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Molly McCarthy from Rappahannock County Elementary School, along with students from Bridgewater, Staunton and Fort Defiance, won WVPT Public Television’s fourth annual Young Environmentalist Award Contest.
The winners were honored at an awards reception held at WVPT Wednesday, Feb. 23. Ed Clark, (formerly of Rappahannock) president of The Wildlife Center of Virginia, was keynote speaker.
Each year, Shenandoah Spring Water in Staunton partners with WVPT rewards students in the WVPT viewing area who research water-related issues and offer solutions to help restore the environment. One winning entry was selected from four levels: grade 12, grade 9 to 11, grade 6 to 8 and grade K-5. The focus was “Healthy Schoolyards, Healthy Watersheds.”
The winner in the grade K-5 was Molly McCarthy, a fourth grader at RCES. In her “Schoolyard Makeover” essay, Molly discussed some of the habitat problems around her school and how they affect water quality, insect life, and plant life.
She offered solutions to improve her schoolyard’s health by adding plants that would attract insects to help pollinate trees in local orchards. She also suggested planting a “healing garden” of herbs that students could study, and flowers that would attract bees and butterflies.
Molly and Rappahannock County Elementary School received a $500 gift certificate from Fine Earth of Harrisonburg to purchase plants to improve their schoolyard habitat.
Molly lives with her parents, three sisters, three cats i
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