Awareness, Smiles, and Education

For the last 15 years, Newtown Earth Day has continued to bring smiles, awareness and education to the Town of Newtown through a day-long festival highlighting the many businesses, non-profit organizations, school and community groups committed to bettering our world. The efforts of this small but dedicated Committee have made possible yearly Newtown Earth Day Scholarships and Grants to further this cause. Many thanks to Dan Holmes, Andy Ashla, Bill Buchler, Aaron Coopersmith, Valerie Hart, Rob Kaiser, Paul Lundquist, Brad Paynter, and Alex Rankin for their hard work and dedication to make this event happen. Further thanks to the event volunteers Sheilah Krasnickas, Jaden Ng, Jennifer Vaughan, Brandon Wong, and the other friends who jump in to help every year.

Last year saw the inaugural Newtown Earth Day Film Festival, held at Edmond Town Hall’s Alexandria Room. Thank you to all – especially our friends at ETH – who made this event such a success.

Additional thanks go out to Iroquois Gas, Associated Refuse, The Newtown Bee, Rankin Textile Printing. Thank you to The Newtown High School Culinary Department. This event would not be nearly as fun or complete without your vision. We thank the generosity of the musicians and My Place Restaurant for their continued support of Newtown Earth Day.

As planning begins for next year’s event – set for Saturday, April 27th – please put us on your calendar and Join Us! We’re always looking for volunteers, vendors and committee members to keep this beloved event going.

Thank you again,

Newtown Earth Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Join Us for the 2nd Annual Newtown Earth Day documentary film series

Thursday, October 19th 7 PM

Edmond Town Hall Alexandria Room

Free and Open to the Public

Light Snacks – Non-Alcoholic Refreshments – Beer – Wine

 

 

Special Thank You to this year’s co-sponsor,

Newtown Forest Association

 

 

 

Reading the Forested Landscape
(75 mins)

In central New England, it’s almost a given that when you walk through a forest, you’ll encounter at least one stone wall. There are well over 100,000 miles of stone fences throughout this region, running every which way through forests. Various types of events have taken place in our forests over the years, including the abandonment of farms, windstorms, and forest fires, and each one leaves their own peculiar traces. Join us to learn how to read your forested landscape.

My Forest Has Worms
(8 mins)

Most of us have always understood that worms are beneficial to the soil. But across New England and northern regions of the United States, where glaciers had buried the land under thousands of feet of ice for thousands of years, no earthworms survived. More recently, non-native, invasive earthworms were introduced to many northern U.S. states and are seriously damaging the forest floor’s duff layer, which is the primary rooting zone of most plants and trees.