Artwork of Kalib Burbank, First Place in the Grade 7 Division, Sharon Academy
Burlington - The 2021 Growing Works of Art contest attracted a record 225 entries from 16 schools and 11 homeschool families.
The theme of this year s contest was Healthy Trees, Healthy Lives. Students were asked to create a drawing and written story to share how trees impact our health and our communities.
The contest is sponsored annually by the Vermont Urban and Community Forestry Program in partnership with University of Vermont Extension and the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. Entries were judged on originality and creativity (50 percent) and how well the students told their tree story (50 percent).
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Vermont Business Magazine Vermonters were simply unwilling to let go of the 50-year-old Springtime tradition called Green Up Day that spruces up our communities, even during a global pandemic. It wasn’t the same Green Up Day with community celebrations and barbecues, but volunteers throughout Vermont wanted to do their part for their environment, nonetheless.
Vermonters used innovation and ingenuity to get the job of cleaning hundreds of tons of trash from our roads and waterways and it made all the difference – a job well done, a sense of normalcy and a feeling of being able to do something effective when COVID-19 was making us all feel a little helpless.