Denise Scribner, retired Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland staff member and current First Aid/CPR volunteer, has received the 2009 Award of Excellence for Conservation and Environmental Education for grades K-12 from the Kansas Association of Conservation and Environmental Education and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). She will be presented with the award at the annual awards ceremony in Topeka on April 3rd, 2009.

Additionally Denise had applied and recently received a $4,500 Kansas Green School Grant for her school (Goddard High School). The grant will be used to install a windmill aeration system at the interpretive pond located at the Outdoor Wildlife Learning Site (OWLS) on the school grounds. The installation of the alternative energy source windmill will help to oxygenate the pond by getting rid of the bacteria developed from the non-point source pollution from parking lot runoff that fills the pond after rains. It is the first demonstration project of its kind at a Kansas school. So if you are near Goddard on 199th Street drive by the high school and check it out--it should be up and running by the end of April.