Wellington Calls on Volunteers for the 2012 International Coastal Clean-Up
The floodwaters from Tropical Storm Isaac have subsided, and now Wellington is calling for volunteers to clean up its canal banks as part of the 2012 International Coastal Clean-Up. Participants will meet at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 15th at Wellington’s Public Works Facility located at 14001 Pierson Road where they will be assigned a section of a canal. Wellington and Keep Palm Beach Beautiful, Inc. will provide volunteers with t-shirts, trash bags, gloves, maps of Wellington’s canals, and bottled water. The clean-up wraps up at 12:00 p.m.
All volunteers must register in advance by contacting Chris Degler at (561) 753-2587 or cdegler@wellingtonfl.gov. Students who participate will be eligible to earn community service hours.
The International Coastal Clean-Up is one of the world’s largest one-day volunteer efforts geared toward cleaning up both coastal and inland waterways. Last year alone, nearly 600,000 volunteers picked up more than 9 million pounds of trash along 20,000 miles of coastlines.
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