Monte Vista School District conducted their annual Pirate Pride Day last Thursday, May 10. MHVS students and staff were found throughout the community participating in volunteer projects and beautifying public spaces like the Monte Vista and San Luis Valley cemeteries, Carnegie Public Library, the visitors center, Monte Vista Golf Club, Conour Animal Shelter and in many other parking lots and residences. Pictured, MVHS students help clean up the Monte Vista Cemetery, making quick work of the pinecones, pine needles, branches and other debris around the headstones.