The Shaler Area High School Sustainability classes and club are collecting bottle caps that will be used to make benches and other attributes for Rainbow Raccoon Park in Millvale.
This eco-friendly park is a project of the Millvale Community Development Corporation. The Shaler Area Sustainability Classes and club have helped with many aspects of the park as it takes shape, including installing rain gardens and signage. They hope to collect 400 pounds of caps and lids to meet their goal by mid April 2025. They estimate that they have around 200 pounds of caps and lids to date. They are now enlisting the help of the wider community to reach their goal. Learn more about these driven teens and the many ways they advocate for the environment and enrich their neighborhoods.
The idea of a raccoon-themed park came from kids within Millvale, where the park will be located, who were surveyed by the Millvale CDC. The animal they chose was the raccoon, an unconventional choice, but the perfect cuddly mascot for the community park. The Millvale Community Development Corporation is hiring a group of artists to create a raccoon sculpture for the park as well as work on murals. They hope to install the raccoon sculpture sometime in May.
“This park means a new open space for children to be able to play and express themselves freely. It gives new color to an area that wasn’t too colorful before, and the idea that high school students are helping to work on it gives us a different experience that most of us have never experienced before,” senior Margarite Boggs, a member of the Sustainability Club, said.
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