Aiming High piles up millions of pop tabs
Family Recovery Center Prevention Specialists Jess Krulik, left, and Kelly Seddon scale the mountain of pop tabs that the center's Education Department's Aiming High Program collected from area schools this year. The money generated by recycling the tabs will be used to send area students in grades first through sixth to leadership camp. (Salem News photo by Kevin Howell)
LISBON— The Family Recovery Center’s Educational Department program, Aiming High, has once again collected pop tabs at the Columbiana County schools this year.
In its third year of collecting, Aiming High has already topped the previous two years’ totals with two weeks remaining in the project.
Prevention Specialist Kelly Seddon estimated that over 3 million tabs equaling nearly 2,800 pounds will have been collected by the end of the project, topping last year’s 2.8 million at 2,140 pounds. She said that the total money generated would probably be the same, though, at $1,800.
Proceeds from the recycling of the pop tabs will be used to send county youth to a leadership camp in June and further their participation in the Columbiana County Youth Leadership Coalition, which benefits the schools, according to Seddon.
“The students take what they learn at the camp and apply it in the schools,” she said. “Its something that benefits more than
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