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CONTACT: Barbara Humphrey, Co-Chair
Behumphrey@no.address
315-440-9341
2008 Westcott Street Cultural Fair
Sunday September 21, 2008
GOES
GREEN
We can?t guarantee blue skies awash in golden sun for the 2008 Westcott
Street Cultural Fair on Sunday, September 21, but we can guarantee
fairgoers will be saving the earth while enjoying the day. Celebrating a
neighborhood that is home to committed environmentalists and activists,
this years? Westcott Street Cultural Fair will be the greenest in the
event?s 17-year history.
Green Restaurants: Westcott merchants such as Alto Cinco,
University Chiropractic, Vinny?s Liquors, Las Delicias, and Mom?s Diner,
have already taken a pledge to replace their polystyrene foam take-out
containers with biodegradable and compostable products, such as tin foil
and waxed paper; reduce or eliminate plastic bag use by encouraging
customers to bring their own or replace plastic with paper; and
prominently display recycling bins available from OCRRA for their
customers? use. By fair day, we hope all Westcott merchants,
especially those selling food and beer/soda by the cup, will sign the
pledge to go green with the packaging for their take-out food and drinks.
Go Green: To accommodate the increased use of recyclable and
compostable materials, fairgoers will find stations located throughout
the fair that have trash cans, recycling bins, and composting containers
side by side, with compostables collected in biodegradable plastic bags
thanks to a donation from Wegmans. These stations will be staffed
with Go Green Initiative volunteers- primarily students from neighborhood
schools, who are committed to understanding environmentalism and
educating others. At the end of the Fair, all the recycling and
compostable materials collected will be weighed and the amount of
reusable resources were saved from the landfill and Waste-to-Energy
facility will be announced to the community.
Green Sleeves: Thanks, to Naef Recycling, sponsor and
coordinator of the local Go Green Initiative, for spearheading this
effort and making volunteers available to plan and execute this greener
fair and for agreeing to pick up recyclables. Students involved in GGI
are volunteering to staff the disposal stations and educate fair-goers on
how to recycle properly. Look for the GGI educational display at
the Westcott/Beech end of the fair next to The Ant- a sculpture created
entirely out of recyclables by Syracuse?s-own artist Rick Destito.
Thanks also to OCRRA for supplying recycling/composting containers and
volunteers for this effort. OCRRA will be set up at the
Westcott/Dell corner of the Fair handing out Blue Bins and educational
information. We also salute our volunteers who joined with GGI and
OCRRA to make the 17th annual Westcott Fair the greenest yet.
Green Culture: The 2008 Westcott Street Cultural Fair will bring
the 500 block of Westcott and surrounding streets alive with live music,
hands-on activities, delectable ethnic and American foods, unique crafts
from local artists and Westcott merchants, and so much more on Sunday,
September 21 from noon to 6:30 pm. Parking for the disabled is
located in the parking lot next to New Garden Restaurant (accessible from
the north end of Westcott Street). Major sponsorship for the 2008
Westcott Street Cultural Fair has been received from the City of Syracuse
through UNSAAC, Cultural Resources Council/NYSCA DEC, WAER and National
Grid. For more information and directions to the Fair, visit us on line
at http://www.westcottfair.org
or call us at 315-703-6848.
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GW Associates
702 S. Beech
Syracuse, NY 13210
315-476-3396
603-590-8273 fax
pwirth2@no.address
http://www.peterwirth.net
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