Great American Cleanup, Rockland County Branch Looking for Volunteers

For immediate release

Contact: Eileen McCafferty

Come volunteer with your neighbors, friends in Keep Rockland Beautiful’s Spring cleanup event!

From now until June, Rockland County’s very own environmental, non-profit Keep Rockland Beautiful is hosting their annual Great American Cleanup, a smaller sector of the national community improvement program Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup.

Keep Rockland Beautiful is a proud source that educates and empowers the members of the Rockland family to care and protect the immediate surroundings in our corner of New York State. We ride our bikes on these streets, we play in these fields and woods, and we enjoy the natural waterways that create the ecosystem of our county.

Registering for this two-month, weekly event gets you out into the community and creates a greener environment for all to enjoy. It’s a great way to connect with neighbors, get out into nature, and obtain community service hours. Every year, KRB has over 4,000 volunteers come together every weekend in various locations to clean up the litter within our neighborhoods.

The Great American Cleanup has cleanups at least once a weekend until the end of May, with some weekends holding multiple cleanups on both Saturday and Sunday. From Piermont to Haverstraw, Sloatsburg to Nyack, there are so many different towns to get connected with. The volunteers do cleanups along the sides of highways, local streets, and various waterways in Rockland.

Register now at www.keeprocklandbeautiful.org for any of the listed dates. Or if you have a date and location you would like to work on, call Keep Rockland Beautiful with the details. Get your friends, neighbors and local community members to become volunteers.

For further information, email Kevin Lowenwirth, the Cleanup Coordinator at cleanups@keeprocklandbeautiful.org or Jennifer Longo, the Administrative Officer, at jennifer@keeprocklandbeautiful.org .