Gala Funds Support Eco-Education

Money raised as part of the Red Bank Education Foundation’s held earlier this season is already being put to good use.

At the Red Bank Board of Education meeting Tuesday night, board President Ann Roseman said the gala, in which participants purchased a ticket in exchange for a piece of original art, raised more than $7,300 to help promote eco-education at the Red Bank Primary School.

After a recent request was put in by officials to help fund a couple of projects on the site of the school, Roseman said the education foundation set about dispersing the funds it had just raised.

Some of the funds will be used to stock a newly constructed greenhouse that was built over the summer. Other funds will be used to construct a human sundial the school has planned. Not entirely composed of human, the time piece will be composed of boulders with a human, in most cases a willing child, serving as the dial’s gnomon.

The funds are being used by Swimming River Discoveries, an organization dedicated to emphasizing the creation and maintenance of learning areas for students at the primary school’s roughly 17 acres of wetlands.