Tuesday, April 23, 2013

2013 Great American Spring Cleanup Day Scheduled for April 27


Keep Santa Fe Beautiful, Make a Difference, and Volunteer

Keep Santa Fe Beautiful, Inc. and the City of Santa Fe are sponsoring the 29th annual 2013 Great American Cleanup on Saturday, April 27. Volunteers are asked to meet at the Antonio C. Roybal building located at 1142 Siler Road, from 7 to 9 a.m., to pick up bags, work gloves, and T-shirts. Volunteers are needed and will be assigned to areas to pick up litter or cleanup in neighborhoods; school groups also can pick up litter in their neighborhood or on their school campus.

City Environmental Services and Parks Division crews will pick up the trash for disposal. Afterward, beginning about noon, volunteers are invited to a picnic at the Nancy Rodriguez Center, 1 Prairie Loop, to thank volunteers who participate in the community event. Food is being donated by several different local restaurants.

Keep Santa Fe Beautiful, Inc. is a nonprofit volunteer program dedicated to environmental education, litter awareness and prevention, and beautification programs. Keep Santa Fe Beautiful Inc. and the City of Santa Fe also sponsor Trek for Trash Fall Cleanup days, the Adopt-a-Median program to landscape city street medians, the annual Keep Santa Fe Beautiful Golf Classic, the Keep America Beautiful Waste-in-Place program in local schools and the Otra Vez Trash to Treasures program. For more information visit Keep Santa Fe Beautiful at http://www.keepsantafebeautiful.org/ and on Facebook or call 505-955-2215.

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