Brooke students accepted challenge to recycle

A TEAM EFFORT — Students and staff at Brooke Middle School, including its cafeteria workers, teamed with Mon Power, a FirstEnergy company, to collect more than 1,000 pounds of recyclable plastic and have received a bench made with recyclable plastic by NexTrex Recycling. Seen with the bench are, from left, seated, Kameron Miller-Hickey of FirstEnergy and Principal Jennifer Sisinni and standing: Edenn Nickoles, Susan Cunningham, Dana Delaney, Paula Mahan, Carolyn Wilson and Dana Johnson and Jessica Shaffer of FirstEnergy. -- Warren Scott

WELLSBURG — With the help of many, students at Brooke Middle School worked to collect hundreds of pounds of recyclable plastic and got to see how such material can be put to new use.

Dana Johnson, a math teacher at the school, said with support from the G