Improve Your Eco Education at Sunset Hills Earth Day Event

The Green Objectives for Sunset Hills Committee is busy preparing for its free Earth Day event on April 14.

The event features local green vendors and children’s activities. Residents will have the opportunity to recycle clothes, shoes, Christmas lights, batteries, glass, and other items.

With the help of the Crestwood-Sunset Hills Rotary Club, they’re introducing their first 5k sponsor run to bring clean water to all parts of the world. Global Run 4 Water is organized by local Rotary clubs. Funds raised go toward Matching Grant (MG) and Global Grant (GG) clean water and sanitation projects, according to the project website. A plant exchange sponsored by the Sunset Hills Garden Club is scheduled afterward at the Sunset Hills Community Center.

This year's vendors include Abandoned Paws Rescue, Ameren Pure Power, Audobon Society, Baby Care Diaper Service, Blue Brick Construction, Brightergy, Bring Nature Home, Chipotle, Crestwood-Sunset Hills Rotary Club, Eastern Missouri Beekeepers, Great Rivers Greenway, Habitat for Humanity's Re-Store, Ice Cream Cakes, Interact Rotary Club, Missouri Department of Conservation, Missouri Wildlife, Open Space Council, Pets in the City, Shoeman, Solar Car Races, South County Tech Greenhouses, Sprint, St. Louis Composting, St. Louis Health Equipment Lending Program, Subdivision Display by Littlefield Architecture, Sunset Hills-Crestwood Patch, Sunset Hills Community Center, Sunset Hills Conservation Society, Sunset Hills Garden Club, Sunset Hills Park & Recreation, The Living Wall Company and Wine Barrel.

The event was moved to avoid competing with the St. Louis Earth Day Festival in Forest Park on April 20, according to event organizer Dee Baebler.