WABI Covers Northern Maine Children’s Water Festival
WABI (Channel 5) reported on the 2014 Northern Maine Children’s Water Festival held at the University of Maine. About 650 fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade students from 13 area schools spent the day at the New Balance Field House learning about clean water, wetland ecosystems and the importance of stewarding Maine’s most rapidly renewable resource. Ruth Hallsworth, the strategic program manager for the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at UMaine, called the event a “real fun day,” with lots of interactive activities for children to learn while having fun. “We’re very lucky in Maine. We have a lot of water here, but we still need to protect it,” Hallsworth said.