New Jersey Earth Day Groceries Reports - 1998
Greetings from Bergen County Special Services. 300 special needs
students, ages 4 to 21, from three schools in our district
participated in the Earth Day Groceries project. The local Grand
Union provided 300 bags for our students to decorate. Our art teachers
provided stencils for students with physical disabilities to imprint
their bags with the ³Earth Day 1998² logo. On Earth Day we had four
students with their parents distribute all the decorated bags at the
Paramus Rt. 17 Grand Union. The store manager had his photographer
there taking pictures of the students distributing the bags to
shoppers. We had a wonderful time participating in this project and
are looking forward to doing it again next year. We hope to send you
a link to our web page in the future. Thank you for this opportunity
to celebrate Earth Day 1998.
Val Devlin, OTR valdev@bergen.org
Earth Day 1998 Coordinator
Hackensack, New Jersey
Based on information received from the Paper Bag Council of the American Forest and Paper Association:
400 bags
-- Garfield School,
-- Longbranch, NJ
Based on information received from the Paper Bag Council of the American Forest and Paper Association:
150 bags
-- Ho-Ho-Kus School,
-- Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ
Based on information received from the Paper Bag Council of the American Forest and Paper Association:
400 bags
-- Freehold Learning Center
-- Freehold, NJ
Hello Again! This is Theresa Emmolo from New Milford, NJ and I am writing to
you with an update for our Earth Day Groceries Project 1998. Our two K-3
elementary schools B.F. Gibbs School and Berkley School both participated and
through the combined efforts of our teachers, administrators, parents,
students, and local Shop Rite, we were able to decorate 650 grocery bags! This
was a wonderful feat for our first year! Everyone was very excited about this
project and worked very hard. The bags were beautiful and meaningful. Many
thanks to everyone who participated. What a wonderful way to share and
celebrate Earth Day!
Sincerely,
Theresa Emmolo (Tmarie93k@aol.com)
Kindergarten Teacher
B.F. Gibbs School
On April 23rd we held our 4th annual Earth Day Fair. About 35
schools were involved. We partnered with the Super Foodtown of Oakhurst, NJ to
provide the Earth Day Grocery Bags as one of our activities for the students
who attended. This was our first year and we decorated 101 bags.
The kids loved having a chance to educate adults. Reports from the store
indicated that the management and shoppers were pleased as well. We plan to
continue with this project next year and we are hopeful that we will be able to
increase the number of decorated bags.
Linda Brennen (lbrennen@shore.co.monmouth.nj.us)
County-wide Earth Day Fair
Monmouth County
Students from our school in grades six, seven, and special education
decorated 207 bags for the Edwards store on Olden Avenue in Trenton. Parents
reported spotting our bags at parent conferences on the day after Earth Day.
The students enjoyed this project immensely. Next year, we will start earlier
in order to decorate a whole bundle!
Rene' Powell (rpowell486@aol.com)
Dr. Martin L. King Middle School
Trenton, NJ
MENLO PARK TERRACE SCHOOL #19 IN WOODBRIDGE TOWNSHIP, N.J. DECORATED
376 GROCERY BAGS DONATED BY A & P IN FORDS, N.J.
Menlo Park Terrace school #19 menloparkterrace@home.com
Ketler School of Westwood, N.J. participated in your Earth Day Grocery
Bag project for the first time this year. Parents and students worked
cooperatively at our environmentally themed back-to-school-night. We
decorated 485 bags which were distributed at a local grocery store.
Parents and students really enjoyed this project. It was wonderful for
the children to share their environmental messages with the community!
REBECCA MARGOLIES rmargolies@westwood.k12.nj.us
Blairstown Elem. School located in beautiful Warren County New
Jersey is proud to have decorated 536 paper grocery bags. The bags were put on
display on the walls at our local A&P the week before Earth Day. The week of
Earth Day the bags were given out filled with groceries. Students in grades
Pre-first through 6th grade took part in this event. The teachers chose one
student representative from each grade level to bring all the beautifully
decorated grocery bags back to the A& P. Some pictures of the students and the
bags will follow. What a great project !!!! A special thanks to Mr. Wayne
Tracy, manager of our local A&P, for donating all the grocery bags and helping
to make this a community effort.
Felix A. Staffaroni (fstaff@ptdprolog.net)
Blairstown Elementary
Blairstown, NJ
The Dover Township Juniorettes (young women ages 11-18) decorated 100
bags.
Please add our name to your totals.
Dover Township Juniorettes bamj@bellatlantic.net
P.O. Box 5333
Toms River, New Jersey 08753
The local grocery store, Acme, provided the school with 500 grocery
bags to be decorated. All the classes K-8 th grades decorated the bags with
different pictures representing Earth day and protecting our environment. The
school will hold and Earth day assembly on Friday, April 24.
This was a great project that both the school and the grocery store enjoyed!
Thank you for sharing your idea!
Anna Rasmussen (Larryanna@msn.com)
St. Virgil's School
http://www.St Virgils.org
Morris Plains, NJ
Hi, my name is Joelle Charette and I am from St. Luke School in
Stratford, NJ. This is our second year participating in this project. The
students from St. Luke really enjoyed decorating the bags. Stratford Market,
located across the street from our school, was kind of enough to donate about
300 of their bags . The manager and staff of Stratford Market were very
supportive and willing to help us celebrate Earth Day. In the next couple of
days they will be passing out the decorated bags to their customers and
announcing over the PA system the purpose of our project. I'd like to
personally thank the people from Stratford Market and you for making this
project possible.
THANK YOU!
Joelle Charette (frooks@hotmail.com)
St. Luke School
Stratford, New Jersey
Sunnybrae students found this project to be both meaningful and fun. They
completed over 300 grocery bags! Happy Earth Day and thank you for a great
project idea.
Liz Mikalaiatis (RMikal@aol.com)
Sunnybrae Elementary School
Yardville, New Jersey
Katherine D. Malone Elementary School of Rockaway Township, N.J.
decorated 189 bags promoting Earth Day Messages. Our PTA coordinated the
project and our local ShopRite in Rockaway N.J. let us borrow bags. The bags
were great displays of art as well as letting our community know that the
students are concerned about the Earth. We are also giving the students variety
seed packets to take home and plant. Thanks for running this website and I'm
glad I found it!!! See you in 1999.
Kathy Botwinick (KKKBot@aol.com)
Katherine D. Malone Elementary
Rockaway Township, NJ
We joined together with our local Shop Rite grocery
store and they donated the grocery bags.
343 bags were decorated with Earth Day messages and
returned to the Shop Rite on 4/20/98 to be
distributed on Wednesday, April 22.
Students and teachers enjoyed this project and it will
most certainly be good PR for the school in our
community.
Paula Green (paulasgreen@hotmail.com)
Somerdale Park School (k-8) http://www.cyberenet.net/~camnet/somerdale
Somerdale, New Jersey
I am a fourth grade teacher at an Upper Elementary School in Mercer County New
Jersey. Our school had five classes partcipate in the Earth Day Groceries
project and we were able to decorate 125 bags. The grocery store we
participated with was McCaffery's of West Windsor. The students really enjoyed
the project. Thanks for the great idea!!!
Tracey Edwards (Snshyn@webtv.net)
West Windsor-Plainsboro UES
West Windsor, New Jersery
My name is Theresa Emmolo and I am a Kindergarten Teacher at the B.F. Gibbs
School in New Milford, New Jersey. I have coordinated an Earth Day Groceries
project in cooperation with our local Shop Rite in New Milford. We will be
decorating 350 bags from our school and I am also working on coordinating a
similiar program at our sister elementary school, the Berkley School in New
Milford, New Jersey. If they are also involved, the number will be up to 650!
As of right now it is at 350 for my school and I will contact you with the
results of the latter. Everyone is very excited about this program and is
looking forward to Earth Day 1998!
Sincerely,
Theresa Emmolo :-) Tmarie93k@aol.com
New Jersey Earth Day Groceries Reports - 1997
I am a teacher at St. Luke School, in Stratford, NJ. I was browsing the net one
day when I came across your project. I thought it was great. After work one day
I went across the street to the ULTRA grocery store. I asked the manager for
300
bags for my school. This man was so supportive. I wrote him a formal letter
explaining the project and then I went to pick the bags up the next day. The
students of St. Luke School took a week preparing their 300 bags. I turned them
in the day before Earth Day. The manager told me that there would be making an
announcement all day about the project over their PA system. I thought that was
neat. I think I included all of the information needed.
Thanks again for the project! Have a great day!
Joelle Charette frooks@hotmail.com
Hello,
Our school is the Peter Muschal School. We are located in Bordentown, New
Jersey. Our school decorated about 650 bags that were then handed out at
our local Acme.
Our students had a great time decorating the bags!
Ann Marie O'Leary aoleary@bordentown.k12.nj.us
Fifth Grade Teacher
I am writing to let you know that Hillside School, Livingston, NJ,
participated in this years project. All students were involved, K through 5.
We made 300 bags. Since our district was off the week of Earthday, we got an
early start and got the bags back to the stores before our break. The
teachers appreciated having a fun worthwhile activity to do with the kids as
a respite from the IOWAs, which coincided with our last week of school. The
only problem for us was finding bags that were blank, since around here those
bags carry advertising. We had to settle for the bags without the handles.
Thats OK, I'm sure there were some very surprised customers! This project was
done with the cooperation of our fantastic PTA. Thanks for all your hard work
in organizing this activity!
Christopher Ebneth EBNETH@aol.com,
special education teacher
Hi, this was our first year participating in Earth Day Grocery Bags.
The whole school enjoyed this project. It was great public relations for both
the school and the local grocery store. We participated with the A&P in
Cliffwood, NJ.
We decorated 431 brown paper bags. Students from K through 6 were able to
send out environmentally friendly messages.
Patricia J. Hillyer Pjhillyer@aol.com
Ravine Drive School
Matawan, NJ
http://www.geocities.com/enchantedforest/5644
Hi everyone! This is the Barclay Brook Elementary School
reporting from Monroe Township, New Jersey. We have decorated
294 Earth Day bags for the love of our earth. Thanks for the
chance to participate!
P. D'Anna anna@monroe.k12.nj.us
Barclay Brook
Monroe Township, New Jersey
We are the Pine Grove Elementary School K-2. We enjoyed this
Earth Day project immensely. All 465 of our students wrote
messages and illustrated bags from four different local markets.
Sharing our Earth Day messages with the community was great!
Jane Goldweber pgmes@injersey.com
Pine Grove Manor Elementary K-2
Somerset, NJ central Jersey near Rutgers
Our 6th grade Roots and Shoots Club sponsored the Earth Day Grocery
Bag project. We collected 536 bags decorated by students in our school from
kindergarten through sixth grade. They will be handed out tomorrow on Earth
Day at the Shoprite in Berlin, N.J.
Sharon Hulbert KFDC86C@prodigy.com
Dwight D. Eisenhower School
West Berlin, New Jersey
School Number Seven in Perth Amboy, New Jersey has participated in your
Earth Day Grocery Bag project. We contributed over 250 bags to the
Shop-Rite in our city. The students enjoyed decorating the bags and
discussing environmental issues. We would enjoy receiving email reports
from other schools. HAPPY EARTH DAY MARK!
Linda Teuver school7media@earthlink.net
Hi Mark, Greetings from School One in Clifton, New Jersey!
Just wanted to inform you that our school decorated 500 grocery bags for
Earth Day! We'd like to be informed of your total national count. You
can either e-mail us or write to us c/o Tracy Sterni, Grade 5 Teacher,
School One, 158 Park Slope, Clifton, NJ 07011.
Happy Earth Day,
From,
School One
WALTER STERNI wrs21@juno.com
Hi!
This is the Freehold Learning Center, a K-5 open school in Freehold
Borough, New Jersey. We are participating in the Earth Day Grocery Bag
project. We are currently decorating 420 grocery bags to get the Earth
Day message out to the people of our town.
Thanks for the idea!
Sincerely,
Students at Freehold Learning Center
Diane Tennis dtennisflc@net.scholastic.com
New Jersey Earth Day Groceries Reports - 1996
We're Upper Township Elementary School in Cape May County, New
Jersey. We decorated 492 grocery bags and delivered them to the Acme Market
in Cedar Square, Seaville, NJ. Our students really enjoyed this project and
being part of Earth Day, 1996. Thank you and your students for all your hard
work. See you in '97!
Tammi Pittaro,
fourth grade teacher,
Upper Township Elem. School
TIRP@aol.com
My name is Debbie Stapenski and I teach computer literacy for 7th and 8th
graders at Applegarth Middle School in Cranbury, NJ.
My students decorated 100 grocery bags which were graciously donated to us
by Edwards Super Food Store in the Concordia Shopping Center, Cranbury, NJ.
They will be delivered this evening so the store will have them.
I am forwarding pictures as soon as they are ready.
We enjoyed doing the project.
Please include me on your list of recipients of other schools' reports.
Happy Earth Day,
Debbie Stapenski
New Jersey Earth Day Groceries Reports - 1995
Thanks for your response. Everything worked out well. Grades two
through six decorated 400 bags and gave them to two different supermarkets
and got a very nice response. I hope you'll send the results of the project.
School address is:
Susan Dechnik
Riverton Public School
5th and Howard Streets
Riverton, New Jersey 08077
Susan912@aol.com
Return to Earth Day Groceries Participants
Return to Earth Day Groceries Home Page
Return to Arbor Heights Elementary School