As has been the case in recent years, Rockdale’s annual Earth Day observance will be more like Earth Month.
While Monday, April 22, is the big day, with service projects in many areas of town, there will be a month’s worth of activities, including the annual spring Stash Your Trash Event by the City of Rockdale.
There has already been one Earth Day event. The traditional post contest by Lani Young’s art students at Rockdale Junior-High School drew 11 contestants and, for the first time produced two winners.
Art by Miranda Muegge and Emmaline Hollinger (left to right, above), shared the top award and are being used to promote Earth Day 2019.
Monday (April 1) is the deadline to enter the annual Earth Day coloring contest for pre-school through fifth grade.
SCHEDULE—Here’s a list of Earth Day events for April:
All month—Earth Day display at Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.
April 13—City of Rock-dale Stash Your Trash, begins at 8 a.m. to 12-noon. For Rockdale residents only. Residence will be verified before entrance. Bring driver’s license and water bill to verify residence within the city limits.
April 20—Texas Master Naturalists El Camino Real Chapter, educational presentations, free take-home items. Rockdale Community Room (109 North Main); Girl Scout Troops 9603 and 9605 cleanup of Old City Cemetery.
April 22—Welcome and send-off for volunteers, breakfast tacos, RHS gym, tacos at 8:30 a.m., send-off at 9; projects at various locations; Master Naturalists make presentations at elementary and intermediate campuses; coloring contest winners announced.
April 22-27—Aluminum can recycling at reduced rate, Rockdale Iron and Metal, 1263 West US 79.
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