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"Stop turning Southern Illinois into a river-to-river landfill." Les Winkeler of the Southern Illinoisan wrote this article about litter in Southern Illinois. Link to story is here Free household chemical collection
http://www.epa.state.il.us/green-youth/ Open to K-12 students who have participated in an environmental or conservation project are eligible to apply for the awards. Example of such projects include waste reduction; prevention or reduction of air, water or land pollution, restoration of natural areas, energy or water efficiency or conservation, etc.
Beautify Southern Illinois encourages area teachers & parents to encourage their children/students to consider applying. The application is fairly brief. Deadline is March 17, 2008. For additional information on the Illinois Governor's Green Youth Award, please see the Program Information Page: http://www.epa.state.il.us/green-youth/program-information.html or contact Illinois EPA (217) 557-7826. Lt. Governor Pat Quinn presented the 2007 Environmental Hero Awards on December 27, 2007. Congratulations to all of the winners (see full story: http://www.standingupforillinois.org/story_main.php?id=216 ) especially the southern Illinoisans for receiving this prestigious award. Illinois Governor's Environmental Corps Internship Program pays $1,400 Deadline to apply March 28, 2008 Internship opportunity available! Go to http://www.epa.state.il.us/gec/ for more details. Last year two SIUC students and two SIUE students participated in the Governor’s Environmental Corps Internship program! Give the program some thought! "It takes a village to pick up our litter." "Voice of the Southern" editorial from September 25, 2007 in the Southern Illinoisan. Campaign aims to clean up region, honor volunteers The Southern published an article about the Beautify Southern Illinois Campaign, in conjunction with the Southern Illinois Community Foundation, to help students with financial assistance to organize cleanup and recycling efforts.
Carbondale Named One of the 101 Best Outdoor Towns The Southern published an article on Carbondale being named one of the 101 best outdoor towns. For more information, read the article here: http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2007/07/14/outdoors/20776100.txt
The Southern recently published an article on BSI by Les Winkeler to read about it follow the link below: http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2007/06/19/outdoors/20561628.txt Lake Kinkaid Clean-up On April 14th, 2007 the Shawnee Muskie Hunters Club cleaned up around Lake Kinkaid. To find out more information, read the news article below (Acrobat Reader required): http://files.siude.com/april16complete.pdf Randolph County Ranked Third Best Rural Place to Live Congratulations to Randolph County! Randolph County has been ranked the third best rural place to live in the entire United States! “A Rural Gem” BY JOHN D. HOMAN in the Southern Illinoisan: http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles/2007/02/13/top/19222815.txt A quote from the article by Chester Mayor Marty Bert: Bert said he believes hard work does indeed pay dividends. "We're working hard to clean up the town as part of the Beautify Southern Illinois campaign," the mayor said. "It's little things like that which can lead to bringing more tourism to the town and county." Great job Chester!
Randolph County High Schools Construct Welcome Signs Students from local high schools took part in the Beauty Southern Illinois initiative by designing and constructing 10 Welcome to Randolph County signs. To read further check out the two articles from the Sparta News Plaindealer on June 14, 2006 below.
Beautify Southern Illinois Landscaping Project 2006 Beautify Southern Illinois coordinated and held a landscaping project for Murphysboro on April 21, 2006. Various companies and community organizations were involved with the project. Students from the Murphysboro Middle School also volunteered. For more information check out the presentation here. Beautify Southern Illinois in the Southern Illinoisan Beautify Southern Illinois was acknowledged as part of a statewide cleanup effort to better the area. For more information see the article here. Paul Restivo Recognized in the Southern Business Journal Beautify Southern Illinois Chair, Paul Restivo, was recently recognized in the Southern Business Journal for his outstanding volunteerism. Click here to view the article. For the PDF version click here. Beautify
Southern Illinois in the Marion Daily Republican Beautify Southern Illinois
on the Radio Joey Helleny was the wonderful voice of these and Ryan Patrick from Z100 radio generously helped record them. Download each in MP3 format: BSI PSA 1 (15 seconds) Restivo new chair of Beautify
Southern Illinois "I am not, however, walking away from this outstanding campaign," Poshard said. "I will continue to serve the campaign as an honorary spokesperson from time to time and as a volunteer." He announced that Paul Restivo, director of SIU Carbondale's Center for Environmental Health and Safety, has agreed to serve as chairman of the campaign. "Paul has been an active member of the campaign from its inception and I am certain that Paul can help the campaign continue to grow into the future," Poshard said. "In fact, I have asked Paul to make every effort to expand the campaign into additional areas, especially in communities with a significant Southern Illinois University presence. Southern Illinois University will continue to take a leadership role in this important initiative." To reach Restivo, call 618/453-7180 or 618/453-7170, or e-mail him at restivo@cehs.siu.edu. A year ago, Poshard joined with other Southern Illinois leaders to initiate the region-wide "Beautify Southern Illinois Campaign." Hundreds of residents volunteer their time for clean-ups, flower and tree planting, removing dilapidated structures and other environmentally pro-active efforts. In addition, SIUC works with the region's community colleges to conduct a series of environmental education and resource workshops for kindergarten-12th grade teachers. For more information on these workshops, contact Jennae DuBois at SIUC's Center for Environmental Health and Safety at 618/453-7170 or by e-mail at duubois@cehs.siu.edu. "It is gratifying to see all the tremendously positive work that has been done this year and I wish to express my sincere appreciation to all the volunteers, community leaders and elected officials for all their hard work," Poshard said. "I also wish to express my appreciation to the media in our region for the positive newspaper stories, radio announcements and television coverage of our campaign activities. The media plays an important role in helping to educate our region about the impact litter and neglect have on the life blood of our region's economic future. Media coverage of the positive altruistic volunteerism of our campaign also helps to make it clear that we can all make a difference." Serving others is among the goals of Southern at 150: Building Excellence Through Commitment, the blueprint the University is following as it approaches its 150th anniversary in 2019. -Posted from http://news.siu.edu/news/January06/012606tw6011.jsp Press Releases Restivo New Chair of Beautify Southern Illinois Clearing the Clutter: Volunteers Turn out for Poshard's First Cleanup Day Locally-produced Shows to Celebrate Earth Day To the University Community: A Message from the Chancellor Groups Bond Together to Pick Up Litter City Trash Problem Concerns Many
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