Organizers

of Children's Week in Peachtree City, conducted the first

week of November, report that this most recent program

was a rousing success, with hundreds of elementary school

students taking part in six days of activitites

designated to help them learn more about the environment.

A full

house of about 200 people packed the City Hall chambers

for the Nov. 9 meeting of the Commission for Children and

Youth to see the winners of the annual Children's Week

art contest receive their awards.

The art

work was displayed in the library for a week.

The theme

for Children's Week was "A Healthy Environment for

Future Generations - R U Solution or Pollution?"

Separate

categories were designed for the different age groups

among Peachtree City's elementary school students.

Kindergarten and first grade students entered

illustrations along an anti-littering theme. In second

and third grade, children contributed posters, stories,

poems or paragraphs on recycling. Students in fourth and

fifth grade did similar work, but with the dangers of

tobacco as the topic. Special education classes

concentrated on littering or recycling illustrations.

A total of

279 students from four elementary schools submitted art

work, with 179 of those coming from Kedron Elementary.

Kedron teachers received special recognition for the

level of their students' participation.

Other

schools contributing art work were Braelinn, Peachtree

City and Huddleston. Oak Grove Elementary students did

not take part in the art contest, but that school was

recognized by the CCY for its annual Pride Day, when

students set aside time to clean up the entire

environment around the school.

Three high

school students from the Youth Advisory Board -

Joshelin Kantor and Jennifer Carlton of McIntosh, and

Lisa Gentilini of Starr's Mill - put on skits at Oak

Grove and Huddleston involving the fictitious character

"Earthina," who teaches children about

pollution, recycling and other related subjects.

A citywide

work day was Saturday, Nov. 6, with various cleanup

projects in the morning and a celebration afterward at

Shakerag Knoll that included a number of fun activities

for students. Projects that day and throughout the week

included picking up trash, stocking ponds with fish and

installing mulch at the Flat Creek Nature Preserve.

On the

heels of Children's Week, the CCY plans to report to the

City Council at that body's Dec. 16 meeting with

information about its reorganization plans. The CCY has

in recent months been reduced in size to three members

while studying more precisely what its mission will be in

the near future.