SAVE Club
Click here for our most recent student-made website:
https://sites.google.com/dlspilots.net/save/home <-- We have another site with additional info.
Meetings occur every Day 7 A (club meeting) and various service event times.
Stop by to join! See Mrs. Jacks in the counseling office to get the google classroom code.
Email: njacks@delasallehs.com
Pictured above: the 2023 Detroit Riverfront Conservancy Clean Up Efforts and the January 2024 DLS Clothing Drive
SAVE Club Meetings
Days/times vary. Day 7a.
Location Counseling Office or Room 103
Officers may occasionally meet at additional times
Since 2021: Members manage volunteers as they conduct school-wide
recycling collections on designated days
See Mrs. Jacks in the Counseling Office for more information.
SAVE CLUB Students Against Vandalizing the Environment
Our Mission: Protecting the environment by recycling, cleaning litter, and promoting an environmentally friendly world.
We are currently in charge of all recycling at DLS! We also have helped DLS earn "Green School" as well as Emerald Status and Evergreen (2022-23) through the Macomb County Green Schools Program in the past, including 2018-19 and 2019-20. In 2020-21 we earned Emerald status, most improved, and other designations! Meetings are at least 2 times per month; and members are committed to participating in events as often as once per week. Our purpose is to make DLS a more environmentally friendly place.
Our Goals/Tasks Include:
Coordinate recycling events (paper, plastic, bottles, classroom single stream, plastic bags, and electronics); educate the community to reduce waste, promote reduce, reuse, & recycle; implement new ideas; plan Earth day event(s); complete paperwork to help DLS earn Green-School Status; complete service at or off-campus (service); etc.
2023-24 SAVE Club student leaders:
President: Graham Gill
Vice-President: Cristian Martin Talamantes
Secretary: Joseph Olejniczak
Sergeant of Arms: John Tosch
Mrs. Jacks (see contact tab above) is the moderator for SAVE club.
Pictured below: SAVE Club members facilitate school-wide recycling 2023-24
PAST GREEN EVENTS AT DLS
SAVE Club Recycling Event Open SAVE Club Recycling Event
DLS Electronics Recycling event usually takes place the 2nd week of January every year. See link Electronics Recycling Event Information for example. Check the bulletin and parent email in January for annual plans and updates.
Trex Plastic Bag Recycle Challenge Open Trex Plastic Bag Recycle Challenge. Plastic Bag Recycling <--click there to enlarge doc below. Was active Nov 2019-Apr 2020.
Read about our recent accomplishment: SAVE the Kelly Field Sign!
August 2018: Students planted perennials in two shrub beds near the baseball batting cages. More pictures.
Since 2016 SAVE club added nearly 2 dozen donated, plastic recycle bins with laminated labels across the school, with the help of former senior, Matthew Isopi.
SAVE club, in the past, had a system to collect returnable ($0.10) beverage bottles/cans. This is not currently active.
In the past, DLS partnered with Forgotten Harvest to bring typically unharvested food to those who are hungry.
Green Macomb Initiative March 2017: CLICK HERE FOR A FREE TREE!
Read about: SAVE the Kelly Field Sign!
Fall 2023: SAVE Club and others visit the Detroit Riverfront and clean up nearly 100 bags of litter.
January 2024: Clothing drive for St. Vincent de Paul boasts great results!
Students maintain the bulletin board.
Pictured above: Christopher Francis
Outside our Community
LINKS and INFORMATION
Learn more about environmental awareness, issues, and solutions!
Amazon device recycling: https://amazonrecycling-us.re-teck.com/recycling/home
http://www.pachamama.org/environmental-awareness
http://ecolonomics.org/current-global-issues-solutions-of-environmental-problems/
https://www.personalcreations.com/blog/how-to-recycle-anything
http://www.theoceancleanup.com/prezi/
Detroit Treads (Sandals made from illegally dumped tires in Detroit); support the formerly homeless people who make these products!
Cass Community Coasters (Made from recycled glass and graffiti in Detroit); support the formerly homeless people who make these products!
Soap re-collection: https://cleantheworld.org/get-involved/hotel-recycling-program/
Pictured below: SAVE Club students visiting various ecological related websites, 2024. In 2023, this similar activity inspired students to adopt an endangered Cobra with the money they raised in the can drive, also shown below.
Check out our bulletin board in the 400's hallway:
It's not too late to join: sign up to be a member!
Electronics Recycling <--click there to enlarge doc below
DLS Electronics Recycling event usually takes place the 2nd week of January every year. Check the weekly bulletin and parent email for any updates.
SAVE Club 2021-22 Emerald Status School Certificate.pdf
Students designed and planned a T-Shirt event for Earth day 2021-22