The PTSA Garnet Gold and Green Committee’s mission is to maximize campus recycling and provide shade trees and general campus beautification.
This year the PTSA will again work with staff and faculty to maximize campus recycling. Student recycling teams are in place this year to collect and recycle paper, plastic bottles and aluminum cans from classrooms and offices at the school. Each classroom and office will have a plastic recycling bin and a separate bin for paper. Students will collect the items from each bin on a regular basis and deposit them in the green recycling dumpster behind the cafeteria, where Leon County will pick up the items.
Faculty members who will coordinate the student Green Teams this year are Sal Guastella and the Spanish Club for high school, Dennis Martina and the ESE students for middle school, and 5thgrade teacher Tati Echevarria Calderon for elementary school. Please contact these teachers for any recycling questions.
The PTSA last year also obtained several white recycling barrels and placed them around campus and in the athletic fields area for additional collection points for bottle and can recycling. Please use these for bottle and can recycling only, and not trash.
On the beautification front, your PTSA dues and fundraising money has been put to good use. We bought and planted more than 60 trees around campus over the past six years to gradually transform a former cow pasture into an inviting and forested place of learning. Areas like the elementary school playground where the trees were planted in 2005 are starting to show the results of trees reaching maturity-providing students with shelter from the harmful rays of the sun-and over the next several years the rest of campus hopefully will follow. The GGG committee will continue with tree planting this winter with the addition of another batch of trees as our budget allows.
Anyone having any questions or ideas or wishing to volunteer for GGG projects please contact committee chair Danni Vogt at dannivogt@embarqmail.com or 877-5641.