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Sister Diane Bauknecht was energized by an Earth Fair activity focused on reusing shredded paper (which is not recyclable in most jurisdictions). She said, “Working in schools and offices over many decades, I have used innumerable reams of paper.  Though I have always been grateful to the trees that provided my mode of communication, and I have always been one to save and recycle paper, I have never deliberately tried to relieve trees of their sacrifice to supply me with paper. That changed at the CSA celebration on Earth Day on April 26 when I made paper, thanks to the pulp and teaching offered by Dena Rose Kryzanowski and Dusty Krikau, reliable CSA employees who love Mother Earth! The papermaking experience at the Earth Fair and the continued experimentation with pressing repurposed shredded paper into raw paper has been fun beyond my expectation.  And, sometimes, I think I hear a tree thank me!”

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This article appears in the May Issue of Reflections and Connections

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