Used shoe drive a big success!

For the past month or so, the EIC has been collecting shoes at Aragon, Borel Middle School, and Bayside Elementary School for both donation and recycling. Useable shoes would go to St. Vincent de Paul Society, and beyond useable sneakers would be sent to Nike for recycling in its NikeGrind program.

Well, under the more than adequate lea

dership of Julia Borden, a junior at Aragon and EIC and Recycling Club member,

 the drive went off expertly. We had posters made and posted all around downtown San Mateo and the schools, emails sent, and a Fa

cebook event created. It all culminated last Saturday with a five-hour drive in the school parking lot, where over 500 pairs of shoes were collected altogether. That puts the total for the whole drive at over 700 pairs!

If you missed it, you can donate any usable shoes to Goodwill, Samaritan House, St. Vincent de Paul, or the like. You can recycle any used sneakers at most running stor

es and all Niketown locations.