Contribution to Skyline High School Environmental Science, Ecology & Green Team for Action Project
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Buy 1-Give 1 Bags & Books for Kindergarteners
REFERENCE: FR-WC Anti-Litter Council contributes $1,500.00 towards project for purchase of Organic Cotton Fair Trade Lunch bags and Ellie Jackson children’s books: “Duffy’s Lucky Escape”, “Marli’s Tangled Tale” and “Nelson’s Dangerous Dive”
Skyline High School Environmental Science, Ecology and Green Team with moderator Kara Lewallen and ALC President, Matt Wendling posing with check for $1,500 for Bags & Books for Kindergartener’s project
The FR-WC ALC recently contributed funding to assist the students at Skyline High School’s Green Team and adviser Kara Lewallen in purchasing lunch bags and books that promote benefits of using organic materials that can be reused, the concepts of “fair trade” and recycling/disposal of plastics and non-organic waste. The funds will allow them to purchase the books and bags in order to sell them as a combo to “Buy One, Give One”. For the cost of $35 a book and bag will then be donated to a kindergartner. Any funds raised will be put toward the purchase of additional bags and books, recycling bins for Town and County walking trails, a wildlife/pollinator garden at the high school, and a community Earth Day celebration to be held April 27th at Skyline High School.
The Anti-Litter Council recently purchased litter pick-up tools, work gloves, portable trash carriers, trash bags, traffic cones and signs to loan out for roadside clean-up events scheduled by local school and civic organizations. The Council is developing a “Green Service” award for these roadside clean-up efforts. These events will also qualify the participants to enter the annual awards contest in which monetary prizes are awarded for litter control and recycling projects that impact the community in a positive way. The Council will loan these items out on a weekly basis at no charge to a designated representative of the organization with a signed agreement that the materials will be returned within 5 business days. Those interested in this program can contact Joe Petty or Matt Wendling in the County Planning Department, in suite 400 of the Warren County Government Center by phone: (540)636-3354 or via e-mail:
The FR-WC Anti-Litter Council now have cargo nets in three sizes for large and small pick-up trucks and utility trailers to be given away to Town and County residents at no cost. The nets can be picked up at the Warren County Planning Department in Suite 400 in the Warren County Government Center during office hours between 9:00AM and 5:00PM.
