Zanesville High School Students Help to Clean the Community

ZANESVILLE, OH – Students at Zanesville High School helped to make the area they call home a better place.

In partnership with the Zanesville-Muskingum County Health Department, High School students had the opportunity to volunteer to clean up tobacco and e-cigarette litter.

Julia Zalmanek, the Health Educator with the Health Department, said to help boost participation, they made this into a competition between the three schools that took part on the other “Take Down Tobacco Cleanup Days”.

“This year was a little bit different, we made it a competition between schools,” Zalmanek said. “So having this big of a turn out from one school is incredible, I think the weather had a lot to do with that, in previous years we’ve had to reschedule but thankfully the weather’s been great. This is the largest group that we’ve had and it makes me feel good knowing that there are students that want to help clean up their community and get some community service hours.”

Dana Murdock, a Senior at Zanesville, said she participated in Tobacco Take Down Day because she needed a few more community services hours.

She said it’s great to see all her friends and classmates out cleaning up the community.

“But like she said, they made this a competition, and I like being involved in competitions,” Murdock said. “I like winning, so it’s a win-win.”

The students say their estimated final total of tobacco and e-cigarette waste picked up will be between 5 and 7lbs.