Date: December 6, 2007
An environmental project in the Rochester City School District is having an impact both inside and outside of the classroom.
Twelve delivery trucks that serve city schools have been retrofitted to reduce their diesel emissions. These trucks are now on the road, adorned with artwork created by students who are learning about protecting the environment.
The trucks will be displayed and the student artists recognized at an event on Friday, Dec. 7 at Henry Lomb School No. 20, 54 Oakman Street, at 10:00 a.m.
The diesel refrigerator trucks bear the slogan “This truck is delivering cleaner air to you!” alongside colorful drawings by Diamond Bostick, grade 6, and Lemsi O’Farrill, grade 3, of School No. 20. In art teacher Nancy Nevinskas’ class, the students and their classmates learned about pollution and its harmful effects on the environment. They then created artwork with a clean-environment theme.
From among 50 pieces of art created by the students, the drawings by Diamond and Lemsi were selected to be transferred onto the retrofitted trucks as part of the project, coordinated by the District’s Department of Environmental Health & Safety, Department of the Arts, and Transportation Department.
The project was made possible through a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Center for Environmental Information in Rochester. It is part of the Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) grant program, which supports communities in creating collaborative partnerships to reduce exposure to pollution.
In addition to the Rochester City School District, other non-profit organizations involved in projects through the CARE grant include Action for a Better Community, the Rochester Green Business Network, and NeighborWorks Rochester.
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