![Alexander Oki ‘28 picks up trash in the lower parking lot Feb. 20. According to Keep America Beautiful, the majority of the trash found on both roads and waterways consists of fast food wrappers and packaging, receipts and plastic beverage bottles. Clubs like the National Honor Society (NHS) offer students the opportunity to earn service hours by cleaning up the trash in the parking lots. “[The trash] makes us look very unhygienic and unmotivated to be a proper school,” Emberlyse Vidal ‘28 said. “It makes us look like we just don't care about our students' environments.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260220_1355020-2-1200x904.jpg)
Emma’s Recovery: Journey to Congress
How one student fought for herself and others struggling with mental health, eating disorders and more.
media by Ella Daniel
November 2, 2022
While fighting an eating disorder herself, Children’s Hospital Colorado Patient Ambassador Emma Warford ’23 works with Senior Director of Governmental Affairs Zach Zaslow to create preventative mental health laws for youth nationwide. Check out her story here, by RCTV guest contributors Ella Daniel and Sam Record:
To support Warford and others like her, email Colorado Senators John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet to get H.R. 7236, H.R. 4494 and H.R. 4493 implemented, and contact local representatives, to help people nationwide with these preventative mental health laws.
Trigger warning: images and discussion of eating disorders, hospitalization.