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Composting at UNBC

Composting at UNBC began as
a discussion between a few
concerned people in the
PGPIRG (Public Interest
Research Group) office in
October 1995. Looking at the
alternatives to deal with wastes
produced by their university, it
was decided that a small-scale
composting program could be
easily implemented, and would
provide a valuable lesson for
students to learn - to take
responsibility for our
environment.

In cooperation with REAPS, a
formal proposal was submitted
and approved by the President’s
Council at UNBC, and two
Environmental Youth Team
grants, numerous donations,

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and many volunteer hours built

the now functioning
composting site beside the
university residences.

Presently, one staff member
and a myriad of volunteers
daily collect organic wastes
from the cafeteria kitchen and
maintain the site; grounds
maintenance workers collect
and deliver piles of leaves and
grass clippings to the site.
Beginning the week of
November 25th, students in the

Residences will begin
contributing their
compostables.

As in most programs which ask
people to take time to
contribute to the solutions, it
has taken alot of time, patience

by Stephanie Capyk

and openness to learn from the
setbacks. Today, with most of
the logistics of getting the
wastes to the site to rot in
peace n place, the Composting
Group has turned its focus
towards education and plans
for the future. After the
holiday break, workshops for
students on composting will be
offered, a website on the
project will be set up, an
informational kit for groups
who are interested in initiating
composting in smaller
institutions (colleges, day care
centres, community
centres....) is being compiled,
and dreams of a beautiful,
organic garden at the site are
carrying us through the
winter!

CATS ON

by Jamie Colins —

The snow falls on the decrepit
trees as the frigid air lingers
around the mark of -4, the
ground is covered with a thick
carpet of ice from the remnants
of slushy snow spewed upon
the hibernating countryside.
Tiny sinew-like cats roam the
area abandoned by their
families, desperate for
nourishment and shelter, those
with conscience on this campus
feel their pain but are reluctant
to aid the poor and unfortunate
creatures. Like the decrepit
trees under a thickening blanket
of snow in this frigid climate
the tiny cats are left to their
fate. Food for a fox? Or even
an easy mark for a hungry
radial tire barreling down the
road on the way back from the
bar. Like the abandoned cats,
there are those who wander the
hallways around the school in
a world equally as frigid and
hostile as the climate on the
other side of the windows. To
these people, the sunshine that
makes the outside climate
bearable to the rest of us never
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stagnant depression that
pelages every second of their
existence. Once again those
with concience watch as the
lonely ones wander from class
to class, with an expression of
pity mixed with a slight
sparkle of contempt. To aid
these poor lost souls is to
create a bond in which the
giver of confort becomes the
life source of the lonely one
that they have taken pity upon.
For to feed a hungry cat is to
gain a constant companion that
will follow on your heels from
that moment onward.

When next you encounter the
abandoned creatures of the
campus remember that even
though you may not be the one
with the energy and time to
comfort those living under the
decrepit trees and frigid
climate, not all things should
be left to fate, and not every
being is beyond deliverance.

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