D3: dump, ditch, diversion

“It’s time to save the planet,” say local Kashechewan youth as they scurry around town in a race to pick up pop cans.
Over the past few months, a tremendous change has taken place within the community. One can at a time, the youth are making an environmental stand by cleaning up their community.
This phenomenon has started because of the high hopes and good will of Francine J. Wesley Secondary School teacher Haydn George.
Because of George, D3 has faithfully been able to rely on the youth and community members of Kashechewan to collect their cans and bring them to the school.
Once George and the youth have collected enough cans they will be shipped to Timmins to be properly recycled. As of November the program has collected more than 20,000 cans.
To help promote this D3 program and raise awareness within the schools and community, many other St. Andrews School and FJWSS staff have done their part to promote the program.
One great example is teacher Bonnie Brown who organized the first town clean up for both schools to take part in. The entire day was filled with smiles, dirt, laughter, garbage and small competitions for different crazy items classes collected. Brown’s clean up collected more than 120 bags of garbage.