EC conducts clean-up drive

Aldrynn Dolinta

Due to the nonstop cases of dengue in the city, Easterites spend the commemoration day of Yamashita’s
surrender by conducting a clean-up drive inside the campus on September 2, 2019.

College students from different departments partook in the half day drive. Each department was given
particular cleaning areas. Teacher Education students swept and weeded the surroundings of Rev. Robert
Franklin Wilner Building, aka Brown House while the Department of Hospitality and Business
Management did the ground behind Beatrice Chambers Building.

“We picked up the garbage scattered on the backyard that removed unwanted grasses that covered the
vegetables planted on the ground. We helped each other in order to finish up the cleaning on time,”
Hannah Bacod, an HBM first year student recounts.

The Department of Criminal Justice Education were tasked to clean the Riverside Creek beside the
entrance of the school. They gathered the wastes accumulated on the creek to avoid clogging of the
sewers. The Department of Nursing polished the School Clinic and the areas surrounding the Easter
Pucay Gymnasium.

“It is my first time to take part in a school cleaning activity and I was surprised since we don’t have the
culture of doing such. However, I was able to get to know my schoolmates better. I was also very happy
that I was able to help the school,” Chae Jong Eun, a foreign student of TED states.

Clean-up drive is a regular activity of Easter College which is pushed through every semester.

“This is to ensure that the school is safe and conducive place for learn,” Prof. Eugenia Sumawang, the
Teacher of Education dean, says.