Holland students urged to safeguard environment

Dr Carey Wallace, executive director of the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF), has charged students of Holland High School to do their part in safeguarding the environment.

"You students have a responsibility that is bigger than yourselves, because you are trying to change a pattern of behaviour that's been habitual over generations and here you are now, the enlightened ones, needing to influence your own parents, your own community to change their habits and start practising the new habit," Dr Wallace said.

He was speaking at the official opening of a computer room last Tuesday furnished with 27 laptops and other computer equipment valued at $2.5 million. The computer room has also been outfitted with a projector and screen with surround-sound technology.

Dr Wallace challenged the high-school students, who collectively earned the reward by placing first in the recent TEF-sponsored Sustainable Destination Alliance of the Americas recycling competition in the Falmouth area, to become ambassadors for recycling.

"It is in your interest to make sure you are ambassadors for that change, so I charge you to think beyond just the school, the competition and in your own communities, and try to influence the people around you," Dr Wallace said.