Eye on MI | Tackling water pollution

Lakeridge Elementary third-graders help with clean-up at the Luther Burbank Park shoreline on Friday afternoon, May 11, 2012. From left, Ethan Libman, Catherine Grady, Sawyer Sudit, Dylan Marshall, Asher Sudit, Avery Conder, Mikayla Geisner, Zachary Geisner, Brooke Comstock and Maya Toribio. - Rebecca Mar/Staff Photo
Rebecca Mar/Staff Photo
Lakeridge Elementary third-graders help with clean-up at the Luther Burbank Park shoreline on Friday afternoon, May 11, 2012. From left, Ethan Libman, Catherine Grady, Sawyer Sudit, Dylan Marshall, Asher Sudit, Avery Conder, Mikayla Geisner, Zachary Geisner, Brooke Comstock and Maya Toribio.

By REPORTER STAFF
Mercer Island Reporter Staff
May 14, 2012 · Updated 1:24 PM 

Lakeridge Elementary third-graders help clean up the Luther Burbank Park shoreline, for a class project, on Friday afternoon, May 11, 2012. They were given the task of choosing a real-world problem to help solve, and picked water pollution.

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