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Alan Dunstan, Gina Matthews, Norah Matthews, Amy Funk (Metro East Community Air Project) and Kimberly Petzing, Madison County Green Schools Program coordinator.
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Alicia Carrico (Green School coordinator during Columbus Elementary) and Felicity Guttmann.
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Libby Telthorst (center) with St. John Neuman Green School coordinators Jennifer Hudson and Kathy Parker.
Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2014 4:00 pm
County’s Clean Air Bookmark Contest winners named
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Three area class propagandize students were recently respected for their winning entries in a second annual Madison County Clean Air Bookmark Contest. Kindergarten by 6 class students in all Madison County schools were charged with formulating bookmark designs to illustrate ways to urge atmosphere quality. Entries were perceived from 757 students, an boost of some-more than 460 students from a initial contest.
The K – 2nd class leader was Norah Matthews, a tyro during Hamel Elementary. Libby Telthorst of St. John Neumann was a leader in a 3rd – 4th class and Felicity Guttmann of Columbus Elementary prisoner a esteem for 5th and 6th graders. Each leader perceived a certificate and a high clarification Kindle Fire inscription from a Madison County Planning and Development Department.
Madison County Chairman Alan J. Dunstan, who also served as one of a judges for a contest, lauded a efforts of all a participants. “All a entries were really considerable that done selecting a winners really difficult. But a many critical component of a competition was regulating a fun and artistic competition to teach a girl about a significance of creation Madison County and a world, a sustainable, improved place to live now and for centuries to come.”
Joining Chairman Dunstan in judging a entries were Madison County Board member Kelly Tracy and Director of Administration Joe Parente.
The winning designs in a Madison County Clean Air Bookmark Contest will be featured on thousands of bookmarks printed and distributed to all facile propagandize students by a propagandize libraries.
The Madison County Clean Air Bookmark Contest is partial of an endless preparation module for students and educators in elementary, center and high schools via a county. The Madison County Green schools Program is administered by a Madison County Planning and Development Department to foster understanding, believe and appearance in a wide-range of recycling and other programs.
According to Kimberly Petzing, Green School Coordinator for Madison County, a Clean Air Bookmark Contest was a partnership involving Madison County Government, a Metro East Community Air Project and Madison County Transit/Ridefinders. “To exercise effective programs that have a certain impact on a girl and a environment, it is critical we all work together,” Petzing said.
“Representatives from any of a primary sponsors worked to safeguard a module had a poignant educational value, that it was fun and that it would have an impact,” Petzing added. “I’m really happy to contend we achieved all of a objectives.”
Other sponsors of a competition were a Madison County Partnership for Community Health and a St. Louis Clean Air Partnership.
The Madison County Partnership for Community Health is a voice of village health for Madison County residents. Its goal is to work together as meddlesome individuals, professionals and organizations to urge a health standing of residents of Madison County by assisting to create, promote, and say healthy environments and lifestyles by education, bargain and action.
A finish inventory of all a Madison County Green School programs can be found in a Planning and Development Department’s ‘Program Descriptions’ on a Madison County website during www.co.madison.il.us.
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