Word: littlewood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...help out with the dishes after dinner. Sometimes it takes a kid to inspire other kids to care--a kid like Will Vinson, 12, whose aluminum-can-recycling crusade lit a fire under the city's next generation. Since he was a nine-year-old fourth-grader at Littlewood Elementary School, Will has united classmates, teachers, recycling firms and other local companies in a bid to rid Gainesville's school grounds of trash and develop youth recycling programs. Says Will: "I knew that if I did it, the other kids would stand...
Next he needed to convince other kids. He wrote entertaining spots for Littlewood's closed-circuit TV program (his slogan: "We love the 3 Rs: reduce, recycle, reuse!"), but at first many students resisted--and threw banana peels and other unsuitable garbage into his recycling bins. "One kid even got sick in one of them," Will recalls. Soon his buddies started to get the message, and the school's Girl Scout, Cub Scout and Boy Scout troops joined in, helping him recycle hundreds of pounds of cans that netted more than $100 for Littlewood's Head Start preschool program...