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PRIDE awards grants to area Conservation Districts, Schools 853.00 to Taylor County projects; $457.00 to Casey County projects; $1,000.00 to Cumberland County projects By Tammie Wilson Somerset, KY -- Eastern Kentucky PRIDE announced a number of awards this week, including a total of $853 to the Taylor County Conservation District and Taylor County Junior Conservation Board for hands-on environmental education projects during the 2015/16 school year. The Taylor County Conservation District applied for and received a $500 grant to host a recycling day at Miller Park in November. Community members who attended took home a free recycling bin and information about recycling. The district's goal was to raise awareness of the benefits of recycling and encourage more people to recycle. The event drew a good crowd, with students from both high schools helping. The Taylor County Junior Conservation Board will use its $353 grant to host Household Hazardous Waste and Recycle Day at the Taylor County Extension Office. At the one-day event, Taylor County residents will be able to drop off their technology waste, old paint and home-use pesticides at no cost. The Kentucky Department of Agriculture Environmental Services will dispose of the materials. Junior Conservation Board members will participate in planning, advertising, coordinating and implementing the event. Eastern Kentucky PRIDE also announced that $457 has been awarded to Casey County High School and Middle School for hands-on environmental education projects during the 2015/16 school year. The grant will pay for supplies that students will need to build a compost bin and a vermiculture bin (worm farm for composting). Their bins will be used to recycle waste from the schools' organic garden and poultry program. Students are responsible for feeding the chickens, cleaning the coop, monitoring the worm farm and managing the composting. $1,000 has been awarded to the Cumberland County Conservation District and Cumberland County Middle School for hands-on environmental education projects during the 2015/16 school year. The conservation district and school applied for and received two grants that total $1,000. The funds will pay for activities that help students and community members understand their role in conserving our natural resources and wildlife for future generations. The school will buy a variety of materials for Earth Day and other projects, such as a nature photo contest. The purchases will include a camera, binoculars, greenhouse supplies, work tables/benches, and a butterfly garden and monarch butterfly way station. The funding was awarded in February and last October through the PRIDE Environmental Education Grant Program. The program was made possible by a grant to PRIDE from Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky (TMMK). Overall, PRIDE awarded $32,253 to schools that applied for the grant program across 42 counties of southern and eastern Kentucky. The grants can be used for a variety of educational activities that help students appreciate and care for the environment and to serve their community. "I want to congratulate the grant recipients and thank the educators who are leading these projects," said PRIDE's Tammie Wilson. "Our region is blessed with incredible natural resources, so it is important that every generation learns how to be good stewards," Wilson said. "PRIDE has been working in the schools for almost 20 years now, and we hear so many stories of children who changed their families' habits on litter and recycling. Environmental education is making a difference in our region." "Beyond that, hands-on nature projects really help students learn a variety of subjects," she explained. "The environmental education activities give them a chance to apply what they are learning in math and science and other classes. That means they understand and remember their lessons better." Since 1997, PRIDE has awarded 1,533 grants that impacted 745,575 students across the region. Schools have used PRIDE funds for a wide variety of activities, such as starting recycling programs and building outdoor classrooms, nature trails, wetlands and greenhouses. Promoting environmental education is one the key missions of PRIDE, a nonprofit organization. The other two missions are cleaning up the region's waterways and removing solid waste problems. Founded in 1997 by Congressman Hal Rogers and the late General James E. Bickford, PRIDE works alongside citizens, teachers and elected officials to improve the region's environment and quality of life. For a complete list of grant recipients, please visit www.kypride.org. This story was posted on 2016-03-03 13:17:05
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