Recyled Shoes
Thank you to everyone who contributed shoes to be recycled. We kept five huge garbage bags of shoes out of the landfills by recycling. Three of those bags were donated to Nike where the soles will be made into rubber matting and other items. Two bags were donated to resale shops which help those in need. At Prairieview School - Character Counts!
Book Review by Jackie Warkentien
This might be a book to put on your Summer Reading Plan form for good reading this summer.
Scat by Carl Hiaasen - Jackie gave this book 4 out of 5 stars
Friends Nick Waters and Marta Gonzalez attend prestigious Truman School. Among their classmates is Smoke Scrod, Jr. who has been accused of arson twice. Yet he is continually bailed out by his wealthy grandmother. Truman School's biology teacher, Mrs. Bunny Starch, is tough, yet qualified.
When both Mrs. Starch and Smoke go missing, it is up to Nick and Marta to solve the mystery. Environmental issues, criminal activity, and worries about Nick's dad overseas in Iraq all meld into a story about an endangered panther and its kitten. All involved step up to the plate and their admirable qualities arise when the environment and its fauna are being threatened unnecessarily by humans and their greed.
Scat is much like Hiaasen's other environmentally responsible books, as it introduces us to the peril, we as humans, create for our globe and all its inhabitants. We begin to see that we cannot accept every action for face value...sometimes there are reasons for, and reasons against seemingly simple scenarios. Much of what we do, does have consquences and we must weigh the benefits against the damages inflicted upon our planet.
