St. Ursula Academy students celebrate Earth Day by doing campus grounds cleanup, planting flowers

 In celebration of Earth Day on April 22, St. Ursula Academy social justice classes performed service projects by doing a grounds cleanup. The students pulled weeds by hand, removed ivy from trees and dead growth and leaves from the grass, planted flowers, and performed other chores as needed to prepare the soil for summer. 

“We are engaging in action to celebrate Earth Day and to enforce the seventh theme of Catholic social teaching—‘Care for God's Creation,’" says religion teacher Joan Krueger, who is coordinating the students’ campus cleanup.

St. Ursula Academy is a Catholic, college-preparatory, secondary school for young women.  In 2002 the academy was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School. The campus, located at 1339 E. McMillan Street in East Walnut Hills has been the home of St. Ursula Academy and Convent since 1910.