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Region revels in Earth Day festivities
Date: 4/23/2012 Album ID: 1456586
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At the Earth Day event in Old Manchester, children lent a hand toward making a poster for the VCU Children's Hospital by making handprints with paint. The Blue Sky Fund provided the activity.
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Caroline Rodgers, 9, has her tomato plant watered at the Fool for Art festival at John Tyler Community College's Midlothian campus. The plants are to be taken to the homes of children and planted. Caroline took part in many activities in the Art of Learning tent, which offered some Earth Day-related activities.
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Rich Morgenthalar, an engineering student at John Tyler Community College, demonstrates unique heating properties of strontium chloride at the Fool for Art festival at the JTCC Midlothian campus. Morgenthalar and other students in the Chemistry 112 class at JTCC were on hand to show how cool some of the elements are, another student said.
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Seth Revere, 7, checks out a skeleton at the anatomy and biology exhibit during the Fool for Art event at the Midlothian campus of John Tyler Community College, April 21, 2012.
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As the mascot for Helping Hands Affordable Veterinary Surgery & Dental Care, Chilly Pasternak sports a colorful hairstyle, with a peaceful message. Chilly was spreading the word at the Earth Day festivities in Old Manchester, on Hull Street, near the Mayo Bridge.
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At the Earth Day event in Old Manchester, Robert Hicks, 14 (right) and his brother, Christopher Hicks, 12 (center) and another biker provide generator power to recharge cell phones as part of the Pedal Power project. Pedal Popwer's goal is to teach consumers ways to use less energy. The rear wheels of the bikes have small generators which send power to DC-current batteries which, then, is converted to AC-current.
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At the Earth Day festivities in Old Manchester, Olivia Whitaker, 3, dances to live music with her Aunt Becky Whitaker. Others relax on some of the 20 bales (about 15 tons) of cardboard provided as seating areas by Sonoco Recycling.
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Genna Markee, 13, greets visitors to the Midlothian campus of John Tyler Community College during the Fool for Art event. With a bent on Earth Day, Genna was promoting recycling by dressing up as a recycling bin. She handed out stickers and coloring books and recycling bin-shaped keychains.
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Genna Markee, 13, greets visitors to the Midlothian campus of John Tyler Community College during the Fool for Art event. With a bent on Earth Day, Genna was promoting recycling by dressing up as a recycling bin. She handed out stickers and coloring books and recycling bin-shaped keychains.
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