Tessa Graves and Cameron Long, third-graders at Harmony Elementary School, put paper into a recycling bin outside the school on South Harmony Road. Harmony students used an ecology grant from the Cushing Public Schools Foundation to purchase recyclling materials.

Third-graders at Harmony Elementary School are hoping to hit a home run in the game of recycling. They have lined up a triple play of activities in their attempt.
Students taught by Debbie Cochran and Vicki Daves are helping the school and the community recycle, reduce and reuse. Through ecology grant moneys provided by the Cushing Educational Foundation, a recycling bin has been placed in the parking lot at the school on South Harmony Road. Funds generated through recycling will benefit the next generation of students at Harmony, Cochran said.
She said students soon will step up to the plate for recycling aluminum cans and plastic bottles. Money raised through recycling will be paid forward to the learning lab at Cushing High School and will help students attend the Special Olympics.
In conjunction with Harmony’s participation in the Schools for Healthy Lifestyles program, students are collecting labels from Nestle Pure Life products. Labels will be exchanged for school equipment.