Lake Highlands High School’s front lawn got a facelift over the weekend.
Following Lake Highlands’ rout of Irving MacArthur Friday night, Exchange Club of Lake Highlands members headed to the high school campus on Oct. 4 armed with buckets of red paint and landscaping gloves. By the time the 16 volunteers finished their work, the iconic interlocking ‘LH’ logo in front of the school’s main doors had been refinished in fresh Wildcat Red.
The logo was last repainted by ECLH members during the pandemic in 2020, but members say there was still some work left to be done.
“We did the best we could then,” Exchange Club President Bill Boyd said. “But you know, watching it, we’re up at the high school constantly, folks drive by there constantly. It was looking kind of ratty again.”
Members had not addressed the patch of land, which is prone to weeds, around the logo in 2020. So, along with repainting it, volunteers added landscaping fabric to the base and lava rocks around the logo Saturday to prevent further damage and accentuate it with Lake Highlands’ secondary color.
Boyd says he coordinated with LHHS Principal Kerri Jones on the effort.
“Hopefully the weeds will stay gone for a much longer time,” Boyd said. “We were happy with it. Principal Jones was happy with it. So, yeah, it was a fun morning.”
The initiative is part of Boyd’s wider push to move the Club towards hands-on community service in his tenure. Forerunner Mentoring has been identified as a potential partner for a middle school service project in the near future, he says.
For Boyd, service projects like Saturday’s serve as a reminder of the Exchange Club’s place in the community.
“What it says is that you know that our club loves our community, is always on the lookout for how we can help our community and that we’re a proactive group, that when we see a need, it’s something that we can come in and fill,” he said.
The logo before Saturday’s restoration project.
