Volunteers pick up trash at Aiken High | News from the Aiken area

A group of parents, students and faculty members spent part of Saturday morning cleaning up the Aiken High School campus.

Forty-seven people collected 57 bags of trash on the school’s north side campus, Clean Up Aiken co-director Jerry Lang said Saturday afternoon.

Cleanup Aiken worked with the school to organize the cleanup.

“It’s fantastic,” Lang said. “It shows that students, parents and teachers are proud of their community and their school.”

Brent Slack was picking up trash along Dupont Drive behind the school.

He said his daughters, Katie and Resa, are seniors at the school and both play sports.

Slack said she was participating in the cleanup because she wanted to support the school and wanted to do something with the trash she noticed during her daughters’ sporting events.

Seniors Alana Kanches and Riyah Bradley returned a bag to the cleanup tent located in front of the school just before 10 a.m.

Bradley said he participated to make a difference to the community and help improve the school for the next generation of students.

Clean Up Aiken is a nonprofit organization dedicated to removing litter and stopping littering in Aiken County.

For more information about the organization, email [email protected].

To donate, send checks to PO Box 7113; Aiken, SC 29804.