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Earth Day 2008
Student
Environment Clubs from Meadowfields Community School, South Centennial
Elementary, and Yarmouth Junior High could be seen around the Yarmouth Wal-Mart
participating in a major Earth Day clean up. These clubs have adopted the
Broad Brook which is located around the Yarmouth Wal-Mart.
Kent Building
Supplies of Yarmouth supplied a truck to remove the collected waste and donated
Plant a Tree gift cards to all the Environment Club members. Seven
other student Environment Clubs from Weymouth Consolidated, Barrington Municipal
High, Evelyn Richardson Memorial Elementary, Forest Ridge Academy, Cape Sable
Island Elementary, Hillcrest Academy, and Port Maitland Consolidated
participated in Earth Day clean up activities as well.
To add an
element of fun and excitement to the clean up efforts, most of the Environment
Clubs also incorporated a geocaching activity called CITO (Cache in Trash
out) into the day's activities. The Tri-County Regional School Board
commends these students and their clubs' organizers for taking an active
approach to help keep our environment clean, healthy, and safe for all to enjoy.
Evelyn Richardson
Memorial Elementary
Twenty-one students from Evelyn
Richardson Memorial Elementary School's Environment Club spent the morning on
the West Branch of the Barrington River collecting waste. As part of the
adopt-a-stream project, students also took water samples from various locations
along the river and collected data regarding plant and insect life from specific
spots. The locations were marked on the Global Positioning System (GPS) and
students will revisit the area again in June to compare plant and insect life.
Students were also introduced to the world wide game of
geocaching. Two caches had been hidden along the stream and with the aid of
several GPS units the students had fun trying to locate them.
Weymouth Consolidated School
Grade 5 students at Weymouth
Consolidated School used GPS units to find a CITO geocache that
contained the items needed to participate in the Earth Day events at the school.
Once the students found the hidden cache containing gloves and garbage bags,
they set to work cleaning up the school ground.
Forest Ridge Academy
Barrington
Municipal High
Port Maitland Consolidated
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