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HCC to hold Earth Day celebration

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Haywood Community College’s fifth-annual Earth Day Celebration will focus on renewable energies, clean transportation and getting in touch with your surroundings and will run from 10:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. April 24.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at 12:30 p.m. to celebrate Haywood County’s first and only public electric vehicle charging station. In addition, the current electric vehicles on the market will be on display, including the Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf and the just released Mitsubishi i-MiEV, which will be available for a test drive.

A nature walk and stream cleanup will be held at 1:30 p.m. There will also be several speakers throughout the day covering topics

www.haywood.edu/sustainability or 828.565.4033.

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