The Roanoke Valley Resource Authority was an awesome host to The Super Heroes on Tuesday. We drove out to Smith Gap Landfill first and saw where Roanoke City, Roanoke County, and Vinton's trash ends up. Kids were amazed when they saw a train car filled with trash lifted and tipped over. We dump an average of 10 train cars EACH DAY into our landfill!!!! The Super Heroes were sad to see so many recyclable items go into the landfill. Because of the mud we were unable to drive up to the actual landfill, but kids loved seeing the amazing hydrolic lift, dump trucks, and other heavy machinery.
After Smith Gap we drove downtown to the Roanoke City Transfer Station where we were able to see train cars filled with trash, free mulch being ground, and people dropping off trash.
If you are interested in visiting the Resource Authority or have any sanitation questions go to: http://www.rvra.net/. We were very impressed with how welcoming they were.
We were starving after our big morning!!! We drove speedy quick to Alejandro's at Hollins and had a wonderful lunch. Students must have been practicing restaurant manners at home last week. Lena had a few patrons stop her on the way out and ask what school we were from. They were amazed at the kids' great behavior. Thank you to Josiah's parents, Lisa and Manuel, for having us.
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Thanks, we loved having all the kids for lunch. The thank you cards they made were too precious!! We are trying to figure out how to frame them at the restaurant.
ReplyDelete....By the way, Mr. Nucamendi's name is Moises (not Manuel) :)