On your next shopping trip to the Oxford Meijer, be sure to choose paper when offered the choice between paper and plastic bags.
You just might get one beautified by a Clear Lake or Leonard Elementary student.
The kids recently decorated 715 paper shopping bags as a way to raise environmental awareness.
The bags are being distributed at Meijer in the hopes that they will be reused and help everyone remember that every day should be Earth Day.
Executive Energy Services, based in Fair Haven, coordinated the project. The company is working with Oxford Community Schools to develop energy awareness.