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The committee is welcoming entrees from students during National Bullying Prevention Month addressing this year's theme: “What it Means to Be an UPstander.”
Gift certificates will be awarded to winning groups of students in each of three grade categories -- second through fifth grade; sixth through eighth grade; and ninth through twelfth grade.
Entrees must be submitted to the Ridgefield Public Library or the main offices of schools by Oct. 30. Winners will be notified in time for the Nov. 23 mayor and council meeting.
Participants can write essays, or create posters, or, in some cases, create public service announcement videos.
“Kids aren’t spending time outside and getting out that energy. It’s following people into their homes,” said committee member Lauren Larkin.
A lifelong borough resident, Larkin raised two sons through the local system. She joined the committee two years ago and has served as chairperson for the past year and a half.
Also on the committee: John Corviello, principal of Slocum Skewes Elementary School, Mayor Anthony Suarez and Andrew Anderson, a former wrestler and town resident who works on his own anti-bullying projects.
“If we can help one person through all of the years feel better, then we’ve done our job,” Larkin said.
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