OPERATION GREEN - PLANT FOR THE FUTURE


Lenoir Community College Omicron Rho Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa has adopted Phi Theta Kappa’s service program, Operation Green, and implemented activities not only on LCC's campus, but also in the community, and at the regional level.

Adopting the Keep America Beautiful attitude of “roll-up-your-sleeves” action, chapter members, alumni, and community members have participated in the regional Brown Bag Waterway Clean-Up, cleaning an assigned area of the Neuse River Park in Kinston.

"We joined local businesses, students, and community members in Pride of Kinston’s, Clean-Up Day, a day long Saturday clean-up and beautification of downtown Kinston, followed by a street dance and picnic," said Phi Theta Kappa adviser Carolyn Crossland.

"Our major endeavor, however, is an on-going campus wide project with the ultimate goal of transforming our entire campus into an arboretum," she said.




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

Working with the LCC Horticulture Program Head Bill Scott, the college administration, the Student Government Association, and Horticulture Club, Phi Theta Kappa members have worked to implement Operation Green: Plant for the Future at LCC. A multi-staged two-year master plan has been designed to enhance existing landscaping, and to begin beautification of undeveloped grounds and areas around new buildings on campus.

Showing their support and to kick off Phi Theta Kappa’s project, the college administration donated a 20-foot Trident Maple, assorted shrubs, and bedding plants for a garden area between the Waller and Science and Technology Building. Student volunteers planted the tree and shrubs, and will maintain the area.

Plant for Your Future is continuing with a Christmas project, Give the Gift That Keeps on Growing. Working through the SGA, local businesses, campus organizations, and Unit Deans, Angel Trees have been designed and prepared for each building with gift suggestions for future students and designated areas on campus.

Students, faculty, and staff can choose an angel that requests certain plants, bags of mulch, fertilizer, trees, or a general donation amount. Working through the Horticulture Department, the items will then be purchased and planted in specified areas.

"Through working in the Keep America Beautiful program in our chapter, helping educate students, and beautifying our campus and Lenoir County, Omicron Rho has found that we are as “Good As Gold”…by being green," Crossland said.

 

 

 

 

 


Members of the LCC Omicron Rho Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa assisted by the LCC Horticulture Club partnered together for Operation Green by landscaping a garden area between the Waller and the Science and Technology Building.

 






Page updated: December 14, 2006
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