Beta Club bags Earth Day sponsors
If you shopped at one of several city grocery stores over the past few days, you may have received special grocery bags emblazoned with hand-painted, environmentally friendly messages.
The hand-painted bags are part of an Earth Day project undertaken by the Beta Club at Boyd Christian School. They were distributed to customers through Earth Day, observed yesterday, at Newtown Foodland, Bi-Lo, Kroger and Tietgens, the stores which donated the bags for the club to decorate.
Beta Club sponsor Stephanie Hobbs said she came across the grocery bag idea at an environmental conference she attended several years ago and thought it would integrate well with Boyd’s many other environmental projects.
“In doing this we want our kids to think about how important the Earth is. We also want the community to become more aware of Earth Day and to take care of the Earth and its resources in general,” she said of the project.
Begun in 1970 by former U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson, the first Earth Day inaugurated the modern environmental movement. Today, Earth Day is an annual event which encourages conservation and sustainable use of the Earth and its resources.