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VOLUME 32 — NUMBER 19
Students Of Month Announced
Students of the Month for
both January and February
were announced last week,
with four students, one from
each class, being named to
receive the honor. %‘he students
were chosen for having the
highest grade point average of
their class. 2
Tian Hall is January’'s stu
dent of the month of the
freshman class. The daughter
of Leon and Brenda Hall, Tian
is a member of the band and of
Students Against Driving
Drunk (SADD), and she has
received the National Math
Award.
Gabe Tallent is the
sophomore student of the
month for January. He is the
son of Jerry and Sandra
Tallent and has been the presi
dent of both his freshman and
Recycling A Concern Of All Chattoogans, Even High School Students
By KATRINA BOLTON
As the earth’s diminishing
natural resources vanish,
mankind’'s accumulation of
wasted by-products of daily liv
ing increase. In order to
Ereserve resources and cut
ack on the amount of garbage
with which we pollute the earth
each year, people the world
over are turning to recycling as
an answer to at least a part of
the problem.
]gecycling has, within the
last few months, come to be an
issue with which many Chat
tooga Countians are familiar.
The controversial search for a
new landfill has, in part, made
citizens of this county more
familiar with the problem fac
infi us than are people of many
other areas.
While there is no final solu
tion to the problems of dispos
ing o(f)dgarbage, recycling is a
method of meeting at least a
few of our goals as a society,
and more and more families are
turning to recycling each week
in our county. A part of the re
cent success in the recycling
pr%g'ram in Chattooga County
'ls due to the efforts of Chat
tooga High School science
How To Begin Your Own Recycling:
Although the recycling pro
gram is growing, there are still
many people in our county who
are unaware of exactly what
can be recycled. Newspapers;
mixed pagers such as composi
tion notebooks, junk mail, and
magazines; aluminum cans;
single-ply household card
board; tin cans and lids; brown
paper bags; aluminum foil and
pie plates; and clear, brown,
and green glass jars and bot
tles can all be recycled.
Organic material can be
recycled through a composter.
Food scraps, leaves, and grass
cli%pings can be turned into
rich, fertile dirt in just a few
months’ time.
Recyclable material can be
taken to the Summerville
Recycling Center on Farrar
Drive behind the Chattooga
County Hospital from 8 a.m.
until 4 p.m. on Saturday or
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Alisha Bankston pitches in to do her &art in Chattooga
High School’s recycling program. (Photo By Jason
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sophomore classes. He is also
the Student Council treasurer
and a member of the Beta Club,
Y Club, Scholar Bowl Team,
and Indian Lore and Sequoyah
staffs. Gabe was the HOBIE
Leadership representative
from CH§ and was also
November's student of the
month. He will represent Chat
tooga in boys’ extemporaneous
speakinfi and essay at the
district literary meet at the end
of this month.
January’s junior represen
tative is Davici Tudor, the son
of Charles and Martha Tudor.
David is the Beta Club
treasurer, FCA president, and
he plays footbafi)l and tennis.
David will compete in piano
and oral interpretation at the
literary meet.
Jeremy Worsham, the son
teacher, Frank °‘‘Skipper”
Stewart, who until recently
was the president of the
Friends of Recycling in our
county. ;
The recycling group was
formed last March by Jonni
Shaw of the Little Egypt com
munity, but the Program was
slow in I&etting off the ground.
When Mr. Stewart joined the
movement in the summer
months as a volunteer, there
was talk of shutting down the
program. Stewart suggested
moving the collection center to
a central area and advertising
the program. As a result, the
recycling effort grew until it
reached the point last October
of takin§ in 1,800 pounds of
recyclable material a week,
making the project financially
self-su%ficient. Recycling has
continued to grow in Chat
tooga County since that time.
%urrently. the recycling
program is taking in 4,700
pounds a week from the over
500 families involved. About
five new Chattooga Count
families per week-join the eK
fort. Future plans are for five
centers for recycling spread
throughout the county. At pre
from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on
Wednesday.
Materials to be recycled
should be washed clean and
separated into categories of
glass, aluminum, paper and tin
plated steel. Bottles and jars
should be rinsed and the foam
casings from soft drink bottles
should be removed. Metal caps
and rings should be removed
and saved with the steel pro
ducts. Labels should be remov
ed. TV dinner trays, cake tins,
drink cans and other aluminum
products should be rinsed
thoroughly and flattened.
Newspapers should be bundled
with strings or placed in paper
bags. Magazines and slick
advertisements should be
removed. Tin-plated steel cans
should be rinsed and the paper
labels removed. The ends
should be cut out and saved,
then the can flattened.
of Bill and Kay Worsham, and
Jennifer Parker, the daughter
of William Parker, were tied for
January's senior students of
the month. Jeremy is serving
as band captain and percussion
lieutenant, is a member of the
Beta Club and is an Eagle
Scout. He also attended
Georgia’'s Boy's State. He
plans to go to Mercer Univer
sity and major in biomedical
engineering. Jennifer is Chat
tooga’'s STAR Student, drum
major of the band, and a
member of the Beta and Math
Clubs.
Terry Majors was selected
as the freshman student of the
month for February. Terry is
the son of Lee and Maxine Ma
jors and served as the manager
of the football and basketball
teams. : |
sent, the one center, located
beside the Wal-Mart store, is
cs>pen on Wednesdays and
aturdays. | ;
“It’s a family program, and
it creates jobs for the county,”
said Mr. Stewart of the expan
sion of the program. Though
Stewart resigned as president
of the program, he still speaks
to business, civic, and school
groups about the importance of
recycling. Another project
designed to help get more peo
ple involved in recycling,
especially in future genera
tions, is the emphasis placed on
recycling in Chattooga County
schools.
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Many classrooms have boxes specifically for the place
ment of recyclable paper. Here, Chris Hall, Gina Cook,
Kevin Gilliland and Mark Ballard contribute to the box
in Mr. Perry’s room. (Photo By Jason Espy).
B NEWSPAPERS %{’
Recycle newsprint and slick inserts.
B MIXED PAPER
Recycle notebook and office paper,
paperbacks, magazines, junk mail
with address window removed.
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HOUSEHOLD CARDBOARD
B TIN CANS AND LIDS
Remove labels from cans and rinse.
B BROWN PAPER BAGS
B ALUMINUM FOIL
AND PIE PLATES
Food stained materials are not
accepted. Pt
B GLASS )
Recvcle clear, green and brown glass.
Rinse and separate by color.
CHATTOOGA HIGH SCHOOL
Monica Adams, daughter of
Therman and Jeanette Adams,
was chosen as Februaxg’s
sophomore representative. She
is in the band and is a track
and basketball team member.
Elena Prather is February's
junior student of the month.
Elena, daughter of Robert and
Wanda Prather, is a member of
4-H, SADD, and the Beta Club,
and she plays on the tennis
team. She is also the woodwind
lieutenant of the band.
Kendra London, daughter
of Mouston and Janie London,
was chosen as the senior stu
dent of the month. Kendra
plays basketball and is a track
team member, and she is a
member of the Fellowship of
Christian Athletes.
under the direction of Mr.
In Chattooga High School,
several teachers have joined
the effort by placing boxes in
their classrooms to collect
scrap pager which would or
dinarily be thrown away and
carted off to the landfil{ One
project which has been working
successfully for almost a year
now, is the recycling of
aluminum drink cans. When
the Chattooga County board of
education permitted the sale of
soft drinks at the high school
last year, can depositories were
placed in halls so that the
school's RVI class members,
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February Students of the Month include freshman
Terry Majors (front); Monica Adams, sophomore (left);
and Kendra London, senior. Not pictured is junior Elena
Prather. (Photo By Jason Espy).
Miller, could collect the cans to
sell. The profits from the sale
of aluminum help to pay for the
students to attend RVI camp
each spring.
As the latest of several pro
jects, a compost area was built
a few weeks ago by Mr.
Stewart’s students in the
school courtyard so that
organic materials such as cof
fee grounds, food scraps, leaves
and yard trimmings can be
recycled into compost.
Asrecycling becomes a dai
ly factor in the lives of high
school and elementary
students in Chattooga County,
hopes are high that it will
become habit-forming and
carry over into the lives of
these students at home. An
average household in Chat
tooga County produces 94.7
pounds of garbage per week,
totaling 32 million pounds a
year overall. Recycling could
help lessen our demands upon
a new landfill and help to
preserve earth's dwingling
resources. ‘ :
* Recycling is a wise choice
for Chattooga County for six
reasons:
1. Recycling reduces the tax
burden of trash disposal.
2. Recycling reduces our
reliance on landfills.
3. Recycling creates a new
material resource.
4. Recycling conserves our
natural resources.
5. Recycling protects our
health ang environment.
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Imagine all the energy and
natural resources that can be
saved throgh recycling. The
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County, Mr. ““‘Skipper’’ Stewart, got the students of
Chattooga High School, like Ricky Whited, involved in
recycling. (Photo By Jason Espy).
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January's Students of the Month are (left to right)
Jeremy Worsham, senior; Tian Hall, freshman; David
Tudor, junior; Jennifer Parker, senior; and Gabe Tallent,
sophomore. January's honorees were selected based
upon grade point averages. (Photo By Jason Espy).
aluminum can would operate a
television for three hours.
Recycling used glass into new
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of daily newspapers are
equivalent to a fully-grown
tree.
The Georgia legislature has
gassed a law demanding that
y 1996, every county in the
state reduce its solid waste
disposal by 25 percent. The
citizens of Chattooga County
are ahead of the rest by having
gotten an early start at recycl
ing, but more people must join
the effort in order to reach this
goal. Everyone needs to get in
to the habit of recycling.
Some of the ways in
dividuals can help, in addition
to recycling on tfieir own, are
to encourage friends, co
workers, fellow church and club
members, and relatives to
recgfl;e.
chasing recyclable and
recycled products can also
help. Many businesses are
advertising their commitment
to recycling by featuring items
that either have been produc
ed from recycled materials or
which can ¥ater be recycled
themselves. For example,
Riverside Paper Company is
producing a paper which is 90
to 100 percent recycled. All in
dustries need to turn to recycl
ix;g as a means of helfin'ng to
reduce air and water pollution.
A Chinese proverb once
printed on recycled paper made
the recycling message clearer.
It said, *‘lf everyone swept his
own doorstep, the whole world
would be clean.” It is clear that
recycling must begin at home.
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