FIVE ERIE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO TAKE PART IN

COUNTYWIDE PARKS CLEANUP! 

Two hundred and seventy-five students participate in first of its kind program, through Erie County Clerk Kearns’ ‘Healthy District Initiative’

Erie County, NY- On Thursday, May 31 2018, students from the Buffalo, Ken-Ton, Lackawanna, Orchard Park and West Seneca school districts took part in a countywide parks cleanup. The ‘Parks Clean-Up Day!’, part of Erie County Clerk Mickey Kearns’ Healthy District Initiative, brought 275 students from these five school districts to three different New York State Parks in Erie County, where they worked together to help cleanup debris and trash, as well as learn about the environment. This element of the ‘Healthy District Initiative’ was designed to help teach teamwork and diversity, with the students collaborating with students from a different school district to help clean Beaver Island State Park, Buffalo Harbor State Park / Tift Nature Preserve, and Knox Farm State Park.

Erie County Clerk Kearns greets students from Buffalo PS #156 (Olmsted), & Orchard Park Middle School as they begin their day of cleaning debris at Knox Farm State Park in East Aurora. 

Erie County Clerk Kearns talks to students from West Seneca East Middle School, working to clean trash at Tift Nature Preserve in Buffalo.

Erie County Clerk Mickey Kearns talks with students from Lackawanna Middle School during the ‘Healthy District Initiative Parks Cleanup Day!’.

Erie County Clerk Mickey Kearns congratulates students from Buffalo PS #45 and Ken-Ton Middle School for completing their cleanup at Beaver Island State Park in Grand Island.