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Upcoming Community Earth Day Celebration at Skyline High School

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Let’s join together in love to care for our Earth at Skyline High School. This event will be held on April 27, 2019, from 9am-2pm. Bring your plastic films for TREX recycling! Also bring your electronics to recycle (small fee applies for certain TVs/monitors – learn more at www.ALCRecycling.net).

Here is the Earth Day schedule:

9am – Front Royal/Warren County Tree Stewards: Arbor Day/Earth Day Tree Planting, Plaque Presentation

9:30am – Tree Stewards Greenway Walk & Community ‘Plogging’ Kickoff

10am – 2pm Participating Groups Include:

  • AMP Public Power Partners: Front Royal Solar Site Display
  • FR/WC Anti-Litter Council – Promotional Items
  • ‘Buy One/Give One’ (Bag/Book) Fundraiser Sales (SHS Environmental Action Project)
  • Warren County Solid Waste Management
  • Student Environmental projects
  • Lord Fairfax Soil & Water Conservation District
  • Rappahannock Electric Cooperative and their electric car
  • Front Royal United Methodist Church Creation Care Committee
  • Friends of the North Fork
  • Beekeepers of the Northern Shenandoah
  • Form & Function (Forest to Furniture)
  • SHS FFA – Native Seed Planting
  • Northern Shenandoah Valley Master Gardener Association
  • Forrest Environmental Services – Geology Lessons
  • Samuels Public Library – Story Time           
  • Art Displays – WCMS
  • Crafts – SHS FCCLA
  • Live Music – SHS Chorus
  • Outdoor Recreation: SHS Football and Girls Basketball
  • Yoga
  • Mary’s Creative Health – Make & Take a Green Cleaner
  • Salamander lessons with a Virginia Master Naturalist – showcase of vernal pool research
  • Front Royal Grotto – Information to share (Caves, Bats, Isopods)
  • Blue Birds – Roxie Leonard
  • eMammal display with Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute ID Game & Wildlife Monitoring with radio collars and antennae activity
  • C & C Frozen Treats
  • Warren County Culinary Arts – Lunch
  • Raffle to raise money for recycle bins on Town/County Walking Trails
    • Donations from: Mountain Trails, Blue Ridge Shadows GC (4-Free Greens & Cart Fees), Thunwa Thai (2-$25 gift cards), Mountain Mystic (1-$25 gift card), Jalisco (1-$20 gift card), Shaklee Green Cleaning Gift Basket, Action for Cheetahs in Kenya soccer ball

Contact Kara Lewallen for more information about this event: klewallen@wcps.k12.va.us.


To finish off this eventful day, Skyline High School students will be presenting: “Grease” (The School Version – Suitable for ALL ages) at 7pm.

Tickets at the door:

  • $10.00 Adults
  • $7.00 Students/Staff/Senior Citizens/Kids
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