[ShareTompkins] Fwd: Embrace the Lake: Cleanups to join - starting 3/30 Ithaca Waterfront 9-11 am!

[Shira Golding]

> From: "Hilary Lambert" <hilary_lambert at yahoo.com>
> Date: March 29, 2013 10:38:24 PM EDT
> To: "'Sustainability in Tompkins County'" <sustainable_tompkins-l at list.cornell.edu 
> >
> Subject: [sustainable_tompkins-l] Embrace the Lake: Cleanups to join  
> - starting 3/30 Ithaca Waterfront 9-11 am!
> Reply-To: "Sustainability in Tompkins County" <sustainable_tompkins-l at list.cornell.edu 
> >
>
> Embrace the Lake:
> Cleanups to join - starting at the Ithaca Waterfront 3/30 9-11 am!
> Wear appropriate clothes, footgear and hats. Gloves and trash bags  
> provided.
>
> SATURDAY 3/30, 9-11am: Ithaca Waterfront Cleanup 2013!
> Every year the Cayuga Waterfront Trail Initiative and the City of  
> Ithaca work together with a variety of community organizations to  
> pick up litter and tidy up our waterfront parks and trails.
> Choose your location, contact the leader, just show up:
> 1.      Visitor Center/Chamber and Trailhead
> 2.      Stewart Park – Friends of Stewart Park. Scott Wiggins, scott at latourelle.com 
>  ; 339-1675
> 3.      Fuertes Bird Sanctuary and Lighthouse Woods – Cascadilla  
> Bird Club.  Linda Orkinwingmagic16 at gmail.com
> 4.      Newman Golf Course – Friends of Newman, Peggy Beach  mjb15 at cornell.edu 
>  273-6977
> 5.      Waterfront Trail – Stewart Park to Farmers Market (including  
> Market Trailhead cleanup) – Rick Manning  592-4647; rmannin4 at twcny.rr.com 
> /
> 6.      Inlet Island Trailhead  (cut grasses and rake beds).  Rick  
> Manning 592-4647;rmannin4 at twcny.rr.com/
> 7.      Cass Park  (trailhead, overlooks, benches, trail surface,  
> etc.).  CWTI.  Rick Manning 592-4647; rmannin4 at twcny.rr.com/
> 8.      Treman Marina/Dog Park.  Tompkins County Dog Owners Group.   
> Jon Barnes,jonlovesjosh at yahoo.com
>
> Please bring push brooms, hedge trimmers and yard rakes to help with  
> gardening tasks.  Dress warmly, wear boots if you plan on working  
> along the water edge, and hats and gloves will help keep you warm.    
> Trash and recycling bags and latex gloves to be provided.  Cleanup  
> tasks include:
> ·         Pick up litter and debris along water edge, on trail and  
> in parks and natural areas, all for City pickup on Monday.
> ·         Cut back grasses and perennials along trail and at  
> trailheads and overlooks.
> ·         Blow and sweep trail surface.
> ·         Clean benches and furnishings.
>
> =====
>
> Sunday 4/7, 1 pm: Campus Cleanup! Wells College, Aurora.
> Contact: campus greens secretary Rebecca Wind: greens at wells.edu
>
> =====
>
> Saturday 4/13, 2 pm: Cayuga Inlet cleanup! Particularly for  
> paddleboaters. Ithaca.
> It is that time of year again and The Ithaca Dragon Boat Club and  
> Cayuga Outrigger Canoe Club are doing another joint clean-up.
> We will meet at that little circle drive by the Inlet and behind  
> Ithaca Paint and Decorating (Brindley Street…?)
> Contact: Paul Closs paulcloss at gmail.com
>
> =====
>
> Saturday 4/20: 10 am: Fall Creek cleanup! Sponsored by the Petito  
> family & Neighborhood Pride grocery store. Ithaca.
> Meet at Neighborhood Pride – corner of Hancock and Lake Streets,  
> next to the creek - around 10 am and we'll go from there. Our  
> purview will work backward from there (Hancock St) to Ithaca Falls,  
> through the intervening neighborhoods. We are inviting neighborhood  
> folk to help as well - it will be fun! The Petito family, founders  
> of the Neighborhood Pride store, are pleased to be hosting this  
> Clean-Up. They will provide coffee and snacks. Cornell students  
> celebrating the Day of Demeter will be there to assist!
> Contact: Patricia Haines levelgreen2010 at gmail.com
>
> =====
>
> Sunday 4/21, noon-5 pm: Earth Day Ithaca 2013! Ithaca Farmers Market  
> Pavilion,Ithaca.
>
> We’ll provide trash bags and gloves if anyone wants to pitch in for  
> waterfront cleanup work.  This grand event includes exhibits by  
> local organizations, food, activities and entertainment. Everyone is  
> invited. Applications are available for exhibitors and vendors.
>
> Contact: Joey at solkitchen1 at gmail.com or call (607) 387-7799.
>
>
> =====
>
> Sunday 5/5 12 noon: Poplar Ridge Meeting cleanup of the Aurora and  
> Wells College waterfront area, Aurora.
> We’ll clean the same area we did last year – the lakefront across  
> from the baseball fields in Aurora, the fields and the creek bed and  
> hedgerows beside them, and the piece of woods on the lake side of 90  
> up to Paine’s Creek.
> Contact: Eric Devin end at CBORD.com
>
> We’ll send an update later in the cleanup-season.
> Want to get one organized (April-May)? Contact: btoledo at wells.edu or ambismb at gmail.com
> Info here: http://www.cayugalake.org/news/89.html
>
>
> Thanks to Mike Strok and family for their long-time support of the  
> Cayuga Lake Watershed Network
> and for the GLOVES they send each year for cleanups!
> Mike Strok   þ   Shamrock Manufacturing Co., Inc.    ý   Chino,  
> CA     ü    www.smcgloves.com
>
>
> Hilary Lambert, steward/exec director
>
> Cayuga Lake Watershed Network
>
> It takes a Network to protect a watershed
>
> www.cayugalake.org
>
> Y
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