News Release
April 21, 2005
Marrama Elementary School Will Present Earth Day Community Service Award To King Soopers Friday, April 22
Marrama Elementary School is participating in the 12th Annual Earth Day Groceries Project. Students have decorated paper grocery bags with environmental messages.
On Earth Day, Friday, April 22 the bags will be distributed to shoppers at the King Soopers grocery store at 48th Ave. and Tower Road in Green Valley Ranch. Besides carrying an environmental message, each bag also will have the Marrama school name and some wonderful artwork done by students.
Students also plan to present King Soopers representatives with a community service award at 11:30 a.m.
"The people in our neighborhood will get a very clear and positive message that the students at our school care about their environment," said Marrama librarian Deborah Kopylov.
This is the twelfth year this international educational effort has been coordinated via the Internet. Please see the project website at www.earthdaybags.org for complete information.
A report from Marrama will be added to the website so others will know about the effort. This nonprofit, grassroots effort was started in 1994 with 43 schools from around the world reporting the decoration and distribution of 13,000 Earth Day Grocery Bags.
In 1999, the number of schools reporting in reached nearly 1,200, with students decorating almost 400,000 Earth Day Grocery Bags. Every report from all the previous years is on the website. There are also thousands of pictures of schools from around the world involved in this project.
Marrama Elementary School, 19100 E. 40th Ave., is pleased and proud to be a part of this effort. The school's telephone number is 303-371-3780.