Here is the story of how I checked #14 and #15 off my bucket list...
1989
In Grade 13 Geography, our assignment was to write about the impact of population growth on the environment. I did not like the negative connotation of the topic and I wanted to write about something more positive. I asked my teacher if I could organize an environmental clean up and write an essay on my findings. He was intrigued and said he would have to clear it with the school board.
Two weeks later, I was given the go ahead. Yeah! I started to contact vendors to donate prizes, food for a barbeque and clean up supplies. Posters went up around the school for volunteers. I organized student and teacher clean up teams and individual contributors. I contacted CityTV, Global News, CFTO News, the Toronto Star and the Globe & Mail to cover th
e event.
One month later, the Humber River Clean Up took place. CityTV and CFTO were there to film. My grandmother almost fell out of her chair when she was watching the national news that night and saw me on TV.
Everyone did a fantastic job. I was so proud of all the people involved in the clean up. For a few weeks after, residents and businesses in the neighbourhood wrote letters of thanks to the school. The Toronto Star interviewed me for an article and that's how I completed two bucket items at one time.
#14 Be in the newspaper and #15 Be in the National News were added to the list in 1986, both checked off the list 1989.
Note: if you would like to participate in an environmental clean up... In 2007, Rick Crawford has created a Humber River Clean Up event which continues the premise of getting the neighbourhood involved in cleaning up the Humber River - each year targets a new section of the river.
1989
In Grade 13 Geography, our assignment was to write about the impact of population growth on the environment. I did not like the negative connotation of the topic and I wanted to write about something more positive. I asked my teacher if I could organize an environmental clean up and write an essay on my findings. He was intrigued and said he would have to clear it with the school board.
Two weeks later, I was given the go ahead. Yeah! I started to contact vendors to donate prizes, food for a barbeque and clean up supplies. Posters went up around the school for volunteers. I organized student and teacher clean up teams and individual contributors. I contacted CityTV, Global News, CFTO News, the Toronto Star and the Globe & Mail to cover th
e event.One month later, the Humber River Clean Up took place. CityTV and CFTO were there to film. My grandmother almost fell out of her chair when she was watching the national news that night and saw me on TV.
Everyone did a fantastic job. I was so proud of all the people involved in the clean up. For a few weeks after, residents and businesses in the neighbourhood wrote letters of thanks to the school. The Toronto Star interviewed me for an article and that's how I completed two bucket items at one time.
#14 Be in the newspaper and #15 Be in the National News were added to the list in 1986, both checked off the list 1989.
Note: if you would like to participate in an environmental clean up... In 2007, Rick Crawford has created a Humber River Clean Up event which continues the premise of getting the neighbourhood involved in cleaning up the Humber River - each year targets a new section of the river.
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