Please send best wishes to four Maryville College students, the MC-EPA-EE Fellows, as they travel to Lenoir City Intermediate School (LCIS) on Thursday 2 March, to provide a community environmental education activity to help grade school students and their families at that school’s STEAM Family Day!   

This is the second Community Environmental Education (CEE) event that is part of the US Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Education (EPA-EE) grant Maryville College was awarded in fall 2022.  Keep Blount Beautiful is participating in this grant by serving as an advisor.  The Fellows and our “Out of the Box Sustainability” project partners remind you that bees are under tremendous stress, but are vital parts of the ecosystem as the main pollinators for local plants, crops, and flowers.   As the weather gets warmer, plant native plants and flowers – to help bees and other local species ‘bee’ happy!