In the May 15 issue of The Chronicle, reporter Layla Garms writes about
an Earth Day project undertaken by a teacher and students at Philo-Hill Magnet
Academy. Here is an excerpt:
Paper
grocery bags colorfully decorated with environmentally-friendly images and
messages by Philo-Hill Magnet School students were delivered to the Waughtown
Street Food Lion on Wednesday, April 23 – the day after Earth Day.
“During the week of
Earth Day, the customers, when they come in, they can select these bags to take
home,” explained Juanita Ramsey, a Philo-Hill business education
teacher whose seventh and eighth grade students designed the bags. “We’re hoping the message goes out into our
community that we need to save our planet.”
Luis Caraballo, Carmen Toledo and Jelisa Workman joined their
teacher at the Food Lion store – which donated plain paper bags for students to
use as canvases – to deliver the artsy creations.
Carmen, a seventh-grader, said she hopes the
project will inform community residents that “many of the things they do can harm everything around them and they need
to be more cleaner about how they treat the earth.”
For the full story go to Winston-Salem Chronicle
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