{"id":48891,"date":"2017-09-29T13:27:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=48891"},"modified":"2017-09-29T15:13:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T22:13:24","slug":"custodial-appreciation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/custodial-appreciation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A time to say thanks: NAU to celebrate Custodial Appreciation Day next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than once, <strong>Eulla Locket<\/strong> has been hard at work keeping the Northern Arizona University campus clean when she happened upon a more pressing need: a student wandering around looking for a residence hall or classroom and having no idea where to go.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not exactly in her job description, but she and her colleagues are committed to NAU\u2019s mission of helping students succeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen school starts up, a lot of students need direction on where to go, and we\u2019ll stop what we\u2019re doing to direct them to the right place,\u201d the custodial area supervisor said. \u201cI know how it feels, and I tell them, \u2018I will get you there.\u2019 We\u2019re out there to help students as much as we can. We\u2019re out there to help students as much as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Locket is one of 108 full-time members of NAU\u2019s University Custodial Team, which works daily to ensure the 118 office buildings, classrooms and residence halls on campus are kept clean and neat\u2014cleaning 6,795,000 square feet in about 200,000 hours each year. NAU is recognizing the custodial team next week, as National Custodial Appreciation Day is Oct. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Director of operations and maintenance <strong>Scott Perelstein<\/strong> encouraged NAU employees to recognize members of the University Custodial Team throughout the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Appreciation goes a long way with this hard-working team,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Take a moment and say hello and thank you. It\u2019s a tough job that gets a little easier with some recognition.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Locket, who has been with NAU for almost 21 years, said she loves working with the people\u2014her team, other employees and the students. Although she is now a supervisor, she still does plenty of hands-on work keeping the campus clean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re a unit, and we get the job done as a unit,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Facilities Services is celebrating with a lunch event at the 1899 Patio on Oct. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/custodial-appreciation-day\/\">More than once, Eulla Locket has been hard at work keeping the Northern Arizona University campus clean when she happened upon a more pressing need: a student wandering around looking for a residence hall or classroom and having no idea where to go. It\u2019s not exactly in her job description, but she and her colleagues&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":46567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}