Media Advisory: RWS Community Mascot to visit Lunt Elementary School in Falmouth

WHAT: The Regional Waste Systems community mascot, Reggie the Raccoon, along with Eric Root, Director of Materials Recycling at RWS, will visit schoolchildren at Falmouth's Lunt Elementary School for a presentation on recycling. Fuzzy mascot + children = Nice Photo

WHEN: THURSDAY, November 14, 2002
10 a.m., Lunt Elementary School

WHERE: 74 Lunt Road in Falmouth. (Directions from Portland: Take Interstate 295 north to Exit 10. Take a right off the exit and follow straight through the first intersection. After the intersection, make your first left onto Lunt Road. The school is the first building on the right.)

MEDIA CONTACT: Jason Wolfe at Wolfe PR, 775-5115, Eric Root at RWS, 773-6465, or Susan Arsenault at Lunt Elementary, 781-7424.

BACKGROUND:
RWS, through its community mascot - Reggie the Raccoon - offers an age-appropriate recycling informational program geared for children in grades K - 3. Reggie, along with Eric Root, Director of Materials Recycling at RWS, deliver a fun and informative message about how we can all do our part to value the environment. Reggie is a costumed character, in the tradition of Slugger the Sea Dog, and offers kids a lesson on recycling and the environment that they can take home to their parents and retain on their own.

Regional Waste Systems is a non-profit municipal solid waste and recycling organization owned and controlled by 27 towns in southern Maine. RWS accepts solid waste and recycled materials from its member communities and operates the largest municipal recycling program in Maine with more than 100 recycling bins in 60 locations. For more info on RWS, visit www.regionalwaste.org.