Mayor Doug McCallum, aka Doug Paaji, joined over 650 students, parents and teachers from Walnut Road Elementary School last weekend for a Kindness to Earth clean-up event, celebrating Surrey’s city-wide Love Where You Live clean-up initiative. “I want to commend and thank all the students, parents and teachers who rose to the challenge to help beautify their school and immediate neighborhood. It is this lead by example approach that will make the city-wide Love Where You Live campaign a success,” McCallum said. Walnut Road Elementary School is a Lend-a-Hand school, which is an ongoing partnership program between the City and the Surrey School District, where students participate in the beautification of their parks by picking up litter. With Mayor McCallum’s launch of the inaugural Love Where You Live campaign earlier this week, Walnut Road Elementary’s Kindness Committee organized the event to show their support of the initiative, running now through October 31. During the event, Mayor McCallum emphasized that small actions can leave a big impact, which was demonstrated with over 50 bags of garbage being removed from school grounds and surrounding areas. The students, parents and teachers were applauded for their leadership in keeping their school grounds clean and welcoming, and Mayor McCallum encouraged other schools to get involved. For more information about Love Where You Live, visit surrey.ca/lovewhereyoulive
