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Earth-Arbor Day Eco Fair at Huckleberry
Recycle your electronics, build a bird house and learn about the environment at Huck's Eco Fair.
Residents can participate in a variety of Earth Day-Arbor Day activities, such as nature hikes, and recycle their used residential electronic devices, including computers and laptops, this weekend at , sponsored by Huckleberry Hill Elementary School (HHES) and the Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority (HRRA).
Dorina Leslie, the chairman of the Cultural Committee for the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) at HHES, said the events would be held Saturday at the school, located at 100 Candlewood Lake Road, from noon to 4 p.m.
She said in an interview that the Earth Day-Arbor Day activities, which are being sponsored by HHES, would include nature hikes and instruction on building a bird house.
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Leslie said this is “the third or fourth year” that HHES has sponsored the Earth Day-Arbor Day activities.
Wildlife in Crisis and Atka, both from the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, N.Y. will attend, as will the Brookfield Conservation Commission and Shaklee vendors.
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Leslie and Lisa Morelli, the secretary to Superintendent of Schools Anthony Bivona and the Board of Education (BOE), are volunteers on the town’s recycling committee.
They arranged, along with coordinators Elisa Larson of Center Elementary School (CES), Meredith McGlynn of HHES and Dave Willinski of Whisconier Middle School (WMS), to have WeRecycle accept used electronic devices that will be placed in two 50-foot boxes that will be in front of HHES.
Leslie said WeRecycle would be collecting computers, laptops, monitors, printers, copiers, cameras, microwaves, keyboards, iPods, peripherals, televisions, cellular phones, stereo equipment, DVD players, fax machines and digital cameras.
“It’s a safe, free program,” she said. “Normally in the past you had to pay for this.”
“Traditionally, you would have to take your things up to New Milford,” Leslie said, referring to the recycling center located in that town.
She said the hard drives on the electronic devices “will be destroyed and your information will not be disseminated.”
Leslie said some of the other 10 municipalities in the HRRA — Kent, New Milford, Bridgewater, Sherman, New Fairfield, Newtown, Bethel, Redding, Danbury and Ridgefield — have held similar events.
Leslie said that First Selectman Bill Davidson, who serves on the HRRA, “is a big proponent” of the electronics recycling program.
She said that she hopes the electronics recycling becomes an annual event.
