Roxhill Elementary celebrates “Sustainable School” award

Roxhill Elementary School principal Carmela Dellino e-mailed to share this news:

Roxhill Elementary has been selected as a winner of the Terry Husseman Sustainable School Seed Award, sponsored by the Department of Ecology. The grant was written by one of our Kindergarten teachers, Elizabeth Owen-Twombley. A school representative will be presented with the award and $490 stipend in a ceremony in Olympia on May 21. This award has been granted to Roxhill to recognize and support our outstanding recycling and composting efforts. This year, through the outstanding leadership of our PTA President, May Ovalles, we have implemented a lunchtime program to compost all of our food waste and to enhance the existing recycling efforts. Our wonderful custodian, Eric Wong, and cafeteria staff, Marena Laing, have completely supported these efforts. Our 5th and 4th grade students serve as valuable “compost helpers.” This school-wide supported program is one more example of how the Roxhill community is committed to being responsible stewards of our environment.

Side note on a different form of “recycling” — Roxhill Elementary (map) is one of the schools having a sale as part of West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day on Saturday, May 9th. (Other school sales on WSCGSD – West Seattle High School Grad Night Committee, Chief Sealth High School PTSA, Hope Lutheran New Orleans Mission Trip, Alki Co-op Preschool, Lincoln Park Co-op Preschool, Bella Mente; you can get a map starting Sunday at the WSB table at the Sustainable West Seattle Festival, then after that, online at westseattlegaragesale.com or at a list of locations we’ll post there later today.)

3 Replies to "Roxhill Elementary celebrates "Sustainable School" award"

  • livingonthebeach April 30, 2009 (9:17 am)

    Way to go Roxhill Elementary and congrats on the award. It all starts with raising awareness with our youth (the future) to set great examples for us all.

    Keep up the good work!

  • anw April 30, 2009 (4:45 pm)

    Kudos, Roxhill! It would be great if you could share your experience/best practices with other schools. I bet there are others that would like to implement this type of program, but have run into obstacles that you may have solved.

  • kristoff66 May 11, 2009 (10:39 am)

    Congrats to Elizabeth Owen-Twombley for her leadership and to Roxhill for having the vision to implement this forward-thinking program.

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