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Franklin Square Nurses Give Back Packs to
Two Schools
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For the past four years, the nurses
at Franklin Square Hospital have given away free back packs to an area
school. This year the nurses decided to give backpacks to two area
schools. All students at St. Stephens Creative Learning Center in Essex
and Battle Grove Elementary School in Dundalk received a free backpack
filled with goodies for the school year.
“Even though some families are more in need than others, our goal is to
make sure we give a backpack to every student in the school,” said
Rebecca Graystone, Magnet coordinator at Franklin Square. “We want the
entire student body to be supported.”
According to Graystone, the hospital pays for 10 percent of the
backpacks with the rest coming from the private funds of the hospital
workers.
“This started out with nurses and it has expanded to every department
in Franklin Square. The employees go out and purchase the backpacks and
the materials inside the backpack,” Graystone added.
Kim Shanahan is a nurse at Franklin Square Hospital and she was able to
go out to St. Stephens Creative Learning Center and pass out the
backpacks. She has helped purchase the backpacks every year, but this
was the first time she got to see the smiles and reaction of the
children.
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Joppa View Elementary Received Green
School Award
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Joppa View Elementary (JVE), along
with 76 other Maryland Schools, 19 re-certifying Green Schools, and 6
model Green Schools make up the 2010 class of Maryland Green Schools
Awards. The Maryland Green Schools Award Program, developed and
administered by the Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor
Education (MAEOE), challenges schools to integrate the environment into
all aspects of the school culture including professional development
for teachers, curricular integration, modeling of best management
practices inside and outside the school, community involvement, and of
course, celebration.
JVE students and teachers worked very hard over the past several years
on numerous environmental projects that qualified them as a Green
School. Some of those activities included: waste reduction
such as recycling aluminum cans, plastic water bottles, and papers, as
well as “Trash Free Tuesdays” during lunch to help make our world a
cleaner and greener place; energy conservation by turning off light
switches; and habitat restoration which included building and releasing
(10) Oyster Reef Balls into the Chesapeake Bay, creating a “no mow”
zone to establish a meadow, planting trees, flowers, butterfly bushes,
herb gardens, as well as weeding and mulching around the school.
JVE has also developed a strong community partnership with
several local businesses such as Lowe’s of White Marsh, Weis
Supermarket, Home Depot and Walmart who have either donated or
discounted plants, environmental kits, supplies, etc. to the students.
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