Clean Up Akron Week
Contact: Melissa Adams,
Keep Akron
Beautiful
330-375-2116 or adamsme@ci.akron.oh.us
Green
Starts With Akron
Clean Up Akron Week 2009/Great American CleanupTM
Akron-Ohio (March 2, 2009) - Americans now more than ever want to
do their part to improve not only their own community but our planet as well.
Keep Akron Beautiful is reminding Akron
residents that Green Starts Here,
with each volunteer and group that joins us to participate in Keep America
Beautiful's Great American CleanupTm .
"For each
of our millions of volunteers nationwide, "green" starts with his or her
decision to help clean up the local park or the abandoned building lot, or the
community garden or any of the hundreds of sites across the country where
volunteers work to better the community" said Matthew McKenna, president and
CEO of Keep America Beautiful. Locally, Keep Akron Beautiful relies on the
national sponsors listed below for the supplies and media support necessary for
orchestrating this environmental public awareness campaign.
This year,
Keep Akron Beautiful is working to recruit thousands of civic-minded volunteers
to adopt a public parcel of land to clean during the 28th Clean Up
Akron Week, which will be April 18-25th, 2009. They will be joined
by the estimated 3 million volunteers who will get involved and let "green"
start with them by participating in over 30,000 community improvement
activities and workshops in over 17,000 communities nationwide. Last year in Akron, 2,743 citizens
registered to clean 119 sites of 7.08 tons of litter and 3,275 students from 35
public and private schools joined in the event and cleaned their school
campuses!
We want every church, neighborhood block
watch group and volunteer organization to get registered now to tackle eyesores
in their own backyards and to restore a sense of pride and ownership in their
local environments.
For this one week, Keep Akron
Beautiful will provide cleanup supplies for FREE and arrange for FREE disposal.
Call 330 375-2116 to get a registration form or register online at http://www.keepakronbeautiful.org.
Clean up
Akron Week is about spreading the message of individual responsibility to keep Akron clean, green and
beautiful. We are asking you to devote a few hours from your busy lifestyle to
transform your neighborhood into a cleaner, safer and healthier place to live
and work.
Keep America
Beautiful, Inc., established in 1953, is the nation's largest
volunteer-based community action and education organization. This national
nonprofit forms public-private partnerships and programs that engage
individuals to take greater responsibility for improving their community
environments. Its signature program, the Great American Cleanup, is one of its
many programs that encourage people to care for communities through volunteer
participation.