{"id":13784,"date":"2016-05-20T07:30:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T11:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=13784"},"modified":"2016-05-20T07:30:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T11:30:40","slug":"berks-county-conservation-district-holds-paint-the-rain-contest-with-local-high-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=13784","title":{"rendered":"Berks County Conservation District Holds \u201cPaint the Rain Contest\u201d with Local High Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The first place winner was Berks Catholic High School
Environmental Science & Meteorology Class.<\/p><\/div>\n\nAs reported in the May 9, 2016 edition of Front Page<\/em>, Berks County Conservation District (BCCD) held an Earth Day event on April 22. One of the activities was the \u201cPaint the Rain\u201d contest.\n\nNine high schools with eighteen painted rain barrels participated in the BCCD Paint the Rain School Competition. The event was a rain barrel decorating contest for high schools throughout Berks County. The BCCD provided each participating class or school club with one rain barrel, a gift card for $25 (to help with the cost of painting supplies), and an in-classroom presentation\/technical support visit from the BCCD.\n\nAll competitors painted the rain barrel for the 2016 theme, \u201cWe all Need Trees,\u201d and completed an associated education program in which they had to educate their school community about rain barrels and natural resource conservation.\n\nThe public voted for their favorite rain barrel during the BCCD\u2019s Annual Tree Seedling Sale and Backyard Basics event on April 22, 2016. At the same time, a silent auction was taking place where the public could bid on a barrel to take home.\u00a0 All proceeds from the silent auction went to the BCCD\u2019s scholarship fund. Click here<\/a> to read a news article on the contest.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As reported in the May 9, 2016 edition of Front Page, Berks County Conservation District (BCCD) held an Earth Day event on April 22. One of the activities was the \u201cPaint the Rain\u201d contest. Nine high schools with eighteen painted rain barrels participated in the BCCD Paint the Rain School Competition. The event was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}