Lake City students grow environmental awareness
Cruz Harris-Novak bought a tree sapling from the Lake City student council during his lunch period Wednesday. The students decided to sell saplings from Coeur d’Alene Forest Nursery for climate awareness.
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Rowen Lair fills out an order on the tree sale list as Nolan Jarvis and Ethan Stevens read about how to care for the Engelman spruce saplings. Lair is the junior class president and came up with the idea to sell saplings through student council to help improve the environment.
At the Lake City High School ecological club table, Gracie Ford watches as Nicole Ahrenholz demonstrates the timed recycling game the group came up with. Students have to sort through and identify which items are trash and which are recycling items in 10 seconds. If they get everything right, they receive a candy prize.
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Lake City High School juniors Anne Tenbrink and Savannah Lujan discuss the lifespan of the Engelman spruce saplings the student council is selling this week as a celebration of Earth Day.
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COEUR d’ALENE — Sbruce, Roberto and Jeff.
Those are the new names several Lake City High School students chose for spruce tree saplings sold as an Earth Day celebration.