[ADEQ Media] ADEQ Director Steve Owens Announces Recycling Scholarship Winners

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ADEQ Director Steve Owens Announces Recycling Scholarship Winners

PHOENIX (April 22, 2008) - Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Director Steve Owens today announced that ADEQ has awarded scholarships
of $1,000 each under the department's Recycling Scholarship Program to
10 Arizona high school seniors throughout the state:

The winners and the schools they attend are:

Linda Baez, Pueblo Magnet High School, Tucson
Melanie Napier, Salome High School, Salome
Katie Radosevic, Verde Valley School, Sedona
Kathryn Ross, Kingman High School, Kingman
Mia Spencer, Millennium High School, Goodyear
Dalton Sterner, Desert Mountain High School, Scottsdale
Dustin Teague, Benson High School, Benson
Maria Tedesco, Centennial High School, Peoria
Leslie Kay Tobara, Northern Arizona Academy, Taylor
Lauren Ashley Wilson, Safford High School, Safford

Each of these students will receive a $1,000 scholarship to be used for
expenses at a college or university in Arizona. The scholarship
recipients were selected by ADEQ based on the proposals they submitted
to ADEQ outlining a waste reduction or recycling project in their school
or community that they have implemented during this month.

"The purpose of this innovative scholarship program is to encourage
Arizona students to think about ways to protect the environment while
helping them meet the escalating costs of college," Director Owens said.
"These high school seniors came up with some terrific ideas for
recycling projects."

Owens said ADEQ developed the scholarship program to encourage school
recycling activities throughout the state. The scholarship program is
funded by the ADEQ Recycling Grant Program.

Information about the scholarships is available at the following
address: http://www.azdeq.gov/environ/waste/solid/program.html

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News media interested in additional information on this or any other
topic concerning the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality should
contact the Office of Communications at (602) 771-2215 or via email at
communications@azdeq.gov.

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