“Healthy Planet, Healthy You!” is the theme for the 14th Annual Earth Day Expo Saturday at Monroe County Community College.
The free family-friendly event will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Gerald Welch Health Education Building at the north end of the campus, 1555 S. Raisinville Rd.
More than 50 booths and exhibitors will offer activities, presentations and displays for children and adults.
Topics will include sustainability, recycling, composting, gardening, energy efficiency, alternative energy, green living and personal health and wellness.
Prize drawings will be held for a La-Z-Boy chair, one-year membership to the Monroe Family YMCA, kids’ bicycles and other prizes.
Also featured will be the River Raisin Institute’s Climate Literacy school project — “Scaled Wings at Work” — that focuses on butterflies as pollinators.
Children from 16 area classrooms are creating larger-than-life butterfly sculptures made with recycled and re-used materials for display, said Dan Rock, Recycling and Green Community Program coordinator for the county.
Three one-kilometer Fun Runs are planned in conjunction with RunHip, a Monroe fitness business. Those who participate are entered in a drawing to win a $25 gift card from the business, Rock said. More information is included on the Run Hip website, www.runhip.com. There is no entry fee and participants can register Saturday.
“We’re having three of the same runs with a route we’ve set up all around campus,” Rock said.
Expo sponsors are the County of Monroe; Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary; River Raisin Institute; Monroe Family YMCA; Monroe County Library System, DTE Energy Foundation; DTE Energy, and La-Z-Boy Incorporated.
For more information on recycling and green community programs, visit www.greenmonroecounty.com or contact Rock at 734-240-7909 or e-mail Dan_Rock@monroemi.org.