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STEELE CREEK NEWS

Recycling Festival at McDowell Nature Center October 8

You're invited to attend The Green Village, A Festival of Recycling and Conservation featuring a Craft Fair and Community Yard Sale

(August 11, 2005) Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation and Mecklenburg County Solid Waste Services will sponsor a recycling festival on Saturday, October 8 from 9:00 to 2:00 at the McDowell Nature Center. This is the third year in a row for the event.

The name of the event this year is: The Green Village, A Festival of Recycling and Conservation featuring a Craft Fair and Community Yard Sale. Sponsors will create a little village at the nature center pavilion whose motto is "Reduce-Reuse-Recycle."

The festival will have artists who use recycled materials selling their wares (garden art, furniture, toys, quilted items, baskets). The Steele Creek Library will collect gently used books and have a display on their recycling program. There'll also be a native plant nursery, a post office, a coffee shop and many more "stores" and organizations represented that recycle items.

The Scrap Exchange from Durham will be there with a truckload of industrial waste items that will be used to create make it and take it art for kids and adults. There will be music, food and fun for the whole family. School groups and scout troops will be able to gain community service hours or work on badges as well.

For more information or if you're interested in selling at the yard sale, please contact contact Karen McKenzie by phone at 704-588-5224 or by e-mail at mckenak@co.mecklenburg.nc.us or June Blotnick (seablotnick@bellsouth.net or 704-375-1913).

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