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Some Valley High School students learned about the Alabama PALS program during their lunch period on Thursday during a visit from Shay Grant, the Clean Campus Coordinator at the Alabama PALS (People Against A Littered State).

The goal of the presentation was “to promote the Clean Campus program, the ecology club, the spring cleanup and the recycled art contest.”

Grant discussed the different programs and events that AL PALS offers including the Clean Campus designation, the Recycled Art contest and the scrapbook contest, all of which the Valley High School ecology club has participated in.

In fact, Valley’s ecology club has won the scrapbook contest two years in a row and has also won the clean campus designation and won honorable mentions in the art contest in the past.

Grant said that the ecology club is “doing a great job.”

“And Chambers County really is involved in the PALS program. They do a lot to promote and they offer great incentives for their community,” she said.

The Alabama PALS (People Against a Littered State) organization advocates for a better-informed and more active community.

The Clean Campus is just one of the many projects they have created.

They also promote their Adopt a Mile, Don’t Drop it on Alabama, Spring Cleanup and Coastal Cleanup programs.

Valley High’s ecology club sponsor and Media Specialist Ellen Emfinger hosted the event to help raise awareness about the club.

The group has created toys out of waste to donate to the Chattahoochee Humane Society.

During the holidays, they also created centerpieces for a local nursing home out of natural materials.

Last year, the club spent several weeks fixing up the school’s old greenhouse and began planting things in it.

They hope to build some raised planter beds that they can use to grow their own garden.

More information can be found about each of the AL PALS programs on the website www.alpals.org.