BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WECT) – Civic responsibility and advocacy are important skills Bolivia Elementary third grade students will demonstrate as they present a recycling proposal to the Brunswick County Commissioners during their regular scheduled meeting Monday, May 21, 2012.

Students in April Trull's third grade class have been studying natural resources and our impact on the depletion of these valuable resources. Students plan to request Commissioners consider offering curbside recycling and the possibility of more recycling drop-sites. 

In order to present at the meeting, students submitted their request in writing, as would any citizen who had an item of business. Students learned last week their presentation request was accepted. 

Brunswick County Commissioner meetings are held in the  David R. Sandifer Administration Building, at the Brunswick County Government Center.  Meetings begin at 6:00 p.m.

For more information contact Principal Kathy Owens at 910-253-6516 or owek@bcswan.net. 

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WECT) – The last class of North Carolina Teaching Fellows hit the road this week for the annual Discovery Bus Tour.

The North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program was established in 1986 to provide high school seniors who wanted to enter the teaching profession a scholarship/loan to make their dreams reality. Students repay the debt through service in a North Carolina public school system. The program, recognized as the most ambitious teacher recruitment program in the nation, was eliminated through state budget cuts last year.

The Discovery Bus Tour allows all rising sophomore Fellows the opportunity to explore North Carolina School systems from the mountains to coast. Bus 2, which visited Brunswick County on Monday, started its journey at East Carolina University and will end the trip Friday at Western Carolina University.

Fellows were greeted in Brunswick County by Board of Education Chairwoman Shirley Babson and Vice-Chairwoman Catherine Cooke. Joyce Beatty, Executive Director of Student Services, coordinated the tour stop which included visits to Supply Elementary, West Brunswick High School, and the Ingram Planetarium.