Join me to celebrate the Combat Climate Crisis project I initiated, now accepted by two boards of education in Eastern Ontario, Trillium Lakelands District in Lindsay, Kawartha Lakes & Haliburton and the Peterborough, Victoria, Northumberland & Clarington Catholic District Boards of Education.

I applied for, & was awarded funding from the Service To Others Provincial Committee of Retired Teachers Ontario.

Combat Climate Crisis is a poster contest for secondary school students.

The winning student will participate in a tree-planting ceremony which will take place in the spring, hopefully before a full assembly of students held outside or, depending on current Covid restrictions, a virtual one.

The trees are nursery-grown maples, to be displayed in a predominant location. Local media will be involved in order to raise awareness of the urgent imatecisis and global warming in the community.

The winning student will have his/her name engraved on a plaque on a nearby dedication stone, generating positive public relations for students, teachers, administrators and RTOERO aIike.

Also the winner will receive an individual art kit and each participating high school will receive a $100.00 grant for the reimbursement of art materials.

This is such an important topic, and such a simple idea to help preserve our common home of Mother Earth in Creation.

Roberta Fuller