Recipient chosen for Charlie Kontos Environmental Activist Award; Versailles building collects food for neighbors in need | Journal Entries
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
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Recipient chosen for Charlie Kontos Environmental Activist Award; Versailles building collects food for neighbors in need | Journal Entries
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Inaugural recipient chosen for 2020 Charlie Kontos Environmental Activist Award
A Bergen County high school student has been chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Charlie Kontos Environmental Activist Award, named for a naturalist and Stevens Institute of Technology graduate who died in 2010 at age 33. Connor Cunningham, a senior at Glen Rock High School, was chosen for founding and working with the non-profit Friends of New Jersey Ponds group. Through it, he rid Duck Pond in his hometown of algae, according to retired Stevens professor Silvio Laccetti of Fairview, whose Laccetti Foundation is bestowing the award.