Turf Students Hold Their Ground

ANDALUSIA, Ala. – They spent the entire school day Friday sprucing up the grounds of the Covington County Board of education complex.

A group of more than a dozen juniors and seniors from Pleasant Home School planted crepe myrtles, annuals and other treasures in front of the brick building on Martin Luther King, Jr. Expressway.

As a part of Pleasant Home's Turf Grass Management Program, 14 young men dramatically improved the looks of the administrative complex and learned a lot in the process.

Class instructor Chris Caldwell directed the students, guiding them toward the proper steps to take during each landscaping procedure, which they'd meticulously learned already in their vocational class at Pleasant Home School.

"Of course, it all starts in the classroom," the Board of Education's Sharon Dye said this Friday.

"This is just a culminating activity for them today," Dye added, noticeably pleased with the efforts of the juniors and seniors. "The landscaping plans were drawn up in the classroom – the decisions on what to plant – everything is all part of their curriculum."

The following students participated in the landscaping improvement effort at the county's Board of Education complex in Andalusia: Willy Cook, Brandon Beverly, David Hamby, Earl Huckabaa, Bo Baggett, Michael Walden, George Rolling, Jeremy Joyner, Casey Boyington, C.J. Stokes, Wesley Goleman, Isaac Edgar, Whitman Rabren and Cole Smith.