Kids compete in toxic-free games to raise awareness
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20120729/ARTICLES/120729630
"While America's athletes compete for gold in London, a handful of area children gathered near a picnic shelter at Halyburton Park Sunday to participate in a different sort of Olympics: the toxic-free kind.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20120729/ARTICLES/120729630
"While America's athletes compete for gold in London, a handful of area children gathered near a picnic shelter at Halyburton Park Sunday to participate in a different sort of Olympics: the toxic-free kind.
"We're trying to raise awareness about how many products we have in our homes with toxic chemicals in them," said Felicia Willems, the North Carolina toxics reform campaign assistant with MomsRising, a non-profit organization with about 28,000 members across the Tar Heel State. "There's a ton of chemicals in everything we buy – furniture, toys, even the bottles our kids drink from."
To call attention to the issue, MomsRising is holding a series of events across the state. At Sunday's event – the second of four – kids competed in activities, including throwing rubber bath toys into a large blue bucket filled with water (the "Toxic Tub Toy Toss") to using hula hoops as jump ropes while racing from one line to another (the "Jumping Through Hoops Race")."
