PBL: Community College

Walla Walla Community College's Go Green! Club had organized a huge Earth Day event which highlights the many opportunities to keep our environment clean and green! This event saw green cleaning products, and electric motorcycles as well as other electric vehicles.
Many organizations inside the college and out have gathered together to help our Mother Earth. Representatives from ACE Hardware, Lewis & Clark College, WWCC's Art Department, and Phi Beta Lambda were all present and sharing valuable information.
PBL was eager to share some business practices that promote green thinking in the workplace and highlighted many International companies by showing some of their creative eco-friendly behavior. The club also illustrated our own green thinking practices ranging from digital communications rather than paper to our efforts to collect and recycle discarded cell phones for the troops at war.

HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES

Home Depot

GE – General Electric

McDonalds

Bank of America
Credit policies
Climate change article

ANHEUSER-BUSCH (BUDWEISER)

Our club put together the biggest hanted house that the Walla Walla valley has seen in decades, rivaling the famed JC events! We want to thank every single person that assisted with this fundraiser and community service event from the hands within the club to the assistance from private members outside the club! We want to thank the many local businesses for coming together and providing many of the items we needed to put this haunted house on and making the community that much closer!

We saw nearly 2,000 people come through our dreary doors and most of them had the courage to finish the spooky maze of maniacal madness! Each of our 20 scenes were widely discussed, often while the victim was watching behind them to ensure that nothing was coming after them!

With this 2,000 people, PBL managed to raise quite a bit of money. After paying for the debts incurred on this event and providing a small amount to the club for future events, PBL found themselves dividing up $8,000 to the following causes (which was approved by the club in this morning's meeting):

$2,000 - College scholarships for business students within our community college

$1,500 - YWCA domestic violence shelters

$1,500 - Council for the Prevention of Child Abuse

$1,500 - Literacy programs in our elementary schools

$500 - Valley Residential Services

$500 - March of Dimes

$500 - divided to 10 families in difficult situations for a better Christmas.

The companies that helped were many and each provided assistance to getting our haunted house off the ground in some manner or another. These companies are listed here:

Greiner Radiators

McDonald Zaring Insurance

Council for the Prevention of Child Abuse

Cascade Fire Protection Co.

Walla Walla Union Bulletin