NEWS RELEASE – February 23, 2006

NOVA SCOTIA RECYCLES CONTEST WINNERS TO BE HONOURED

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia – On Thursday, February 23rd , RRFB Nova Scotia, along with the Halifax Regional Municipality, will honour local winners in the Nova Scotia Recycles School Contest. A celebration dinner will be held at the Brightwood Golf and Country Club from 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm. The following winners and runners-up will be honoured at the event:

Region 4 Halifax Regional Municipality

Grade    
Primary - One        
Winner                                                                       
Lakefront Consolidated, Tangier 
Teacher: Ms. Delory (Grade P/1) 

Runner Up

Tallahassee Elementary,  EP

Teacher: Mrs. Madonna Young  (Grade 1)

Grade
Two - Three                

Winner

Home School, Dartmouth 

Student: Lindsay Laidlaw 

(Grade 2)  

Runner Up

Smokey Dr. Elem. School,  Lower Sackville

Student: Alyssa MacNeil (Gr.3)

Grade

Four - Six                      
Winner

Tantallon Elem., Tantallon 

Student: Kelti Munroe (Grade 6)

Runner Up

Bell Park Acad. Ctre, Lk. Echo
Student: Nolan Smart (Grade 6)

Grade

Seven - Nine

Winner
Ecole Beaubassin, Halifax            

Student: Erika Kennedy (Gr. 8)

Runner Up

Prince Arthur Junior High, Dart.

Student: Melanie Storm Isles  (Grade 7)

Grade
Ten - Eleven

Winner

Millwood High School, Lwr. Sack.

Students: Mike Bird, Adam Savory, Tatsu Suzuki, Eric Delorey

Grade

Twelve

Winner

Charles P. Allen High School, Bedford

Student: Ellen Palmer

Runner Up

Sir John A Macdonald High, Five Island

Student: Emma McDaniel

Every October, RRFB Nova Scotia, in cooperation with the province’s 55 municipalities, organizes the Nova Scotia Recycles Contest. This year, students were challenged to consider the 3 R’s (reduce, reuse and recycle) and composting as they created artwork for reusable water bottles, designed advertisements using old magazines, and wrote essays on motivating youth to recycle and compost.

“Thanks to the students and teachers who have shown an overwhelming interest in our contest”, says Rick Ramsay, Chair of RRFB Nova Scotia. “Their enthusiasm and dedication to recycling and composting will help ensure a clean environment for future generations.”

Over 8,500 contest entries were received from students in grades primary to twelve. Winners and runners-up were selected in each of Nova Scotia’s seven solid waste-resource management regions. More than $28,000 in prizes will be awarded to schools and students, including $1,000 scholarships for winning Grade 12 students.

RRFB Nova Scotia would like to thank Mountain Equipment Co-op and Empire Theatres for their support of the Nova Scotia Recycles Contest.

For more information, visit www.rrfb.com or contact:

Alanna McPhee, Education Officer, RRFB Nova Scotia, 902-897-3252 or 902-890-7321
Shannon Betts, Waste Resource Analyst, Halifax Regional Municipality, 490-7153 or 476-2470.

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