To the Editor:

The environment is the most important part of our community.

We think that we should start a program called Green.  In the program, we would clean up the environment.

For example, we would pick up garbage, plant trees, and help build stuff.  We could also raise money to put up signs that prevent people from harming certain animals and their environments.

Mollie Egan
Ashlyn Hanley

Editor’s note: The letter writers are fifth-graders at Berne-Knox-Westerlo and are members of Junior Troop 1056, led by Tami Hanley and Carrie McDermott. They are working on their "Inside Government" badge for which the girls need to write on a topic of interest to them that deals with their community in some way.