for breaking news visit www.timesnewsweekly.com june 4 2015 • times 19 Recycling milestone for Glendale school BY ANTHONY GIUDICE agiudice@ridgewoodtimes.com @A_GiudiceReport The students of Redeemer Lutheran School in Glendale have been recycling drink cartons to earn their school money and prizes. As part of TerraCycle and Capri Sun’s Drink Pouch Brigade, the students have been collecting their empty drink pouches in the lunchroom at school and at home. Since they began, the students have reached the first level of the milestone contest by collecting and recycling more than 10,000 drink pouches, earning Redeemer Lutheran School over $700. In addition to the money earned for each piece of waste collected, participants can win prizes made from recycled drink pouches, such as storage bins, a playground and other rewards for their schools. “The milestone program is meant to inspire individuals and organizations to collect more waste while receiving prizes for their achievements,” said Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle. “It is rewarding to see the students and administration get so involved in making this work. It’s an incredible achievement to have kept so many pouches out of the waste stream.” The students at Redeemer Lutheran School look to continue their recycling ways and reach higher milestones in the Drink Pouch Brigade contest. “Our students have done a tremendous job,” said Michael Williams, principal of Redeemer Lutheran School. “They are really helping with recycling and fundraising for the school.” Thousands of other schools and organizations across the U.S. participate in the Drink Pouch Brigade. The free program is open to any interested organization or individual, and all shipping costs are paid. Since 2007, Drink Pouch Brigade participants have kept almost 235 million drink pouches out of landfills and have raised more than $4.5 million for charity. Photo courtesy Redeemer Lutheran School Students at Redeemer Lutheran School collected and recycled over 10,000 Capri Sun drink pouches. Queens students know the meaning of sportsmanship Photo courtesy Aaron Finkel Jennifer Yu, one of the finalists from Queens in the “What Sportsmanship Mean to Me” essay writing competition. BY ANTHONY GIUDICE agiudice@ridgewoodtimes.com @A_GiudiceReport Three students from Queens were among the winners of New York Sports Connection’s first annual New York City student sportsmanship essay contest, “What Sportsmanship Means to Me.” The students were tasked with writing original 400- to 500-word essays on the topic of what sportsmanship means to them. The submissions were anonymously judged on originality, emotional appeal, use of the theme, grammar, spelling and writing skills. Entries were received from all five boroughs, and the finalists were selected from 10 different NYC public and private schools. “We were overwhelmed by the response and impressed by the wonderful quality of the many essays we received,” said Aaron Finkel, New York Sports Connection founder. Sifan Lu, 17, a Forest Hills resident and student at Stuyvesant High School, won the 11th- and 12th-grade category. Xavier High School student, Connor Mulvena, 16, a resident of Glendale, was named a finalist in that category. Forest Hills resident Jennifer Yu, 15, was a finalist among the ninth- and 10thgraders. She is a ninth-grader at Stuyvesant Tech in Manhattan. As a category winner, Lu will receive a $500 prize. Mulvena and Yu will each receive $100 for being finalists in their categories. The essays were judged by a celebrity panel of judges, including WFAN radio sports talk personality Craig Carton; former New York Mets relief pitcher and team captain John Franco; Mike Puma, a sportswriter with the New York Post; and Luis Fernando Llosa, former Sports Illustrated associate editor. “It was an honor to help judge New York Sports Connection’s First Annual Youth Essay Contest,” Franco said. “The essays submitted by the finalists showed a level of maturity way beyond their years, and were a testament to the amazing work done by parents, coaches and volunteers to ensure that our kids’ youth sports experience teaches real life lessons.”
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