Happy Earth Day!
Sickles Market celebrates with point road school students
From little acorns, mighty oaks grow. And from the ‘seed’ of an idea, Sickles Market, along with students from Point Road School, has taken an annual Earth Day event and grown it into a fun and educational gardening experience that provides lifelong lessons for students. On Friday April 20 at 1:30 p.m. more than 400 students atPoint Road School will present their grocery bags decorated with Earth Day messages to Bob Sickles, third generation owner of Sickles Market, and in a show of thanks, he will hand deliver a lettuce seedling to each child.
It started four years ago when the school’s Green Team approached Bob Sickles, owner of Sickles Market, asking if the market would take part in the school’s Earth Day celebration. The idea – called the Earth Day Groceries Project, a national program – was for Sickles to provide schoolchildren with plain brown shopping bags, which they would decorate with drawings and environmental messages, such as “Save Our Planet” or “Reuse This Bag.” The market would then use the bags at checkouts on Earth Day, spreading the ‘green’ messages to its customers. |
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