SMAS Green Team Participation in North Central Clean-Up and Garden Project

Yay to community, green, gardens, clean-ups, and SMAS volunteers!  On Saturday morning, January 12th, the Home Association of North Central San Mateo, sponsored a clean-up and garden planting in the North Central neighborhood.  North Central is our neighborhood.  Our school is part of this community.    

Representing the San Mateo Adult School Green Team, SMAS Morning Student Council President Shelley Cheng and her daughter Vivien, along with SMAS student Grace and her daughter Kate participated in this event.

Here is Shelley's description of the event:

Grace, Kate, Vivien, Shelley
HANCM Leader Amo and her daughter
at the Neighborhood Cleanup Day

First, we are very grateful to our school and community for building a bridge of communication that gives us the volunteer opportunity to participate in this clean up event. When we picked up the trash on the street, the pedestrians and staff said “ thank you “ enthusiastically to us. It made us feel that we could help others and gain more worthwhile. Also we felt we were more integrated into this community. At last, my daughter told me, “I identified that it was not an easy task to keep our community neat, so I should remind myself and my friends not to throw the trash on the ground.”

Thank you to Shelley, Grace, and their daughters for representing SMAS at this event and for making our neighborhood cleaner, safer, and healthier!

Read what the editor of the San Mateo Daily Journal, Jon Mays, had to say about the event.