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Students’ Posters Campaign For A Cleaner Earth

By Kendra Bobowick

“Please recycle or else our world will fall apart,” reads the message written on the page with a crayon pulled by a child’s hand.

Strung up for display, the hand-drawn Recycle Poster Contest for Earth Day 2009 entries crisscrossed the Edmond Town Hall lobby, dragging the eye from one side of the room and back Tuesday afternoon. Local Coordinator for the Housatonic Resource Recovery Authority — the region’s recycling management authority — Eileen Elliott welcomed children and parents to tout the students’ accomplishments. Many posters included a first-, second-, or third-place ribbon. Soon the group would hear from First Selectman Joe Borst, but first the St Rose, Middle Gate, Newtown Middle School, Hawley, and Reed Intermediate School students read the warnings, appeals, and premonitions printed on the posters.

From one drawing to the next the words were brief: “If you don’t recycle, global warming will get worse,” “Animals are not the only ones who should carry the world on their shoulders,” “If you do just a little bit to help the environment by doing things like recycling, you’ll help make a big difference.”

Mr Borst lifted a strand of posters and stepped into the lobby. “We’re trying to get a mind-set going,” he told his guests. “We have to think about what we do and recycle our resources; one day our resources will be used up.” Only a few minutes away from handing out awards to contest winners, he said, “Let’s try to keep in mind, recycle.”

Among the parents at town hall Tuesday, Carmel Fiordelisi thought the contest and recycling awareness was “wonderful.” She said, “It’s time where we need to use resources effectively.” Her daughter Claire had a winning poster on display Tuesday afternoon, with a pair of hands colored in like the oceans and continents stretching from wrist to fingertip. Claire’s message was simple and true: “With our hands we can recycle the Earth.”

Considering the time her child and other students spent on their posters, Ms Fiordelisi added, “I think the kids learn a lot in the process.”

Among winners were a handful of proud St Rose students posing with Mr Borst — Olivia Heineken, Katarina Ringes, Hunter Kirkman, Joseph Rios, and Matthew Pindell. Holding his poster and still contemplating its meaning, Reed Intermediate School fifth grade winner Jackson O’Bryan could have folded his poster in half down the center. Each side of his paper told a different story. His wanted to show what would happen without recycling — The clean, vibrant, healthy plants and ponds and Earth on the left could easily be the polluted, dirty, decayed and trash-littered Earth on the right. His words: “Stand up; stand out; stand together.”

Winners also include Middle Gate students Rachel Tramposch and Allison Indelicato, Hawley School students Tom Cotton and Peyton Cutolo, and Middle School students Nick Marcinek, Sally Martinelli, Clair Miles, and Kelly Brasard.

Parent and member of the local recycle task force Arlene Miles thinks the students “get the recycle message.”

(See related story about lose The Litter Day, this issue)

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