FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 23, 2010
June 23, 2010
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Gordon Clark gordon@montgomeryvictorygardens.org
Montgomery County Commission on Health Challenges
MCPS Ban on School Vegetable Gardens
MCPS Ban on School Vegetable Gardens
Commission Is Latest Group to Join Public Letter to Superintendent Weast
Silver Spring, MD - The latest in a growing collection of civic and community groups in Montgomery County requesting that the Montgomery County Public Schools ban on vegetable gardens be revoked is a government agency that knows something about health.
On Tuesday, June 21, the Montgomery County Commission on Health, part of the County's Department of Health and Human Services, signed on to the public letter to MCPS Superintendent Jerry Weast requesting that he reconsider his anti-vegetable garden policy.
Joining initial co-signers such as the West Montgomery County Citizens Association, the Audubon Naturalist Society, the Montgomery Countryside Alliance, and the National Capital Area Garden Clubs, MC Commission on Health Chair Wendy Friar yesterday delivered her group's support to Montgomery Victory Gardens and the Montgomery County Master Gardener Association, co-writers of the letter to Superintendent Weast.
"Your leadership in this area is most timely and welcome," noted Ms. Friar, adding "your organizations' initiative is directly tied to a goal of the Commission's Prevention and Wellness Committee to actively pursue reduction of childhood obesity through diet and exercise."
The open letter was delivered to Superintendent Weast and the School Board of Education on June 3; as of this date, neither has responded.
The open letter to Superintendent Weast regarded school vegetable gardens can be viewed at http://montgomeryvictorygardens.org/documents/htm/weast_ltr.htm
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