\/albion\/2024\/04\/albion-earth-day-1.jpg\" alt=\"Albion Elementary students hold up full garbage bag after their community cleanup.\" width=\"6386\" height=\"4257\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Albion Elementary students rolled up their sleeves and got to work on Earth Day to do their part in creating a cleaner, greener environment.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with garbage bags and pickers, Jennifer Holman&#8217;s Grade 4\/5 and Cheryl Denton&#8217;s Grade 3\/4 classes made their way through the neighbourhood, cleaning the community one piece of litter at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Holman said the students loved going out and making a difference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The students were competing with one another in who could collect the most and they were truly surprised by some of the odd items that were found,&#8221; said Holman, adding they loved being able to go out and make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>They found all sorts of items, from discarded wrappers and pop cans to a hanging flower pot and metal box.<\/p>\n<p>Albion Elementary has been part of the Maple Ridge Adopt-a-Block program for several years and the Earth Day cleanup was one more way for students and staff to give back to the community.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qnHjZdIlcyY?si=961_1KFSg1VFVcLd\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2827 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/albion-elementary-students-celebrate-earth-day-with-community-cleanup\/albion-earth-day-07\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6720\" height=\"4480\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress1.blob.core.windows.net\/albion\/2024\/04\/albion-earth-day-07.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Close up of picker throwing garbage into bag.\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/albion-elementary-students-celebrate-earth-day-with-community-cleanup\/albion-earth-day-09\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6144\" height=\"4096\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress1.blob.core.windows.net\/albion\/2024\/04\/albion-earth-day-09.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Albion Elementary students participate in community cleanup.\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-2827 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/albion-elementary-students-celebrate-earth-day-with-community-cleanup\/albion-earth-day-10\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2987\" height=\"4480\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress1.blob.core.windows.net\/albion\/2024\/04\/albion-earth-day-10.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Albion Elementary students participate in community cleanup.\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/albion-elementary-students-celebrate-earth-day-with-community-cleanup\/albion-earth-day-5\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4480\" height=\"6720\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress1.blob.core.windows.net\/albion\/2024\/04\/albion-earth-day-5.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Albion Elementary student holding up discarded flower pot with picker.\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/albion-elementary-students-celebrate-earth-day-with-community-cleanup\/albion-earth-day-08\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3879\" height=\"5819\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress1.blob.core.windows.net\/albion\/2024\/04\/albion-earth-day-08.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Albion Elementary students uses picker to grab discarded wrapper during community cleanup.\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/albion-elementary-students-celebrate-earth-day-with-community-cleanup\/albion-earth-day-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4197\" height=\"6295\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress1.blob.core.windows.net\/albion\/2024\/04\/albion-earth-day-3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Albion Elementary student holding up full garbage bag after community cleanup.\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albion Elementary students rolled up their sleeves and got to work on Earth Day to do their part in creating a cleaner, greener environment. Armed with garbage bags and pickers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2838,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/2838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/albion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}