FIRST-GRADER WINS ECOLOGY ART CONTEST.Byline: Alicia Doyle Daily News Staff Writer Seven-year-old Jessie Verroca never expected to take first place in a coloring contest that nearly 1,000 students entered. But Jessie admitted she was proud to accept the honor for coloring a cartoon bear named Sierra, who encourages children to conserve water. ``I'm happy,'' said Jessie, who was honored Sunday at the Westlake Yacht Club's third annual Ecology Day Regatta regatta: see rowing; sailing. A high-end Unix-based pSeries server from IBM. Introduced in late 2001, the model p690 incorporates mainframe class self healing capabilities and partitioning to the pSeries (RS/6000) family for the first time. . ``It's fun to win.'' The Ecology Day Regatta was held in conjunction with Water Awareness Month and featured a sailboat regatta, an electric boat race and songs from Los Cerritos Middle School students. Jessie was among hundreds of first-graders in the Las Virgenes Unified School District Las Virgenes Unified School District (LVUSD) is a K-12 school district in north-west Los Angeles County, USA consisting of 14 public schools in the cities of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Westlake Village, and several small portions of the West Hills section of Los Angeles. who participated in the Sierra the Bear coloring contest earlier this spring. Jessie and other students were given white, stuffed bears and water conservation tips that could last a lifetime. ``Water is precious,'' said Virginia Drasnin, a member of the Westlake Woman's Club, who created Sierra, the water conservation bear. ``When children learn to love the bear, they also learn how important it is to conserve water,'' she said. Drasnin, a retired architect, introduced Sierra the Bear to the district's eight elementary schools elementary school: see school. in 1993. The bear - named after the Sierra Nevada Sierra Nevada, mountain range, Spain Sierra Nevada (syā`rä nāvä`thä), chief mountain range of S Spain, in Granada prov., running from east to west for c.60 mi (100 km), parallel to the Mediterranean Sea. mountain range - is the centerpiece of her conservation campaign that is designed to teach children about the importance of saving water. Children who compete in the coloring contest must first learn that all living things Living Things may refer to:
v. re·plen·ished, re·plen·ish·ing, re·plen·ish·es v.tr. 1. To fill or make complete again; add a new stock or supply to: replenish the larder. 2. water that is used. Charlotte Meyer, vice president of the Las Virgenes Unified School District's school board, said the program is an effective tool to teach children about water conservation. She also believes children are never too young to become environmentally conscious. ``They need to learn about the environment early on, so they'll have one to enjoy in the future,'' Meyer said. Fred Reed, a Westlake Yacht Club vice commodore One of the first personal computer companies. In 1977, Commodore Business Machines, West Chester, PA, introduced the PET computer and launched the personal computer industry along with Apple and Radio Shack. In 1982, it introduced the Commodore 64 (64K RAM) and later the Commodore 128. , said Drasnin's program is a fun way to teach children how to be more conscious of water, earth and air preservation. ``They learn not to pollute pol·lute v. 1. To make unfit for or harmful to living things, especially by the addition of waste matter; contaminate. 2. To make less suitable for an activity, especially by the introduction of unwanted factors. the lakes and not to litter,'' Reed said. ``And they learn how to play a responsible part in the world.'' CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--color in CONEJO edition only) Seven-year-oldJessie Verroca is shown with the stuffed bear she won in the Sierra the Bear ecology coloring contest sponsored by the Westlake Yacht Club. (2--ran in CONEJO edition only) Hundreds of Las Virgenes Unified School District pupils entered the Sierra the Bear coloring contest. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News |
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