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NOVA SCOTIA RECYCLES CONTEST WINNERS TO BE HONOURED

(Wednesday, February 21, 2007) - Today, the RRFB Nova Scotia, along with 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 p.m. to 7 p.m. The winning and runner-up students to be honoured at this event are listed in the attached table.

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 t-shirts made from recycled pop bottles, designed advertisements using old magazines, created television ads and wrote essays on improving waste diversion in Nova Scotia.

“By participating in the Nova Scotia Recycles Contest, students and their teachers have shown genuine enthusiasm for reducing waste and protecting our environment. We congratulate all of the winners and thank all the schools for participating,” says Bill Ring, CEO of RRFB Nova Scotia.

Over 9,400 contest entries were received from students in grades primary to 12. Winners and runners-up were selected in each of Nova Scotia’s seven solid waste-resource management regions. More than $40,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded to winning students and their schools, including over $20,000 in scholarships for Grade 12 students.

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

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

Alanna McPhee, RRFB Nova Scotia, 902-897-3252 or 902-890-7321
Shannon Betts, Halifax Regional Municipality, 902-490-7153 or 902-476-2470

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NOVA SCOTIA RECYCLES CONTEST WINNERS/ RUNNERS-UP
REGION 4: HALIFAX REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY

Grade	Winner	Runner-Up	Runner-Up
Primary-One	Teacher: Mrs. Creaser/ Mrs. Hutchinson Sambro Ketch Harbour Elementary	Teacher: Mrs. Conrod Brookhouse Elementary	Teacher: Mrs. Wisen Oldfield Consolidated Elementary
Two-Three	Erin Yeadon Westmount Elementary *PROVINCIAL WINNER	Rory Flynn Sacred Heart School	Jeremy Francis John W. MacLeod Fleming Tower Elementary
Four-Six	Sarah Redden Upper Musquodoboit Consolidated Elementary	Tanis Bird Ecole Bois-Joli	Katie Gordon Crossroads Academy
Seven - Nine	Julia LeBlanc Ecole Beaubassin	Jessie Dale Herring Cove Junior High	Ryan Malenfant Ecole Beaubassin
Twelve	Laura Smith Sackville High School	Kelly Foster J.L. Illsley High School