A group in High Point is looking for some willing high school students to help beautify the city.
The pay, which is zero dollars per hour, isn’t good at all, but the experience should prove quite rewarding in its own way.
The Keep High Point Beautiful board announced this week that it’s seeking motivated high school students to join the Keep High Point Beautiful Youth Advisory Council for the 2020-2021 school year. The organization is looking for kids in grades 9 -12 who wish to spend some of the upcoming year doing good work in the community rather than playing video games or posting wacky challenges on social media sites.
Participation in the Youth Advisory Council will include attending bi-monthly Keep High Point Beautiful board meetings – which, of course, are virtual for the time being. Students will also participate in – and help prepare for – litter cleanup events and educational initiatives related to the importance of keeping the city clean.
The youngsters will also provide ideas and insight for new and existing programming and events and help with outreach to peer groups and assisting with “litter indexing” – the system through which High Point measures the severity of litter on roadways, among other programs.
Youth Advisory Council members, by virtue of participating, will also get the chance to be selected for the National Keep America Beautiful Youth Advisory Council.
Rebecca Coplin, the board’s beautification supervisor, said this program is beneficial to the participants as well as to the city as a whole.
“The Keep High Point Beautiful Youth Advisory Council serves as an opportunity for high school students to voice their ideas on how we can improve High Point through beautification while protecting the environment,” Coplin said in a public statement meant to encourage kids to participate. “Youth Advisory Council members have the chance to learn more about the specific environmental challenges that we face in the Piedmont area and gain firsthand experience and knowledge of ways that we can improve our community.”
Safety precautions and protective measures are in place to ensure all board members are protected from the spread of COVID-19as much as possible.
Those interested can download an application at http://www.highpointnc.gov/KHPByouthcouncil. Applications will be accepted through Wednesday, Sept. 16, 202.
This program appears to be an excellent idea. Please let everyone know how many young people apply. I hope we will not be disappointed, but I have my doubts.
While I wholeheartedly agree with the cleanup effort, what is to protect these kids from all the heroin syringes all over the city and the many illnesses they could catch from those? Yes, there is good in teaching kids to beautify their city, but don’t lose sight of doing something about the problem as well. Hold your virtual visits and have good kids go out and clean up the messes the problem children left for them to clean up. The opiate “pandemic” has exponentially more victims than the current virus of the day. A message for the council and the citizens:
Let the police and code enforcement employees do their jobs and stop making excuses for those that break the law and litter the landscape so its still there for future generations to enjoy.
Litterers are pigs. Selfish and inconsiderate.
Cleaning up litter is a good project for inmates in prison.
Agree totally!!! Good, well meaning youth will go pick up trash that many disgusting citizens throw down?! And then they will throw more trash down, and more….. Where is the lesson? People with morals do the work and ones without keep throwing trash!? Inmates and juvey offenders can pick up while responsible youth supervise!!!!
The thing that should have happened was lock up this stupid group that came through and wanted to tear up/riot and burn up the town of Greensboro and High Point.They should have been forced to clean theses places up .If the Greensboro mayor was in charge she would force White people clean up after these Riotors who came through town.
You are 100% correct. All the fees and fines they rack up go toward helping the kiddo’s that are on this committee with their college or higher education learning depending their chosen profession.
I think it is a very scary situation for the youth to do this as of all. The danger that may come about in and all around us at this time