Members of the BASE student group helping clean up Front Street (back row): Alana Harrison, Sophia Martinsen, Brody Hommel, Jackson Carney, Jackson Pearson, (middle): Daniel Harrison, Natalia Ashton, Jacob Allen, (front): Robyn Booker, Terra Hoyt, and Madelyn Davies.
Natalia Ashton helping to clean up Front Street, on Nov. 19.
Last Thursday, Nov. 19, Wrangell secondary school students with the BASE student group participated in the Great American Smokeout by going around town cleaning up cigarette butts. In less than an hour, according to SEARHC Health Educator Tammi Meissner, the students managed to pick up 2.8 pounds of cigarette butts outside of bars and along Front Street. Back in 2019, according to past reporting in the Sentinel, Wrangell High School students cleaned up over 13 pounds of cigarette butts. In 2018, they cleaned up six pounds of cigarette butts.
The Great American Smokeout is sponsored by the American Cancer Society, to encourage people to give up the habit of smoking. According to their website, about 32.4 million American adults smoke and smoking remains the largest preventable cause of death and sickness worldwide.
The BASE student group (Building A Supportive Environment) is a student organization for both Stikine Middle School and Wrangell High School students. It was formed last year in an effort to create positive changes in the school climate and promote student leadership.
Eleven students participated in the cleanup efforts, according to Meissner. The students are Alana Harrison, Natalia Ashton, Jackson Carney, Robyn Booker, Madelyn Davies, Terra Hoyt, Jacob Allen, Jackson Pearson, Sophia Martinsen, Brody Hommel, Daniel Harrison, and chaperone Katelyn Reeves.
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