SSC Year in Review: Highlights of 2021

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  • The Sharon Public School - Town Recycling Coordinator position, helped fill position

  • Read for the Planet book group, The Future We Choose, Surviving the Climate Crisis and Braiding Sweetgrass

  • Sharon Power Choice, the local electricity aggregation program, helped promote

  • Reusable SSC bags available at seven Sharon locations, featuring artwork from high school student contest winners

  • Suggested ways to reduce trash and save money to the Select Board

  • Speaker: Madhavi Poreddy, Sharon resident and passionate gardener

  • Citizen Petition passed at Town Meeting for a three-year moratorium on artificial turf field

  • Speaker: Paul Hilton, Sharon resident and portfolio manager at Trillium Asset Management spoke of “Investing to Fight Climate Change”

  • Lynn Wolbarst Sustainability Award 2021 presented to Dr. Ricky Stern

  • SSC Youth organized Tree Planting at Deborah Sampson Park

  • SSC Prompt: School Committee & Select Board Candidates’ Responses

  • Speaker: Kevin Weber, Operations and Forestry & Grounds Division Supervisor, Sharon DPW

  • SSC co-sponsored Lake Massapoag and surrounding area clean-up

  • Speaker: Eric Hooper, Superintendent, DPW - Update on PFAS in Well #4

  • High School Sustainability Achievement Award 2021 to: Aneeza Ahmad (First Place), Melissa Tian (Second Place), and Julia Earley (Honorable Mention)

  • SSC Kids: Sharon Train Station cleanup, upcycled art, Langwater Farm field trip, “pickup and play” trash events, and Pollinator Garden Prep for the winter at the Trustees of Moose Hill Farm

  • SSC Food Group webinar, “A versatile meat substitute: seitan”

  • Sharon Conservation Days, SSC Table

  • Speaker: Cathy Kristofferson, alerted SSC to a $90M gas pipeline project called “Sharon Gate to Brockton 265 # Line Reliability” scheduled to start in 2024, SSC Energy Group

  • Sharon Day: Reduce/recycle activities for kids and educational material about water

  • SSC Transportation Group: Halloween Bike Ride

  • SSC speaker: Madeline Champagne, “Raising Monarchs and Monitoring the Frosted Elfin Butterfly, Part I”

  • Conversations at the Meetinghouse, “Reimagine Our World: Reimagine the recycling bin, the shared roadway, the power grid and our relationship to nature,” Zoom Meeting hosted by the Unitarian Church of Sharon

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