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Montgomery County communities come together to create
greener schools
Schools participate in first-ever Green Apple Day of Service
By Peggy McEwan Staff Writer
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Students and school staff in four Montgomery County Public
Schools gardened, planted and painted projects for the first
Green Apple Day of Service, a global initiative of the Center
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Diana Combs, took all four of her children to school Saturday,
Sept. 29 and made sure they got some work done.
They didn’t mind. It was the Green Apple Day of Service at A.
Mario Loiederman Middle School in Silver Spring, where
Peggy McEwan/The Gazette Eighth-grader Zachary
Combs, 13, and his sisterJessica Combs, 12, a seventhgrader, plant coneflowers during A. Mario Loiederman
Middle School's Green Apple Day event Saturday, Sept.
29. Behind them, Geneva Reese, 12, and Vivian Jacobs,
12, both seventh-graders, also work on planting.
students helped create a rain garden in front of the school.
Students, staff, parents and even some neighbors — more
than 50 volunteers in total — gathered at the school to
transform a bland stretch of grass and dirt into an
environmentally sound and pleasing looking garden.
“I’m so excited, this is going to be such an improvement,” said
Combs, who lives in Takoma Park but has two children
attending the school for its arts program.
A rain garden is designed to allow rain water to soak into the
soil rather than run off into the street, explained Daniel
Summers, with the RainScape program at the Department of
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“We collected at least 30 bags of trash and recyclables,” said Vice Principal Bob Geiger, project coordinator for the
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school’s Green Apple Day program.
Cedar Grove Elementary School in Germantown signed on to the program but will have their day of service at the end of
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Projects at the school include reconstructing four student-created bottle cap murals in the garden play area and painting
outside safety rails.
“We got a late start and there was no point in rushing,” Project Coordinator Chinmay Vyas said, explaining the October
date.
Nicole Sosik, Loiederman principal, said the rain garden project was not just a one-day happening at the school.
“This is more like an outdoor education project, students will keep it up and we will expand it,” she said.
Vivian Jacobs and Geneva Reese, Loiederman seventh-graders, worked together planting and mulching the garden.
“I think this is a wonderful project,” Geneva said. “I thought the school could look artsy-er and greener.”
For more information about Green Apple Day of Service, visit www.mygreenapple.org.
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