VGCC Criminal Justice Students tend to adopted road

Criminal Justice Technology students at Vance-Granville Community College recently got a head start on their career aspirations to serve the community, in this case by trying to keep it clean. Members of the VGCC Criminal Justice Club continued their tradition of “adopting” a stretch of Poplar Creek Road near the college’s main campus on Interstate 85 in Vance County. Wearing rubber gloves and orange vests that proclaimed “Keep NC Clean & Green,” the students took the morning of April 22, which was Earth Day, to pick up trash along their adopted road.

For more information on the Criminal Justice Technology program, contact program head Angela Gardner-Ragland at (252) 492-2061, ext. 3226. Gardner-Ragland and instructor Andrea Ferguson serve as advisors for the Criminal Justice Club.

Above: VGCC Criminal Justice students, including (in foreground, from left) Bridget Clark of Oxford and Nick Cornish of Kittrell, pick up trash near the intersection of Interstate 85 and Poplar Creek Road during the Criminal Justice club’s clean-up of their adopted road. (VGCC photo)