Sauvola wins Environmental Educators Formal Educator of the Year award

New Richmond High School agriscience teacher Rachel Sauvola has been named the 2017 Wisconsin Association of Environmental Educators Formal Educator of the Year and will be attending a banquet on April 22 in Madison to receive her award.

“Basically, it is for community involvement; it is for everything that we do that is environmental education,” Sauvola said. “It is also the power of infusing that into all the different content areas within the agricultural umbrella...

...“You always need to have the environment at the forefront in agriculture. And you need to make sure that you are taking care of things properly and teaching others to do that same.”