Award Winners announced at Party!
YES! Southern Region award winners announced at New Ulm Putting Green Earth Day Party! Congratulations to ALL 2010-2011 YES teams 1st place: Westbrook-Walnut Grove 2nd place: Springfield 3rd place: Windom and Redwood Falls Teamwork & Goal-setting: Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop Creativity & Innovation: New Ulm Putting Green Community Involvement: Springfield Energy Conservation: Westbrook-Walnut Grove Economic Potential & Career Awareness:... [Read More...]
Alexandria Eco Fair
YES! students promoted and participated in Alexandria’s Eco Fair last Thursday image courtesy of Echo Press Alexandria students distributed fliers and sold t-shirts to help promote Alexandria’s annual Eco Fair. YES! students also hosted educational booths on topics such as deforestation at the event. Read more on the event from their local newspaper, Echo Press: http://www.echopress.com/event/article/id/83993/publisher_ID/2/ Read More →
Award Winners announced!
YES! awards the outstanding work of 2011Northern Region teams Northern region teams gathered Saturday at Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center at the annual Earth Day event. Though snow and cloud cover were present throughout the day, our excitement for conservation and renewables could not be kept at bay! After enjoying a pancake breakfast, some wall climbing, great exhibits and even a Puppet Show! – teams were presented with category... [Read More...]
Ground-breaking Ceremony and Trail Clean-up
Sunday, April 17th 2:00pm Lac qui Parle Valley, MN The Lac qui Parle Valley YES! Team will be hosting a groundbreaking ceremony and trail cleanup on April 17 at 2:00 pm. The YES! Team would like to invite community members to help them celebrate the first step of their “Light the Trail Project” which will involve the installation of solar-powered lights on the bike trail behind the Appleton Area Health... [Read More...]
Litchfield Electronics Recycling
Saturday, April 16th 9am-2pm Litchfield’s YES! team is sponsoring a FREE electronics recycling collection. Bring your old TVs, VCRs, Computers &computer accessories, cellphones, stereos, DVD players, video game systems etc… and the team will take care of the rest! Plan to bring any of these old/used items to the Civic Center Parking lot on your way to the Litchfield Chamber of Commerce Business Expo. Read More →
