America Recycles 2005 Grand Prize: 2006 Ford Escape Hybrid SUV - electric/gas vehicle(above) to be awarded after December 15, 2005.

ARD 2005 awarded five Trek bicycles made with recycled aluminum frames to youth who completed pledge cards during last year's America Recycles Day. Two of the winners were Zachary Jahn (above) and Ally Abbot (below).

November 15 will be here before we know it, marking yet another America Recycles Day. Posters asking “Do You Believe in Reincarnation?” and touting “It’s Always Better the Second Time Around” are being distributed to county contacts, as well as recycled pencils that read “I Used To Be a Newspaper.” Encourage everyone you know to make his or her pledge to recycle at www.americarecyclesday.org. The Adult Grand Prize is a Ford Escape Hybrid and the Youth Grand Prizes are five recycled aluminum Trek bicycles.

More than 200,000 pledges were entered in the drawing last year. Last year’s ARD Grand Prize Hybrid Winner was Nancy Mawra, from Pawleys Island, South Carolina. She was encouraged to complete the pledge card by her eight-year-old triplets. ARD also awarded five Trek bicycles made with recycled aluminum

frames to youth who completed pledge cards: Ally Abbott of Fort Mill, South Carolina; Jenelle Kaminski of Blasdell, New York; Zachary Jahn of Pleasant Ridge, Michigan; Bennie Hyatt of Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Joe Gaffney of Meridian, Idaho.