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STAMFORD, Conn. Academically talented children in Stamford's Starfish Connection program got a lesson in giving back recently. The kids and their mentors picked up litter in Stamford's John J. Boccuzzi Southfield Park, including more than 200 beverage containers, 300 cigarette butts and 160 plastic bags.
Theyre part of this community and they need we all need to take care of it, said Jim Benjamin, one of the mentors in the Starfish Connection program. The cleanup was Benjamin's idea. It included the following items, according to a press release:
161 plastic bags;
6 balloons;
93 plastic beverage bottles;
98 glass beverage bottles;
39 beverage cans;
207 bottle caps and lids;
19 items of clothing;
101 cups, plates, forks, spoons, or knives;
123 food wrappers or containers;
3 pull tabs;
41 straws and stirrers;
20 toys;
306 cigarette butts;
10 pieces of building material, and too many pieces of glass to count.
The children will be add the items to a tally being kept by volunteers with the Ocean Conservancy, the release said.
Starfish Connection provides academically talented students who are in the free lunch program at Stamford Public Schools with a mentor to help them to learn, grow, and enhance their skills, the release said.
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