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.

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