Store honored

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Paradis’ Shop’n Save in Houlton was recently certified by the Department of Environmental Protection as Environmental Leaders. The Environmental Leader program is a self-guided process offered by the department as part of its pollution prevention efforts that encourages lodging facilities, restaurants, and grocers to implement selected improvement initiatives from those offered in the department-developed workbook to achieve points towards certification. Grocers earn points for practices such as adopting and posting an environmental policy, selling a percentage of local and/or organic foods, installing energy-efficient refrigeration equipment, having a posted anti-idle policy in delivery bays and educating patrons about the store’s green initiatives. The store received a banner for its efforts. Taking part are, from left, Randall Johnson, Nick Archer, Jeanne Currie, Galen Flewelling, Ginny McCain, Nikki Hughes, Jody Moulton, Lisa LaClaire and David Belyea.