Tag Archives: Cool Kids

Special Surfers: Summer Stoke for Special People

August 25, 2017Company NewsCool KidsBulletin Bottle

Special Surfers’ founder, Nanci Boutet, with Jennifer Christensen and kids

On the third Tuesday in June, July, and August, a huge group of amazing people from all over New England—and beyond–converge on Gooches Beach in Kennebunkport, Maine to share in a magical evening of surfing, support, and love with Special Surfers.

Special Surfers is a nonprofit that provides an opportunity for kids and young adults with special needs (emotional, mental, or physical) to surf in the summer. There is no cost to participants or their families, and all equipment and instruction is provided.

Bulletin Brands staff member Jennifer Christensen has been participating in the event with her son, Jack, since 2012. Jack has Down syndrome, and Special Surfers is a highlight of his summer. While there are many people with Down syndrome surfing, there are literally hundreds of special surfers with many different types of disabilities that participate. Continue reading →

Five Unique Uses for Wholesale Water Bottles

December 19, 2016Reusable Water Bottle TipsCool Kids, SchoolsBulletin Bottle

Learn about unique uses for wholesale water bottles!

Did you know that wholesale water bottles actually have the power to change your life in ways you might not have imagined?

It’s true. We’ve asked our country’s future (aka employee offspring) for their ideas on how our reusable water bottles can be used in ways that adults may not have previously considered. And boy did they have some great ideas!

We suggest heeding the advice of our special contributors, and trying out some of these oft overlooked uses for water bottles. You also may use them at your discretion for ROI justification on your custom bottle project: Continue reading →

College Student’s Nonprofit: Buy a Water Bottle, Give a Water Bottle

September 11, 2015Plastics NewsCool KidsBulletin Bottle

When Sasha Meyer was a high school senior in Southern California, she worked at a homeless shelter. The shelter was unable to provide enough water bottles to satisfy the needs of its clients, so Sasha decided to help.

She got plastic water bottles, wrote kind quotes and messages on them, and distributed them on her own.

Sasha wanted to continue her project when she left for college at the University of Notre Dame, so when she was a freshman she presented the idea to the University’s social impact club. They approved it, and her nonprofit organization, The Heartening, was born. Continue reading →

Massachusetts Teens Propose Plastic Water Bottle Ban

February 21, 2013Plastic Bottle Bans, Plastics NewsCool KidsBulletin Bottle

Every April at Arlington High School in Massachuestts, students in an environmental club talk to freshmen about the harmful effects of plastic water bottles. The talk is part of Earth Day activities at the school, and also includes a tap-versus-bottled water taste test (The students claim that 9 out of 10 kids prefer tap water).Now three classmates in that club are fighting back against single-use plastic water bottles throughout their town.

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Wyatt Workman: Saving the Seas from the Trash Monster

October 30, 2012Plastics NewsCool KidsBulletin Bottle

When Wyatt Workman was seven years old, he set out to save the sea. Literally. You see, Wyatt loves the ocean, and was very upset to learn about all of the trash destroying its inhabitants. Wyatt also loves clay. And that’s how an idea was born.

Wyatt made a Claymation movie, Save the Sea from the Trash Monster!, about a Trash Monster who is taking over the ocean, but the sea animals fight back. Watch the movie and see what happens:

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