Gorrie Elementary School teacher Annie Melius wants her fifth-graders to get serious about conservation. So she spurred them to think of ways to save energy with plans for Earth Day. "I'm going to paddle to work and back in my kayak," she wrote on the whiteboard in her classroom. Students planned to not turn on TVs, only use bicycles for transportation, take cold showers (not showering was not an option, she told them.) When the kids saw the red kayak on the bicycle rack this morning they said "You really did it!" Melius paddled about 4 miles from her home to work, which took about an hour and a half.
that's so great! what city was this?
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gorrie is the oldest elementary school in tampa, and it's between downtown and hyde park about 5 or 6 blocks off bayshore. she put the kayak in at rivercrest park, which is about half a mile from my house, and then the hillsborough river runs from way up north, through my 'hood, and bisects downtown until it hits the old tampa bay.