Congratulations to Northside Intermediate School for recycling the most telephone books in the 2011 phone book recycling drive, Project Redirectory. The students at Northside recycled a total of 3581 books with Mrs. Cook's 5th grade class recycling the most books. In an assembly on January 27, principal Mike McKee was presented with a check for the school by AT&T representative Jody Washington. Ms. Washington also presented checks to 2nd place winner, Morris Avenue Intermediate School (2803 books) and 3rd place winner, Jeter Primary School (2101 books). The total number of books recycled by the Opelika City Schools was 12,481. Project Redirectory is sponsored annually by AT&T, The Opelika City Schools, Keep Opelika Beautiful and The City of Opelika Solid Waste Division.

Pictured with Mrs. Cook's 5th grade class are: (from bottom to top on left side) Jody Washington, AT&T; Cindy Mirarchi, Morris Avenue KOB liaison; Laura Lambert, Jeter Primary KOB liaison; Jeannie Miller, Jeter Primary Principal; Tipi Miller, KOB Director; Melissa Cook, 5th grade teacher; Michael Dowdell, City of Opelika Solid Waste Department and (far right) Lori Shaw, Northside KOB liaison; Mike McKee, Northside principal and Kenneth Burton, OCS Assistant Superintendent.