The James Logan Courier

By Cecile Miras, staff writer

After the 4,000 or so Logan students' two lunch periods in a day and
eight periods of using the classrooms, lots of trash is scattered over
our campus, stuffed into waste cans, dropped on the floor, flushed in
the toilets. By the very next morning, it seems to be fairly clean,
until fifth and sixth period comes again-then the cycle of trash
continues.

If it wasn't for an underappreciated, but important group of people,
our campus would be overflowing with garbage and falling apart. The
maintenance workers at Logan deserve a lot more credit and appreciation
than they get.

Tables are topped with unwanted and half-eaten food, accented with
empty soda bottles and crumpled napkins. After every lunch period, the
campus is overloaded with trash. The many trash cans stationed
throughout the campus are constantly being emptied.. Dealing with the
trash, garbage, and litter are only small tasks that the maintenance
workers are responsible for.

Students at Logan are not fully aware of the work that goes into
keeping our campus clean. On the maintenance crew, there are about
twenty-six workers. There are certain tasks that each worker focuses
on. For example, the heating and cooling, bathrooms, and any repairs
needed around school, are only a few areas that these guys cover. We
usually donít see twenty-six workers on campus at once, because they
switch off periodically throughout the day. But there is a maintenance
crew on campus twenty-four hours a day. That means that Logan is always
being cleaned, even after 2:50pm when our school-day is over.