We recently launched the WeFutureCycle recycling program in the Ben Turner Elementary school in Mount Vernon. This school has so impressed me with its outstanding lunchroom monitors.

Part of the recycling program is also to teach the kids to only take what they need, which means to not grab a stack of napkins at a time, or a whole handful of ketchup pouches.

Making the right choices is a life lesson and lunch monitor Shantale Hughes is reinforcing that with her (very cute) charges. After her students have gotten their lunch, she helps them open their milk or other things and when she notices them having grabbed more pouches than needed, she collects them, so they do not become untouched garbage.

It takes a village to raise a child and Ms Hughes is clearly a very important part of the Ben Turner village. Thank you for going the extra mile.