Trimmer ‘best gift ever’ for biology major

Brand new heels and handbags don’t mean nearly as much to UALR senior Katy Harmon as the new Troy-Bilt trimmer she received on a recent Friday afternoon. Keep Arkansas Beautiful State Commissioner Mark Elrod presented Harmon with the trimmer, a gift supplied by Troy-Bilt company officials, after her name was drawn from a list of more than 800 volunteers who signed up to help with the Great Arkansas American Cleanup last spring. In addition to Harmon, more than 50,000 Arkansans took part in the national cleanup efforts. The biology major from Benton said one of her first goals was to use the trimmer to help the cleanup efforts along Coleman Creek, which meanders through the UALR campus. “People say I’m crazy, but I love outdoor work and just being by the water,” Harmon said, on a sweltering early September day. “I tell them I’d rather be outside than stuck at a desk job any day.” Harmon received her gift, appropriately, at the amphitheater by Coleman Creek where she was surrounded by several faculty mentors and students in the Aquatic Sciences Association. Harmon, who is president of the Aquatic Sciences Association, has interned for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission over the last two summers and is an active volunteer with the Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission. For more information on the Aquatic Sciences Association, contact Harmon at [email protected].

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