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4 - The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, June 17, 2009
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
City to Join Statewide Recycling
Campaign
The City of Savannah
joined a statewide campaign
that uses humor and the
absurd to promote the bene
fits of recycling.
City officials kicked
off the campaign at a news
conference on Wednesday,
June 10, at the transfer cen
ter operated by Savannah's
recycling partner, Pratt
Industries, located at 101
Kahn Industrial Court,
Since the historic
launch of the City's sin
glestream curbside recy
cling program in January,
Savannah has collected over
5 million pounds of recy-
clables from Savannah's
households.
The program has
reduced the amount of mate
rial sent to our landfill by
14.2 percent, diverting
4,201 metric tons of carbon
emissions from the air,
according to a formula
developed by the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency.
The new recycling
awareness campaign centers
around a series of unwitting
characters who proudly pro
claim the reasons they
refuse to recycle.
The characters even
wear T-shirts that read, "I
Don't Recycle." Non-recy
cler Tommy Krenshaw, for
instance, proudly proclaims
to all who will listen that we
will find a new planet when
this one fills up with the
materials he and others like
him refuse to recycle.
By highlighting the
absurdities behind not recy
cling, the campaign
responds on behalf of the
rest of us with “you gotta be
kidding!” (the campaign
Web site, too, is
www.YouGottabeKidding.o
rg.)
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The campaign was cre
ated by the Georgia
Department of Community
Affairs (DCA).
It launched in full force
in Savannah on with a series
of print ads, billboard mes
sages and radio spots.
“Every time someone
bypasses a recycling bin or
chooses to throw a can away,
they are effectively saying, T
don’t recycle!’" said Randy
Hartmann, the Director of the
Office of Environmental
Management of DCA.
"They’re wearing their apa
thy on their sleeve. What
we’re saying is that these
excuses won’t work any
more.”
“Most residents of
Savannah are proud to recy
cle,” said City of Savannah
Sanitation Bureau Chief
Stephanie Cutter. “However,
some think it doesn’t make a
difference. Well, we know it
does make a difference and if
everyone does their fair share
here in Savannah the entire
state of Georgia will benefit.”
Through the media rela
tions and marketing cam
paign, DCA will drive
Georgia residents to the cam
paign Web site where the real
facts about recycling will be
presented in a way that res
onates and drives real action.
The campaign will tar
get all non-recyclers, but with
a special focus on the 25- to
34-year-old group, as
research revealed they are the
least likely to recycle, but
also tend to be the easiest to
motivate.
Deadline for
All Copy is
Friday, By
4pm
Savannah Becomes a We CanICity
The City of Savannah
has launched We Can!
(Ways to Enhance Children’s
Activity & Nutrition!), a
fast-growing national move
ment of families and com
munities coming together to
promote healthy weight in
children ages 8-13 through
improved food choices,
increased physical activity
and reduced screen time. We
Can! is supported by the
National Institutes of Health
(NIH).
Childhood obesity is a
serious public health prob
lem. In the US, nearly one-
third of our youth are over
weight or at risk of becom
ing overweight. These extra
pounds can add up to life
long health problems.
Overweight and obese
adults increase their risk of
heart disease, type 2 dia
betes, high blood pressure,
certain cancers and other
chronic conditions.
The City of Savannah
has been designated as a We
Can! City, reflecting its com
mitment to supporting
healthy lifestyles among its
residents. Savannah will join
only 14 other cities/counties
in the US that have earned
this designation.
The Chatham County
Health Department and
Healthy Savannah presented
the We Can! road sign to
Mayor Otis Johnson at City
Hall; in turn, Mayor Johnson
issued a proclamation
declaring Saturday, June
13th, We Can! Day.
Community partners
who have been instrumental
in earning the We Can! City
designation include: City of
Savannah, Chatham County
Health Department, Healthy
Savannah, Local Savannah
Food Collaborative,
Performance Initiatives,
Greenbriar Children’s
Center, Boys & Girls Club of
Greater Savannah, West
Broad Street YMCA, Victory
Heights Neighborhood Park,
Youth Futures Authority, St.
Pius Family Resource
Center, Savannah Sand
Gnats and 92.3 the Point.
For more information,
please call 912.484.1885 or
email:cpgibson@dhr.state.ga
.us
NOAA’s Gray’s Reef to Host Youth
Educational Summit
NOAA’s Gray’s Reef
National Marine Sanctuary,
headquartered in Savannah,
Ga., will host 40 students
from across the nation this
month during the National
Association of Black Scuba
Divers’ (NABS) Youth
Educational Summit.
The program’s goal is
to develop young leaders
through marine science.
“Our goal is to provide
these young people an inter
esting and thought-provok
ing week of activities that
will enhance their marine
knowledge while reaching
underserved and underrepre
sented communities,” said
Cathy Sakas, the sanctuary’s
education coordinator.
The 2009 program will
take place June 21-27. The
students, ages 9-18, will be
housed at Savannah State
University.
The schedule of activi
ties includes: Meetings with
NOAA scientists marsh
walk with marine science
students at Savannah State
University tour of the
Georgia Sea Turtle Center on
Jekyll Island, community
service work with the
University of Georgia
Shellfish Research
Laboratory, education pro
gram, an offshore dive an
introduction to building
remotely operated vehicles,
and a pontoon boat cruise
through the Bull River estu
ary
“The focus of the sum
mit is to raise awareness and
educate youth about the need
for environmental responsi
bility, specifically the protec
tion of our waterways and
marine life,” said Kenneth
Stewart, NABS committee
chairman.
NOAA understands and
predicts changes in the
Earth's environment, from
the depths of the ocean to the
surface of the sun, and con
serves and manages our
coastal and marine
resources.
Visit:
http://www.noaa.gov.
CRCT Scores Increase
Test scores for
Georgia’s elementary and
INVITATION TO BID
Sealed btds/pfOposaJs will he received by the FSrwd of
Education for the City of Savannah mid County of
Chatham at the Purchasing Department.
3GM Ha]| Sheet, Room 2 13,
Savannah, Georgia 31401.
0SU 30 Instructional Science Catalog Discount
< An nun I Contract)
Closing Date: 06/23/09 II AM
09-131 Repair & Rcfmish Gym Moor at Johnson
High School. Pre-Bid eonfereuee location a!
Johnson High School. .Mil2 Sunsei Blvd..
Savannah GA 31404. to be held on Thursday,
06/18/® ® 11:30 An
Closing Date: 06/30/09 A- 2 PM
09-132 Rcfinish Gy nr Floors at Beach High, Groves
High, Savannah Arts Academy, Windsor
Forest Nigh Schools
All bidders, are strongly urged to attend the
pre-bid conferences to he held Thursday,
June 18.2009.
Pre-bid local ions are follows: Windsor forest
High 9 AM located al 12419 Largo Dr..
Savannah. GA 31419
Savannah Arts Academy ® 10:30 AM lo
cated al 5W Washington Avc., Sav-mmih, Ga
31405
Beach High School @ 3PM at 3001 Hopkins
St.. Savannah, Ga 31405 Groves High School
(fl 3 PM located at J [JO Wheal hill Eld.,
Savannah. GA31408
Closing Date: OfV30/09 <8 3 PV1
C09-47 Fence Tnsiallation th! West Chatham Middle
School Pre-Bid. conference will he held at
West Chatham Middle School. 800 Pine
Barren Rd.. Pooler, GA 31322. Tuesday,
(16/23/1)9 @10 AM
Closing Date: 07/09/09 ® 2 PM
At the time and place noted above, bids will he puh
Itrfy opened. No extension of the bidding period will
he made unks 1 . indicated hy written addendum. The
Board reserves the right tn reject any anil all bids and
to waive any irregularities or technicalities in propos
als retched whenever such rejection nr waiver is hi
the best interest of the Board. The Board lias [he right
to disqualify a hid of anj bidder deemed non-respon-
s i ve to i he (3 onrd B iddi np discume nl s may Ixr ob-
lainod front the Purchasing Department, 208 Bull
Slrect. Room 213, Savannah, Georgia 314411 or they
may be down loaded from the District's web site,
w ww. savannah.Chatham, k 12.gams.
The Board of Education is an
Equal Opportunity Employer.
in All Areas
middle school students
improved in all areas this
year, but most dramatically
in the crucial subjects of
mathematics and science.
Students posted gains
on all 14 of the Criterion-
Referenced Competency
Tests (CRCT) in mathemat
ics and science, all of which
are aligned to Georgia’s
more rigorous curriculum.
“The 2009 CRCT
results are very encouraging
and show that our students
are learning more advanced
concepts and are able to
apply that knowledge prop
erly,” said State
Superintendent of Schools
Kathy Cox.
The biggest one-year
gain on any of the CRCTs
was in eighth-grade math:
The pass rate was 70 percent,
an increase of eight percent
age points.
The CRCTs are curricu
lum-based tests given to stu
dents in grades 1-8 in the
subjects of reading, English
language arts, mathematics
and - in grades 3-8 - science
and social studies.
As Georgia has rolled
out its new curriculum, the
Georgia Performance
Standards, more rigorous
tests have been created and
administered.
This year, for the first
time, all the CRCTs are
aligned to the new curricu
lum.
The statewide results
are reported in three cate
gories - the percentage of
students that did not meet
standards, met standards or
exceeded standards.
Other highlights from the
2009 CRCT report include:
- A five (5) percentage
point jump in the pass rate
for science in grades 3 and 5.
In third grade, 80 percent of
the students met or exceeded
standards on the Science
CRCT and in fifth grade 76
percent.
- Reading and English lan
guage arts performance
remained high and improved
in almost every grade, with
89 percent of seventh-
graders meeting standards on
both tests. In sixth-grade, the
pass rate was 90 percent in
reading and 91 percent in
English.
- This is the first year stu
dents in grades 3-5 took the
social studies CRCT aligned
to the new curriculum. The
pass rate was over 70 percent
for each grade.
Zion Fair to host
annual Revival
Zion Fair Missionary
Baptist Church, 4123 First
Street, Garden City, invites
you to be a part of our
Annual Church Revival dur
ing the week of June 17-19.
Our evangelist for the
week will be Rev. James H.
Terry, pastor of St. Paul
Missionary Baptist Church.
Services will begin each
night at 7:30p.m.
We are looking for a
spirit-filled time in the Lord.
Rev. Ronald E. Small, Sr.,
Pastor.