This year students in kindergarten through fifth grade will be participating in the Earth Day grocery bag challenge, a project in which a local grocer (in this case Idylwilde Farms) donates grocery bags that are decorated by students with their individual environmental messages, drawings, and designs. The decorated bags are then returned to the grocery store to be used by customers. This project gives children a sense of empowerment about spreading their Earth Day messages to adults and helps develop a sense of community. The bags will be distributed at Idylwilde Wednesday, April 23. More information on the grocery bag challenge can be found at www.earthdaybags.org.
The Earth Day Fair committee is also renting a table at the HES fifth-grade Nature’s Classroom Resale to be held at the HES gym April 12 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. We will be accepting and selling “gently used” clothing, with all proceeds going to the fifth-graders for their NC trip. In addition to supporting the fifth-grade trip, the clothing resale will help the environment. According to the website www.ehponline.org, 15 percent of Americans choose to purchase their clothes at consignment and resale stores. This saves around 2.5 billion pounds of post-consumer textile waste from entering U.S. landfills.
Residents are invited to drop off any clothes to be sold at Sarah Rosenfield’s house (18 Finn Road) or at Caroline Fish’s home (53 Park Lane). Clothes can also be dropped off at our table on April 12.
Sarah Rosenfield, Finn Road
Chairwoman, Earth Day Fair
