RMLD awards $2000 grant to Joshua Eaton School

Reading, MA, June 23, 2008:  Reading Municipal Light Department General Manager Vinnie Cameron presents a $2,000 RMLD energy efficient grant to Joshua Eaton School Principal Patricia deGaravilla and Third Grade Teacher Debi Kinton at the June RMLD Board meeting at 230 Ash Street in Reading.  Joshua Eaton students were successful in achieving the highest percentage of pledges in Reading, encouraging 59 families to change 806 standard light bulbs to compact fluorescent bulbs, saving 227,292 kWh of energy, saving $21,138 and preventing 329,654 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.  Reading, North Reading, Wilmington and Lynnfield elementary schools teamed with RMLD to support Energy Star’s Change a Light, Change the World campaign. Proactively encouraging energy conservation are front row, l-r, RMLD Board Vice Chair Mary Ellen O’Neill, Kinton, deGaravilla, Cameron and RMLD Board Commissioner Ellen Kearns; back row, l-r, RMLD Board Chair Richard Hahn and RMLD Board Secretary Robert Soli.