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02/06/2019 11:01 PM

Environmental Club Brings Water Bottle Filling Stations to Guilford High School


From left, Guilford High School (GHS) Environmental Club members Katie Meder, Charlotte Wiley, Emma Gabel, Maeve Grattan, Allie Stankewich, Maria Lynders, Jared Lynch, Clara Meyers, Kiera Stankewich, Maya Mau, and Emma Mullett and club advisor Sabine Harris gather around a water bottle filling station across from the GHS main office, one of three recently installed thanks to a $3,600 Guilford Interact Youth Advisory Group grant. Photo courtesy of Lorri Hahn

Guilford High School (GHS) has three new water bottle filling stations thanks to a $3,600 Guilford Interact Youth Advisory Group grant awarded last spring to the GHS Environmental Club by the Guilford Foundation. The club is dedicated to making Guilford High School and the greater Guilford Community more environmentally friendly. The students will be selling water bottles displaying the message “Save the Earth” to encourage reuse versus plastic waste. The club also partnered with BYO Guilford this year, a group that encourages the use of reusable checkout bags, to collect T-shirts and turn them into tote bags.

The students would like to thank the Guilford Foundation and last year’s Environmental Club president, Charlotte Babbin, for making the new water bottle filling stations possible. The stations were installed by the Guilford Public Schools Facilities Department.