So what better way to celebrate the dedication and professionalism of the grounds crew than pitching in, if only for a morning, in an annual rite of spring clean-up?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This year\u2019s Spring Clean-up event, held April 16, saw more than two dozen faculty and staff volunteers pulling weeds, spreading mulch and prettying up the planting beds surrounding the campus mall, the science complex, and EWU\u2019s iconic rose garden. Mother nature was kind, providing an overcast but mild, dry day as the Eagle employees divided up into teams and donned their gardening gloves.<\/span><\/p>\n Sabine Rishell, an assistant director of donor engagement with EWU Advancement, was one of those assisting in the effort. \u201cI\u2019ve been pulling weeds, which is new for me. Someone had to point out which ones were weeds,\u201d said Rishell, who grew up in an apparently weed-free area of Kansas. \u201cThere\u2019s new bark everywhere. Something has been accomplished today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Chris Galow, another one of the clean-up crew, is both a maintenance mechanic with the university\u2019s carpenter shop and the president of Washington Federation of State Employees\u2019 Local 931. Galow says the event was mostly about collaborating to create a nice campus environment for students.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAll of us like to see a beautiful campus,\u201d he says. \u201cIt reflects on how we take care of our buildings, as well as our classrooms, and then how we follow through with an environment that supports our students. It\u2019s all connected.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI believe the grounds crew are appreciative of the work we are providing today,\u201d Galow adds. \u201cWe\u2019re just giving them extra hands to help maintain what is a constant area of work in terms of cleaning our grounds. It\u2019s a never-ending battle. Anything that grows you are constantly maintaining.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Faculty and staff get a taste of what it takes to keep Eastern beautiful. Keeping the Cheney campus beautiful requires a year-round effort, and every season has its challenges. Say what you will about fall leaves, winter snows and summer heat, it is undoubtedly spring \u2014 that wonderfully vibrant time of floral fecundity \u2014…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":2800,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-2798","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-campus","stories_tags-spring-summer-2024"],"acf":{"subheading":"","featured_image_format":"cover","display_featured_image":false,"display_byline":false,"display_date_published":false,"featured_video":"","Links":false,"Resources":false,"page_hide_sidebar":false,"page_enable_page_nav":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/2798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/484"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/2798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/2798\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Rylee](\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/06\/Campus-Cleanup-300x215.jpg\")