Campus Life — June 14, 2012 at 1:08 pm

Keeping campus clean and green

by

Genevieve Huard

Co-editor

Thirty-eight trees fell on-campus in this year’s ice storm, yet flowers are blooming and spring has still sprung on Pierce College.

Keeping the campus pruned and bloomed is quite a challenge considering it takes between two and a half to three days to mow the grass on-campus.

Pierce College’s two gardeners, Keyth Mallam and Monty Adams, with monthly help from a prison work crew maintain the entire 85-acre campus.

“Without them [the workforce] it would be a completely different story around here,” Mallam said.

Students may have noticed the missing trees and 10 closed off parking spots that are being used to store gravel in the A lot near the maintenance shop because the shop is getting a fence put around it to secure the area and the equipment stored there.

There are a few additional parking spaced closed off for rented equipment for the fencing project and for storing a sand spreader that will replace the former method of manually dumping buckets of sand off the back of a utility vehicle in icy weather.

Weeds can be a problem around campus, too. Especially the horsetail, which is very hard to kill and has an elaborate root system. According to Mallam, when they dug up the weeds by the Garnero Child Center, they found horsetail roots that were 25 feet long.

The horsetail has not been a problem in the new landscaping surrounding the Arts and Allied Health building and Health Education Center which because of their green certification have completely different landscaping than the rest of the campus.

The AAH is surrounded by bark instead of groundcover and has a low-maintenance wildflower border. The 4,000 ferns surrounding the AAH were harvested from the woods on campus and planted by the work crew.

The pond in between the AAH and the HEC is also being fenced off for safety.

“There is always something that we want to improve on…like we want to put fertilizer all around the rhododendrons on campus,” Mallam said. “It never stops.”

186 Comments

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  60. Lol it’s true though

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  62. u shouldve seen sixth period then XDD

  63. O.o why what happened??

  64. well it started with “Carlos Jones” XD, his table was wobbling, and he flip the table and tried to fix the leg of it, then he tried a notebook to balance it out, then to a snapple bottle XD, making a complete fool of himself XD

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  68. the video is about me failing for a while and finally be able to get it XD

  69. I’m in my Algebra class right now, but we are in the computer lab doing stuff xD

  70. It’s so freaking boring right now…I’m supposed to be doing math but i could care less.

  71. lol we’re suppose to be doing a flyer about our project but we’re not doing much right now

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  73. cant wait to post my video that i mostly failed in XD

  74. I’ll watch it later…right now, we can’t use youtube xD

  75. i know, but i didnt post it yet XD

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  77. lol i dont have to listen to u :P

  78. lol….. well its the end of the period for us XD, ill cya later perhaps in flyff

  79. ok bye ^^

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  81. lol I forgot to watch it last night sorry :(

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  89. lol XD

  90. back in the computer lab XD

  91. so umm…what r u up to today?

  92. omg I’m not gonna get home til later cuz i have volleyball practice D:

  93. i didnt had computer class bc it was a C block but i will tomorrow and friday

  94. I just realized that it was valentine’s day :o

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  96. Lol, i dont have to listen to u XD, oh btw how did my video looked :3, and what should i post next XD

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  98. Did you guy know Whittny Houston died!!!!!!!!

  99. man i thought i was going to lose my computer but i had to restart the whole thing, which means return it to its factory settings

  100. Prepare for my next 2 videos coming out by tomorrow :D , hope u guys will enjoy it :)

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  102. Sir…ur friends scare me sometimes

  103. lol… well my new video came out today, hope u guys will enjoy it

  104. the next one will come out later today :)

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  110. umm…did that guy just ask if someone wanted to touch his cock? and did ur friend actually say yes? what is wrong with u people???

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  112. i understand XD, i just think they r all creepers

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  116. ¿¿What do u mean??

  117. what im trying to say is that, i like to mess with students at my old middle school. :P

  118. idk what to put on my channel next XD

  119. I just find it funny that u and i dont talk on flyff anymore but we talk on this website lol

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  122. yeah no kidding XD

  123. im tired…last period of the day and i still have to go to volleyball practice D: it sucks

  124. awww, well now i got to deal with my parents, right now i manage to free my computer bc it was locked in a bag, but i manage to open the bag wide enough to get my computer back :P , but i have to put it back D:

  125. oh and um… and for some reason, ive became more alone in flyff than ever before, i havent been able to talk to anyone that i know of… even ive been talking to chibi less and less than before.idk why

  126. I can try to come on today if u want

  127. well if u want to

  128. it might have to be later though cuz i have practice in a half an hour so no point in getting on :/

  129. i know, but im on till like 3pm on my time, which is now…. but take ur time. and thx for helping

  130. So boring in first period >.<

  131. haha Sadie Hawkins dance…so much fun :3

  132. lol…., what is that anyway XD

  133. its a dance that the girls get to invite guys to, but i just took a friend lol we went as finn and jake

  134. does ur school have a dance like that?

  135. well we didnt go in costumes XD, but there was one, but that already passed XD, i still have next year, maybe, or prom XD

  136. New Video of Offensive Combat, its a melee battle to the death :D

  137. lol im in computer class and we r making fun of a picture of a sun xD

  138. lol sounds like fun XD, a little better than my computer class lol XD

  139. yeah its funny vuz my friend got this funny gif of kanye west and he was making it rain ^~^

  140. cuz*

  141. lol XD, better than my computer class XD

  142. yeah its pretty fun…don’t u get on flyff anymore?

  143. i get on sometimes, why though?? btw my char SirJake got hacked D:

  144. thx for the advice u told me, i felt a little more better after i left :) an

  145. hopefully things will be better for me in rl

  146. I hope things do get better for you :)

  147. im so bored right now…im also in a pissy mood :(

  148. GAY EMOTICONS!!!

  149. what happen now??

  150. I hate the emoticons that’s all…they make me mad

  151. wait, the emoticons???

  152. yeah

  153. what is emoticons?

  154. opps that was me^ lol

  155. emoticons are the faces such as: :)

  156. lol so thats what r they called XD

  157. been 3 days since i gotten on my personal computer, i wonder how my minecraft server is doing.

  158. lol I barely use minecraft

  159. lol i just like to use the adventure time texture pack bc its cool and my pet wolf is jake XD

  160. Cool

  161. yea it is, u can see it on my video on my channel Lonely Island part 1 lol

  162. OKIE DOKIE ^^

  163. :D

  164. i will be able to watch it later today

  165. awesome :)

  166. man, im having problems with ppl in this one public server i play on, cant tell the details here, but hopefully it will be better

  167. I hope it does then

  168. probally will not, with the luck i have :\

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