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Pre-K students Aaron Dusing, Landon Bayles, Christopher McCaslin, Logan Weng and Jacob Gilliam learn about gardening.

A Green EducationLocal students learn how their food makes it to the dinner table

BY MICHELLE HORSTJOURNAL STAFF WRITER

MARTINSBURG — Jill Orsini uses gar-dening to help her students learn science,math, health and improve language skills.Orsini, a pre-kindergarten teacher at Pike-

side Learning Center in Berkeley County, is oneof several teachers who began the garden project inthe spring. For the third year, a neighbor has vol-unteered his time to plow the garden and prepareit for planting.“Each teacher can have a row to plant. This year

we have planted a lot of pumpkins. We also plant-ed sunflowers, other flower seeds and tomatoes,”Orsini said.“In the spring we study seeds, and talk about

seeds that we eat and ones that animals eat. This fallwe will look at corn – I’ll bring in corn stalks that havefield corn on it versus the sweet corn that we eat, and they getto feel it and understand it,” Orsini said.Orsini took her students out in the sunshine Friday morn-

ing, and they discussed which plants they wanted to bring infor the fair the classroom held. The group of 4-year-old stu-dents got out measuring tapes and discussed which of theplants were the largest.Many of the students, Orsini said, do not know where their

food comes from. In addition to explaining what seeds need togrow and how to plant them, the students can understand

how their food grows and that its source is not thegrocery store.

Pikeside is using the gardens to pro-mote healthy eating for its students.Teachers and teaching assistants sitwith the children during breakfast andlunch and talk about what food is on theirplates and where it comes from.

Michelle Martin, director of pre-K programs forBerkeley County Schools, said language and literacyare two of the focal points for the preschools in Berke-

ley, Jefferson and Morgan counties. The counties will bedoing a collaborative staff development with the state depart-ment of education.

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BY SAMANTHA CRONKJOURNAL STAFF WRITER

MARTINSBURG — The Berkeley County Solid WasteAuthority was recently awarded a $12,500 grant to help fundbrush- and Christmas tree-grinding activities provided throughthe recycling program.TheWest Virginia SolidWaste Management Board award-

ed the grant, of which $10,000 will be utilized toward grind-ing brush and Christmas trees, and $2,500 will fund capitalimprovements to the BCSWA office.Of Berkeley County’s three recycling facilities, two – the

Grapevine Road Recycling Center in Martinsburg and theSouth Berkeley Recycle Center in Inwood – accept brush andChristmas trees.“We’re looking this year, between these two sites, to spend

between $40,000 and $45,000 to grind brush. So this$10,000 will help a lot with that,” said Clint Hogbin, chair ofthe BCSWA.Use of the three recycling centers is free except for brush

deliveries. The BCSWA charges $5 for a large load of brushor $1 for a small delivery of brush. While the fee helps offsetthe cost of grinding the brush, it does not completely covergrinding costs.Currently the Grapevine Road facility has a pile of brush

covering more than an acre of the site, which is much morethan normal due to the debris from the June 29 storm, Hogbinsaid.

Grants keeprecycling affordable

“We’re looking this year,between these two sites, tospend between $40,000 and$45,000 to grind brush. So this$10,000 will help a lot withthat.”

Clint Hogbin, chair of the BCSWA

Solid Waste Authority gets $12,500 for grinding of brush, Christmas trees

BY JULIE PACEASSOCIATED PRESS

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Don’t expect Pres-ident Barack Obama to try to reinvent himselfnext week at the Democratic Party’s nationalconvention. Instead, he and a slew of hisdefenders will seek to convince voters to stickwith the president they know rather than gam-ble on someone new, a challenging task giventhat most Americans say the country is headingin the wrong direction.“This Thursday, I will offer you what I

believe is a better path forward, a path thatAP photo

President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign stop in Sioux City, Iowa, Saturday.

BY KASIE HUNTAssociated Press

CINCINNATI — Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney vowedSaturday to lead America to a “winning season” and insisted that his partywould stick to the promises of fiscal responsibility that it had abandoned inthe past.“We’re going to finally have to do something that Republicans have spo-

ken about for a long time, and for a while we didn’t do it. When we had thelead, we let people down,” Romney told a roaring crowd in Ohio as HouseSpeaker John Boehner, a longtime congressional leader, stood behind him.“We need to make sure we don’t let them down this time. I will cut the

deficit and get us on track to a balanced budget.”The former Massachusetts governor blames Presi-

dent Barack Obama, a Democrat, for the country’sexploding debt and deficits.Romney himself has not yet provided enough policy

detail to show whether his budget plan would cut thedeficit in the long term. The budget that his runningmate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, wrote andthat House Republicans passed this yearshows a decline in the deficit each year

Romney vows a ‘winning season’GOP candidate promises to get federal budget under control

GOPPresidentialCandidateMitt Romney

CLARKSBURG — The U.S. Mar-shals Service’s Mountain State FugitiveTask Force apprehended 38 fugitiveslast week during a weeklong operationthroughout the northern portion of thestate, the agency announced Thursday.

During “Operation Recall,” DeputyU.S. Marshals and their task force part-ners scoured the state for subjects want-ed on outstanding felony capias warrantsstemming from the state’s circuit courts.Operation Recall resulted in 38 phys-

ical arrests, eight detainers being filedafter it was discovered the fugitiveswere in custody on unrelated matters and

Operation Recallnets 38 fugitives

Obama looksto keep voters

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