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Peers n' Gears
Contributed by Joe Quercia -
Executive Director, Boys & Girls Club of Yarmouth:
Peers n’
Gears will be
starting in January, you ask what it is? The RCMP kindly donated a
whack of bikes to the Boys and Girls Club. These bikes are of all shapes
and sizes and many needed a total overhaul. The former Mountain Bike
Competitor and Toronto Bicycle Messenger saw stars and a wonderful
program for the Grade 6 class at Yarmouth South Centennial School.
The Boys and Girls Club has
been raising the funds through grants and private donations in order to
purchase all the necessary tools and supplies to refurbish these bikes.
The Grade 6 class will learn team building skills, bike mechanic skills
and then they will learn to market a Bike Sale in which they will sell
the bikes they have fixed for a “pay what you can” price.
The goal is to teach the Grade
6 class leadership skills, team building skills, mechanic skills and
marketing skills… giving them a high sense of self satisfaction at being
able to give back to the community at large. With this program's success
will come a yearly drive and the program will continue being repeated by
the funds that the previous class brought in.
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January 17, 2007 (Updated)
Weymouth Consolidated
Contributed by Larry Kelly,
Principal:
Grade three
student Alexa S. was the winner of region 7 for the Nova Scotia Recycles
Contest. $500 was awarded to the school and various prizes for her.
Alexa, Mr. Veinot (her teacher), Principal Larry Kelly, and her parents will
attend the banquet in February.
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Carleton School
Contributed by Linda Gallagher,
Principal:
Sharon Wagner's Grade 1 class at
Carleton school won the Nova Scotia Recycles Contest. Everyone in the class
coloured a picture about recycling, reusing, reducing and composting. The class
won $500.00 for the school, a pizza party for the class and representatives from
the class will attend a banquet in February.
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Barrington Municipal High School
Contributed by Barrington Municipal High:
Devon R., GOMI 2006 Participant, entered a
Nova Scotia Recycles Contest as a student of B.M.H.S. (Barrington Municipal
High School) - 750 students & 50 staff, B.M.H.S.is situated in an area
bordered by evergreens, streams and local plants. Devon's PowerPoint
Presentation was called "Go for Green" and was based on a "5 'P' Plan".
The five areas that would promote reducing,
recycling and reusing are:
1. Poster Promotion - How B.M.H.S. Goes
Green
2. Power Program - Turn off lights, save
30 mins. per 40 classes
3. Paper Piles - Double-side copies and
reuse single-sided
4. Plant Protection - Develop an
"outdoor classroom", Green
Cone Compost,Birding and
Butterfly Habitats
5. Piping Plovers - Restoration and
Replanting a Piping Plover
Beach
Devon won the $1000 prize for our school
Environment Club as well as Mountain Equipment Backpack, Theater Movie Pass
and T-Shirt which was the top prize. Devon is invited to attend the Regional
Awards Celebration in Halifax in February. Some of this prize money is
already being used to help sponsor an Environment Winter Excursion Weekend.
Devon gained a lot of his confidence as a
result of the GOMI 2006 Conference and is a great contributor to his
Environment Club as a Founding Member. Staff Advisor is Helen Goreham,
Environment Co-Ordinator and GOMI Guide Team Member.
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Digby Neck
Consolidated Student wins Regional Contest; another DNCS student is named
Regional Runner-up.
*RRFB (Resource
Recovery Fund Board Inc.)
Submitted by Tony
Kelly, DNCS principal/teacher:
Each fall, RRFB
Nova Scotia promotes the Nova Scotia Recycles Contest to students across the
province. The purpose of this campaign is to promote participation in recycling
and composting programs and to celebrate the role Nova Scotian youth have played
in making this province a recognized leader in waste management.
Taylor H., a grade
5 student at DNCS has won the regional prize for her T-shirt design and her
recycling message. Her work will now be part of the 2007 Nova Scotia Recycles
RRFB promotional campaign. She has won several prizes including a Mountain
Equipment Coop backpack and $500.00 for the school, and an invitation to the
regional banquet.
In the younger
category of participants, Chelsea N., a Grade 2 student was in the runner-up
position for the regional award. She wins a backpack and an invitation to the
regional banquet.
Congratulations
Taylor and Chelsea on producing excellent educational and inspirational pieces
of work in this region of Nova Scotia and for helping us all to understand and
act upon the huge environmental challenges we all face!
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Digby Regional High School French Immersion
student wins RRFB* Nova Scotia Recycles Contest; another DRHS student is named
Regional Runner-up.
*RRFB
(Resource Recovery Fund Board Inc.)
Submitted by Alain Saulnier, DRHS French Immersion
teacher:
Grade 7 French
Immersion student Faith T. - A. won the RRFB Nova Scotia Recycles Contest
by submitting, along with her classmates, an individual collage
advertisement/poster using old magazines that celebrate the theme of `Ten Years
of Recycling in Nova Scotia'. Faith has been selected the sole provincial winner
having put together the most impressive poster in Nova Scotia from grades 7 to 9
inclusively. Faith sent two entries; one in French and one in English. Her
winning poster was: "…simply beautiful, with NS tartan colors, the majestic
sailing ship along our sparkling shores and the positive messages encouraging
our recycling efforts", said RRFB spokesman Lowden Ashley. Faith's work of art
and recycling message will now be part of the 2007 Nova Scotia Recycles RRFB
promotional campaign.
All DRHS French
Immersion students from grades 7 to 9 were encouraged, and given class time, to
produce a poster in French. In fact, our school produced another winner with the
work of grade 8 French Immersion student Timothy B. Timothy was named
regional runner-up with his poster made entirely in French. Timothy prepared a
well thought out theme demonstrating visually and by word how recycling can be
done and the results that are gained by our efforts.
Although the
province of Nova Scotia is not officially bilingual, it is a wonderful statement
that RRFB and the NS Department of Environment & Labour recognizes our French
students by organizing contests such as these in both of our countries official
languages.
Each fall, RRFB
Nova Scotia promotes the Nova Scotia Recycles Contest to students across the
province. The purpose of this campaign is to promote participation in recycling
and composting programs and to celebrate the role Nova Scotian youth have played
in making this province a recognized leader in waste management.
The Nova Scotia
Recycles Contest is open to students in grades primary to twelve and entries can
be submitted in either English or French. Winning students in grades primary to
eleven receive great prize packages and their schools are presented with $500
cash. As well, $15,750 dollars worth of scholarships are awarded to grade 12
students in each region, including a $5000 dollar scholarship to the grade 12
provincial winner!
A judging
committee chooses one winner and one runner-up from each of Nova Scotia's seven
waste management regions for every contest category! Winners and runners-up,
along with their families and representatives from their schools, are invited to
an awards celebration in their region.
Congratulations
Faith and Timothy on producing the finest educational and inspirational pieces
of work in Nova Scotia for one of the most important issues facing the 21st
century; preserving the environment and encouraging sustainable development.
Bravo! |