Local youth not afraid to do dirty work

MEREDITH — If you recently saw teenagers along Rte. 25 working to clean up and pick up garbage, you were not imagining things. Members of Inter-Lakes High School business classes and members of the school's Future Business Leaders of America club had been completing a community service challenge imagined by their chapter president and FBLA officer Mykyle Merrill. Their goal was threefold. Clean the garbage up alongside the school hill as well as the nature trail they have been enjoying, present to the school board a proposal for more recycling bins, and foster a sense of community spirit and social responsibility among all stakeholders.

“I decided to finalize the decision on my project because of my love for being active and outdoors. The Granite State is a beautiful state where many tourists flock to for its pureness. Our state is filled with vast forests. New Hampshire will maintain this status by being green and ecologically conservative. My State Officer Project is to keep New Hampshire communities clean and healthy. Clean living conditions are essential to a person's health so by promoting recycling and trash pickup a more suitable living environment will be created. I aim to accomplish this and ecologically better our state. My main goal for this project is to reduce pollution by getting multiple multipurpose recycling bins within schools across the state. I have noticed this first hand when I travel all over the state for different sports games and notice facilities that lack proper disposal bins. I also have a goal of ridding our state of pre-existing pollution by picking up trash at public places such as local parks, libraries, schools, etc. Although littering is illegal and frowned upon, it is still prevalent which is where we come into play” Said Mykyle.