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Woodland Elementary Field Trip
Greenville
kindergartners test new city “Leaf Sucker”
By Bob Robinson
GREENVILLE - Horns were blaring for more than two hours last week as
about 150 Woodland Elementary kindergarten students tested the
noise-making capabilities of the equipment used by the Greenville City
Street Department, including the city’s newest piece of equipment…
“This is our leaf sucker,” Street Department employee Tony Howard told
21 six and seven year-olds from Mrs. Hill’s class. “It just came in
yesterday.”
He added that the kids were probably among the first to sit in and
“use” the expensive truck. They were definitely the first to check out
the truck’s horn.
Howard said that while the truck was an expensive investment it will
save hundreds of man-hours over its life span.
Instead of having two or three trucks on the street, each with street
department employees picking up leaves, loading and dumping them, then
returning for more, he said, the ‘leaf sucker’ sucks them directly from
the curb through a compactor for dumping later.
After telling the children about the vacuum power of the truck and how
it worked, he let each student climb into the truck to test its
“noise-making” capabilities. The leaf sucker was presented to six
different groups of children as were other pieces of equipment, such as
the city’s tractors, backhoes, lawn mowers and more.
The kindergarten field trip has been a volunteer effort of the
department for four years. Department Supt. Ryan Delk first offered the
tour when his oldest son, Seth, was in kindergarten and he discovered
the school had no field day options that year. It has been an annual
event ever since.
“My middle son, Kaile, is here today,” he added.
Article reprinted
courtesy of The Early Bird
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