Go Green Week, Earth Week & Global Youth Service Day on LJCC was busy and a successful week during April 16th through the 22nd.
Below are some of the activities that were covered and participated with community partners:

•Soup Kitchen and Bread of Life – SGA and Electrical classes collected recycled copper revenues from stripping unused cabling wire.

• Limestone and Caribou community road cleanups
• Wood “duck houses” for females to nurture eggs – constructed for U.S. Wildlife refugee and State Parks.
• Aroostook State Park cleanup in Presque Isle
• Senior Citizen homes – Tree planting flowerbeds and birdhouses  for Limestone Boarding Home
• Northern Maine Community College Volunteer Volleyball tournament to aid Northern    
Maine Veterans Home.
• Recycle donated cell phone for phone minute cards for troupes overseas.      
• Collected bottles to recycle to donate U.S. American Flags for Veterans Foreign Wars and  outside beatification project.
• Ordered Red Maple tree to be added to Loring Job Corps Memorial park in honor of our
 past culinary arts instructor Wayne Cousins.
Total Involvement: #Students – 138, #Staff – 24 and #Hours – 1003

More GREEN Details from:
 Honor Guard Command Sergeant Roger Felix, MPI (Military Prep Instructor) (Student Government Advisor)
• The Loring Electrical class recently completed a massive go green project that involves the students to recycle residential wire after stripping the plastic coating off the wire. The wire is worth 3 times greater stripped and ready for turn in. To do so requires many hours of work and dedication. The dedication paid off in their recent project, they stripped $300 worth of wire in support of green day and global youth week. The students then decided with the support of the Loring student government to give the money earned to worthy charities including the Catholic charities food bank and the MS society. Pictured in the photo are the residential electrical students along with electrical student Tyhem Jones who also serves as a leader in the Student Government shown holding the $200 check for one of the charity organizations. 

• Members of the Loring Honor Guard defenders recently conducted a major clean up of the highway and entrance to the Aroostook U.S. National Wildlife refuge. The students completed the annual project in support of global youth week and supported the event by providing many hours of support to ensure the wildlife refuge is clean and ready for people to enjoy. Pictured in the photo are members of the Loring Job Corps Military Prep. Program Defenders.
 
• The Loring Honor Guard Defenders recently conducted a recycling project in support of global youth week volunteering their time and efforts in obtaining replacement flags for the town of Caribou and the Caribou Veterans of Foreign Wars. The flags will be used to celebrate Memorial Day, Flag Day and Veterans Day. The students donated 10 flags in support of the annual replacement.