Healthy Kids 2006 Indoor Air Quality Heroes

February 28, 2006

From: HEALTHY KIDS: THE KEY TO BASICS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- February 27, 2006

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

healthykids@...

**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

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

School's Response to Explosives " in the Resources section at

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

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Ellie Goldberg, M.Ed. healthykids@...

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

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