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April 21, 2010
Get ready for Great American Cleanup April 24 By Jennie Key jkey@communitypress.com
Once spring has sprung in Colerain Township, the Great American Cleanup can’t be far behind. The cleanup is Saturday, April 24, and several groups are working in a number of areas to spruce up the township. At Clippard Park, Colerain Township zoning administrator Susan Roschke says there will be a cleanup squad taking on the wooded area beginning at 9 a.m. Students from Colerain and Northwest high schools are also lending a hand. This is a change from the
original plan, which was to do a cleanup at Dravo Park. “We felt Clippard could use the clean up more,” Roschke said. “Dravo was in a little better shape than we expected.” All ages are welcome to participate, Roschke said. You can come by yourself or bring a group. Register for the park cleanup by calling Roschke at 513-385-7500 or drop her an e-mail at sroschke@coleraintwp.org so she can plan the work at the site. If you have already signed up through the Disney program you will receive your Disney Day upon confirmation of their participa-
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More information The Great American Cleanup is a national day of service, with nearly 3 million volunteers throughout the country cleaning up their communities. Plans for hundreds of various projects across the Tristate are now under way, including litter and debris cleanups on public land and along area waterways, spruceups of community parks and playgrounds, planting of trees and community gardens, and many other activities designed to improve the living environments throughout the area. tion in the cleanup. Roschke says the Disney program, which gave free admission to a Disney park for an approved day of community service, has reached its maximum number of volunteers. The Colerain Community Association is planning to clean up a number of community gateways with the help of Boy Scouts from St.
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A bicycle and a tire were just two of the items volunteers hauled out of a creek behind the Pleasant Run Swim Club during a past Great American Cleanup.
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Ken Lohr picks up litter during a past Great American Cleanup. He is president of the Colerain Community Association. John and St. James troops and other volunteers. Ken Lohr, president of the CCA, said his group will be working at the Colerain Avenue-Interstate 275 interchange and at the Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway interchange at Colerain Avenue. There will also be groups working at the Hamilton Avenue-I-275 inter-
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change and at Blue Rock Road and I-275. “Now we just need good weather,” he said. The CCA group meets at 8 a.m. on the first Saturday of the month at Toys R Us at the Colerain and I-275 interchange and at the Hamilton and I-275 interchange. The group also meets at 8 a.m. on the second Saturday of the month at Ronald Reagan Highway and Colerain Avenue.
The CCA provides gloves, vests, and pick-up sticks. In addition to collecting litter, group members also maintain plant beds, cut grass and landscape the interchange areas. Lohr said because of the April 24 date for the Great American Cleanup, his group will move its regular first Saturday clean-up next month from May 1 to May 8. “We are always looking for new volunteers,” he said.
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