We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
Students from kindergartners to junior high joined in the second 'new' Operation Sparkle held in mid-May in Chinook. The cleanup involved several classes (not all pictured) who picked up litter in designated areas around town. The event commemorates a similar clean up launched at the encouragement of the Chinook Lions Club in 1925 to showcase the town to visitors coming for the dedication of the new sugar beet plant east of town.
A group of Chinook's Meadowlark and Junior High students recently joined the Chinook Lions to celebrate a second replay of a nearly century old event in the town. Last week classes from kindergarten to junior high picked up litter on selected city streets in Chinook. Students got to experience firsthand what happens when trash is not properly discarded.
Chinook's town clean-up efforts date back nearly a century
A few weeks before October 21, 1925, the official date of the startup and dedication of the new sugar beet plant east of town, the Chinook Lions hosted city officials at the club's then...
