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Newtown's 3rd Annual
Earth Day Festival
Awareness - Smiles - Education

Saturday, April 24, 2009
10am-4pm
Newtown Middle School, Queen Street, Newtown CT

Organized by Newtown's Clean Energy Task Force

Newtown’s 3rd Annual Earth Day Festival is less than two weeks away and the excitement is building!

From kids’ activities, live music, tasty food, and an environmental maze to a sunrise service, litter pick-up, and a vendor fair, it’s a great day for helping our community become a bit more aware of being “green”.

This year we are proud to be supporting the Middle School’s “Men in Green”. These six budding environmentalists launched a local tree-planting project that won them the national 2009-2010 Lexus Eco Challenge. Come meet them at the festival and help them with their efforts to distribute 1,000 trees to be planted locally.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Not only are the “Men in Green” planting trees, but they are putting some of their prize money back into our schools to help support earthy friendly programs – possibly composting or even solar panels. This year’s Earth Day Festival will be complementing their efforts and contributing additional funds to support our schools.

Supporters:

Iroquois Gas Alteris Tauton Press

Vendors Sign Up! Activities/Food/Fun

59 Bank Street
Alteris Renewables
Andrea’s Bake Shop
Aquarian Caterers
Audubon Center at Bent of River
Baum Orthodontics
Bitty Birdie Quilts
Blue Yodel Music/Memory Walk
Candlewood Valley Trout Unlimited
Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund Conscious Financial Directions
Dr. Richard Coopersmith, Chiropractor
Entropy Design
Fitness Loft
Girl Scouts of Connecticut
Graceful Planet
Hawley Go Green
Holmes Fine Gardens
Housatonic Valley Waldorf School
Housatonic Valley Group Sierra Club
I Spy Consignment
Jill Lounsbury Wildlife Photography
Iroquois Pipeline Operating Company
Jule’s Mediterranean Cuisine
Junkmail Junkyard
Lions Club
Merrell
Men in Green
Middle Gate Green Team
My Place Restaurant
Newtown Conservation Committee
Newtown Forest Association
Newtown High School Ecology Club
Newtown High School Animal Concerns Club
Odyssey of the Mind
Pootatuck River Association
Popowich Chiropractic & Acupuncture
R-Bar
Roots & Shoots
The Taunton Press
Wide World of Spice
Wild Birds Unlimited
WOW Green








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Activities:

-- Lions Club’s “Lose the Litter”
-- “Hootenanny” at My Place Restaurant
-- Taunton Press’s “Rain Barrel Raffle”
-- Ecumenical Sunrise Service
-- Vendor Fair & Food Court
-- Dance Performances by The Graceful Planet
-- Interactive Environmental Maze (sponsored by Merrell)
-- Tree Saplings from Newtown’s Middle School “Men in Green”
-- Nature Arts and Crafts
-- “Recycled Art Show”
-- Local Businesses, School Clubs, and Town Associations

Music & Food:

-- The Bandolins -- Hot picking from this six-piece bluegrass instrumentalists
-- Singer/Songwriters -- John Tamburello, Chris Ellis, and Richard Coopersmith
-- 59 Bank Street’s “Open Mic” -- Featuring The Pears, Don Lowe, & Mark Elkins
-- The Graceful Planet -- Dance performances from this talented troupe of artists
-- The Northwest Quartet -- Modern jazz, fusion, and blues
-- Men in Green – Local “enviro-rappers” giving 50 Cent a run for his bling
-- The Skanktones – Infectious reggae and good-time grooves

-- The creative global cuisine of Aquarian Caterers
-- Pizza supreme from My Place Restaurant
-- Healthy and tasty food from Jule’s Mediterranean Cuisine
-- The all natural snack power of R-Bar
-- Pastries from Andrea’s Bake Shop






About Newtown’s Earth Day Festival:

The primary mission of Newtown Earth Day is to foster education and awareness of environmental stewardship through project participation and collaboration with local associations. Organized by Newtown’s Clean Energy Task Force, this annual event will bring together schools, municipal and charitable organizations, sustainable vendors, and no-profits, in a synergistic celebration of good deeds for our space on the planet. The event will also provide a forum for residents of all ages to become more engaged in the collective consciousness and responsibility we all have in the health of our Newtown – and our region’s soil, air, and water.

Helpful Links

www.ctinnovations.com

www.environmentconnecticut.org

www.ctsavesenergy.org

www.cl-p.com

www.energystar.gov



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