**Healthy Kids 2006 Indoor Air Quality Heroes**

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**Healthy Kids 2006 Indoor Air Quality Heroes**

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- February 27, 2006

Contact: Ellie Goldberg, www.healthy-kids.info

healthykids@... (617) 965-9637

**Healthy Kids 2006 Indoor Air Quality Heroes**

Every year to mark the anniversary of the March 18, 1937 Texas School

Explosion, I salute Indoor Air Quality Heroes whose inspirational

leadership protects children from school hazards and unhealthy school

conditions. As many safety champions know, it often takes enormous

persistence and courage to take leadership for safety in schools and

overcome indifference to a wide range of health and safety problems.

My 2006 Healthy Schools Heroes are Westborough (MA) School Committee

member Bruce Tretter and parent Kathy King. Tretter and King have

transformed the Westborough Public Schools into a unique model of

district-wide responsibility, responsiveness and commitment to health

and safety.

Tretter and King prioritize safety and health, ignored for many years

in Westborough, and overlooked when the burgeoning oil-rich East

Texas boomtown built its new state-of-the-art school.

Today, 69 years after the gas explosion that killed more than three

hundred students, teachers and visitors in a Texas school, its story

should be part of our national legacy. Let's dedicate March 18 as a

national day to bring the " Lessons of the 1937 Texas School Explosion "

to our nation's schools and to celebrate the heroes whose leadership

saves children's lives.

Read more about Tretter and King and their successful Westborough

Public Schools IAQ program online. See **Healthy Kids 2006 Indoor Air

Quality Heroes** in the Resources section at www.healthy-kids.info

Also see " Lessons of the 1937 Texas School Explosion " and

" Strengthening Your School's Response to Explosives " in the Resources

section at www.healthy-kids.info

Read more about the March 18, 1937 Texas School Explosion online.

LINK: http://www.nlse.org

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Ellie Goldberg, M.Ed. healthykids@... (617) 965-9637

Healthy Kids: The Key to Basics www.healthy-kids.info