Mid-Columbia Earth Month

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This year we celebrated the 40^th anniversary of National Earth Day with community cleanup and restoration projects, learning experiences, hikes, wild flower walks, electric car races, can recycling contest, family movie nights and MORE!

Over 95 environmental projects & activities took place

1,632 Pounds of aluminum cans collected & recycled by more than 5855 students at 14 schools

9 tons of paper were shredded and recycled at the CI Shred Shredding Event, saving 157 trees, 3,515 gallons of oil, 27 yards of landfill space, 37,000 kilowatts of energy and 64,750 gallons of water

Almost 100 children participated in wiggle worm story time at Richland Public Library

2 Community gardens were built in Richland and Kennewick

50 participated in the area’s first “Cache In, Trash Out” geocaching event at Bateman Island

18 Pasco city employees and friends spent a combined total of 44.5 hours cleaning up senior yards

River’s Edge High school students proclaimed April 11-17 Environmental Education Week, joining 14 other cities in the nation to do so.

Can Recycling Contest participating schools:  Marcus Whitman, Country Christian School, Westgate Elementary, Emerson Elementary, Bethlehem Lutheran School, Tapteal Elementary, Sunset View Elementary, Virgie Robinson Elementary, Christ the King, Mark Twain Elementary, Highlands Middle School, Park Middle School, Ki-Be Middle School, Pasco High School

Congratulations to the winners of the aluminum can contest!
1st Place – Country Christian (16.2 lbs per student / 340 lbs total)
2nd Place – Emerson SOAR (13.6 lbs per student / 190 lbs total)
3rd Place – Bethlehem Lutheran School (1.98 lbs per student / 297 lbs total)
(Contest winners are determined by lbs collected per student)

~More information to come!~