| Schuylkill Action Network (SAN) Honors Students |
 The Schuylkill Action Network honored students from three schools in southeastern Pennsylvania this week for their efforts to protect source water in the Schuylkill River watershed. Two of the awards went to schools in the Berks County area.
The goal of the SAN Educational Sector Award is to recognize students and teachers for their leadership in protecting sources of drinking water in the Schuylkill River watershed.
- Kutztown Area Middle School, Kutztown: Students helped the Borough of Kutztown construct and maintain the Sacony Trail adjacent to the school, plant native vegetation, and wrote nature guides and essays. The Berks County Conservancy has been working with Kutztown teachers and students with their projects. In Fall 2009, we celebrated the completion of the Sacony Trail with the students.
- Reading Area Community College, Reading: Students developed a year-long campus campaign called Get Your Fill! that focused attention on protecting municipal drinking water supplies by distributing 3,000 refillable drinking water bottles and bottle fillers on campus water fountains.
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| Schuylkill Action Network's (SAN) Agricultural Project Tour |
 This week, the Berks County Conservancy and Berks County Conservation District led an agricultural tour of Berks County to the Berks County Planning Commission, local Environmental Advisory Committees, and Department of Environmental Protection and Environmental Protection Agency representatives. The bus tour visited various SAN farm projects in Berks County.
Highlights included SAN projects with streambank fencing, cattle crossings, and plantings. The tour showcased many water-quality improvements in agricultural areas of Berks County. |
| Where is THIS Special Place? |
 In issues of our Enews, "Conservation in Your Community," we usually feature a special place in Berks.
This time, we want you to guess one of the special places in Berks County.
If you are correct and we randomly select you from our submissions, you will win an item from our Berks Conservancy store.
Congratulations to Dick Diehm, who guessed our last issue's photo - the Sacony Trail, in Kutztown. |
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