Dionte Berry News Editor dberry11@murraystate.edu After the death of senior pre-veterinary major Sarah Townsend, the Murray State community has come together to remember her by planting a tree at the Murray State Arboretum. The Pre-vet Club planted a Weeping Extraordinaire tree on Saturday, May 1, in a ceremony by the…
Posted By: News Editor
April 9, 2021
Emery Wainscott
ewainscott@murraystate.edu
The Animal Health Technology/Pre-Vet Club plans to memorialize Murray State student Sarah Townsend by building a recycled bench.
The bench will be made out of recycled bottle caps. Once these are collected, the caps will be sent to Green Tree Plastics, where they will be sorted, weighed and cleaned before being melted down.
Two students, junior Emmalee Storm and senior Kylee Harden, came up with the idea after some members of the Pre-Vet Club suggested different ways to memorialize Townsend.
Storm said she volunteered to help Harden with the bench because they’ve both had experience with building recycled benches in high school.