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On Sunday, April 23, the LVR High School Green Team along with support from members of the West Kootenay Climate Hub held an Earth Day event at the Nelson Innovation Centre from 2- 4 p.m. Earth Day is recognized as the largest secular observance in the world, marked by more than a billion people every year as a day of action to change human behaviour and create global,
Durango High School Green Team club members picked up trash Wednesday at school campuses and near the Animas River as part of the club’s Zero Waste Week.
Student teams also gathered at Park Elementar.
Libby Gillis smiles as a Girl Scout Daisy in 2011.
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Libby Gillis speaks in a climate change awareness video.
(Photo provided) TUPPER LAKE Libby Gillis earned the Girl Scouts’ highest level, the Gold Award, in October 2020 for her work to raise awareness about climate change. A Gold Award is equivalent to the Boy Scouts’ Eagle Scout designation. Gillis is a junior at Tupper Lake High School and the daughter of Robert Gillis and Lisa Littlefield-Gillis. She is part of Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York Service Unit 454, Troop 4123 of Tupper Lake. With the support of her school’s environmental club, the Green Team, Gillis started an annual Green (spirit) Week at her school. She also created a Green Week video to raise awareness outside of the school, which won awards at the AdkAction Beyond the Peaks Student Film Festival, in both its category and second place in the Audience Choice category. She also created a video to teach others about the sc