Share The Bronze Or Sabotage With Silver

Who will take away this year’s Penny Drive title? Read more to find out what this playful competition offers our local community.

This year the Environmental Club has welcomed and worked diligently to organize a friendly yet highly competitive Penny Drive for all classes to participate.

“Each class has a container, pennies are positive points and silver and dollars are negative points,” explained Ms. Kelly Safford, Environmental Club moderator.

Students are encouraged to put pennies into their class container and “sabotage” other classes by inserting silver coins and paper money into their container.  Sabotage is looked as negative points and pennies are considered positive points. The class with the most positive points wins.

“The money goes to the Cosumnes River Preserver, [which] is a big preserve south of Elk Grove,” Ms Safford says. “The Cosumnes River is the last major river that is not dam flowing into the central valley.”

“The Cosumnes River is the only river that is allowed to come out of the mountains and is able to hit this lowland and drop all kinds of sediments and deposit all kinds of good minerals and re-nourish the soil [that] is partly the reason why we have such good soil.”

Not only is it a great sight for soil to become more plentiful but it also a really important place for all migrating birds, fish and plants.

Furthermore, Ms. Safford, who also teaches Calculus, Algebra, and Honors Math Analysis at CB, explains that the proceeds go to this river to purchase more land because “the biggest thing is to protect more land and provide upkeep and maintenance.”

Ms. Safford, is the founder of the Penny Drive at CB, has lead the penny drive about seven times now. Due to her background and relentless efforts with the Environmental Club, she was thrilled when she along with club members decided to incorporate a friendly competition with a way to help out the environment at the same time.

With a lot of intense research she and club decided that “going local was the best [decision].”

Please support generously and sabotage fearlessly in order to make this year’s penny drive a success.