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Delmar Farmers Market - Opening Day!

A sunny day here at the Bethlehem Middle School in Delmar as the Delmar (Farmers) Market opened for the season. Crowds started pouring in for the 9am start continuing to flow until closing time at 1pm. 

Happy shoppers purchased goods ranging from local farm-grown flowers, fruits and veggies, handmade birdhouses, handmade jewelry and pocketbooks to homegrown honey, fresh eggs, meat and more. Some vendors were so successful they sold out early. 

Music by the Solidarity Singers and a guitarist helped fill the air with wonderful sounds for all to enjoy. 

If you didn't make it today, no worries; the Delmar Market runs Saturday's 9-1pm through the fall. For more info visit www.delmarmarket.org.

View Delmar Market Photo Album

Help BCMS Win a $5000 Grant for Organic Gardens - Online Voting Ends 6/2/09

WE WON, WE WON! THANKS FOR VOTING!!!!

Mark Warford, the assistant principal at the Middle School has applied for a $5000 grant to help build organic vegetable gardens.  We need to win the popular vote against 3 other schools in the region - help us get this $$!!!

Please go to www.rnntv.com then scroll to the bottom of the page to see the poll. Cast your vote for Bethlehem Middle School Organic Kitchen Garden.

You can vote more than once and we hope you will! Voting ends June 2, 2009. Help spread the words and forward the link onto your friends and family too!

A Big Thank You to Rail Trail Trash Collectors

Close to 40 people, kids and adults alike, answered our call to help clean up the rail trail on Wed. April 22, 2009!

As with last years clean up, this year did not disappoint the children in their treasure hunt-like adventure.Together, we picked up close to 13 large orange bags of trash!

Here are just a few of the things our group picked up along the old tracks:

• bike tires and one call tire
• 3 chairs
• a Little Tykes basketball hoop
• a fake plant
• buckets
• a shoe
• bottles & cans
• wrappers and all other types of trash

Happy Earth Day! Help Us Clean Up the Rail Trail Today - 4PM

The sun is out, it's warm, the birds are chirping - what more could you ask for on Earth Day!

Well, there is one thing. The Rail Trail (old railroad tracks in Delmar) needs some serious cleaning up.
Please join us today and bring along the neighborhood kids!

Rail Trail Clean Up
Wed 4/22 @

4PM

Meet behind American Legion - back right of parking lot

We’ll provide the bags and adult plastic gloves.

Bring:

• Boots
• Water bottle
• Long sleeves
• Work gloves

Thank you so much!

Earth Week 2009 Activities at Elsmere Elementary School

Kate Kloss - Principal, Dan Rain, Harriet Jaffe, Mike Klugman and I (Leslie Trosset), have put together some fun green activities at Elsmere School in honor of Earth Day, Wed. April 22nd. 

We've planned a variety of week-long activities and guest speakers, including:

• New Capri Sun, Kool-Aid, Honest Tea Drink Pouch recycling program that earns Elsmere's PTA 2 cents per pouch collected. Checkout www.terracycle.net.
• Lunch trash daily weigh-in. We'll weigh the lunch trash everyday and see if through recycling, not wasting food, and using re-usable containers will help reduce waste.
• Planting a strawberry bed with Dan Rain.
• Green "Spirit" Day - wear green, eco-friendly shirts, organic shirts, earth shirts, etc.
• A visit from Enviroman - our very own Middle School Asst. Principal Mark Warford will speak about the environment.
• A visit from a wildlife rehabilitator.
• A visit from Cornell's 4H who will bring their energy bike - pedal to see how much energy it takes to light a regular lightbulb vs. a Compact Florescent (CFL).
• A visit from Sharon Fisher - our town's recycling coordinator, who will discuss recycling.