Sharon Group Planning Earth Day Event

Energy efficiency awareness activities are eyed for Sharon's center of town later this month as an Earth Day event.

The new Sustainable Sharon Coalition proposes sponsoring the April 22 program, coalition member Nancy Fyler told Town Administrator Benjamin Puritz in a memo Tuesday.

Selectmen Chairman Richard Powell said Tuesday night the event "fits in well with Sharon." Still, there might be "possibly a better location," he said.

Selectmen directed Puritz to get more details.

The coalition is "a group of citizens working towards a vision of Sharon as a leading sustainable community. To this end we work with neighbors, elected officials, and town staff to promote measures that conserve and sustain our community's use of energy, water, land, transit, and food in order to take part in the global effort to protect our planet," according to its website. The group's first forum was Feb. 6 in the Cynthia B. Fox Community Room.

The coalition wants to offer activities and entertainment from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 22, according to the proposal Fyler provided Puritz. Rain would cancel the event.

Two locations, both in Sharon center, are being considered, the proposal says.

So far, 18 attendees would participate. The Energy Advisory Committee would review Sharon's energy use, and YCOMP would sell compost bins, for example.

The Mighty Silverbacks, a local five-member rock 'n' roll band, would perform on a flat bed truck, the proposal says. Two other local bands are in the works.