CAMP HILL — The Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation will hold a livestream presentation on Monday, at 6:30 p.m. to listen to the three winning songs and honor the original songwriters who won the 2021 Environmental Rights Amendment Song Contest.

Throughout the year, the foundation has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Environmental Rights Amendment to Pa.’s Constitution. The amendment was the theme of the first-ever song contest, this year’s photo contest and special monthly writing incentives.

“Music is a medium that connects people and transcends time much like the (amendment) which was designed to give citizens a voice and created with future generations in mind,” stated Brad Mallory, the foundation’s board chair, who will provide opening remarks for the awards presentation. “Hosting a song contest seemed like the perfect way to celebrate such an important milestone.”

The virtual presentation will be livestreaming from the Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation’s Facebook page at facebook.com/PennsylvaniaParksAndForests

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Through their original songs, the three awardees expressed the importance of the amendment, how it empowers citizens with rights to healthy natural resources and, at the same time, charges us all with their stewardship.

Viewers will meet Grand Prize winner, Ed Holcomb, and hear his song, The Amendment, with harmonica accompaniment; Youth Entry winner Brooke Buser playing her song, Pick Up Trash, on her ukulele; and President’s Choice winner Debra Wolf Goldstein, with a powerful voice singing her song entitled, People Have the Right.