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Clear Lake Mirror-Reporter Earth Day 2016 19th Annual Clear Lake Earth Days!

Empower Yourself! Earth Day Events at the Library

Make a Difference! Family Earth Day Celebration –
Monday, April 25, 6-7 p.m. at the
Celebrate! Clear Lake Public Library

It’s all about caring for and celebrating this amazing home we share. Thursday April 21 Butterflies, Bees and Your
Clear Lake’s natural beauty and bounty is what attracted the first inhabit- Garden –
ants; it is what draws many of us here today. The lake’s restoration was an impe- GREEN EXPO – 4-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, 6:30 p.m. at
tus for starting the first Clear Lake Earth Day. the Clear Lake Public Library.
The many events of Clear Lake Earth Day remind us of the common thread at theSurf Ballroom Our state is buzzing about how
of creating well-being for our families, community and our natural home. Each each of us can help monarchs,
is interconnected – whether it’s outdoor recreation for good physical and mental FREE Food • Exhibits • Door Prizes! bees and other pollinators by
health, clean water, healthy food, recycling, conserving energy, reading, telling planting the right nectar plants in
stories, or the very visible act of picking up trash in our community “backyard.” North Iowa’s festive launch into our gardens this spring.
There is much reason to celebrate! Lime Creek
spring! Nature
Community ‘Trash Bash’ is Saturday Vote for the Re-Purpose Contest Center
Finalists Director
Mike Webb
Thursday April 21 will tell us
how.
1st Grade School Music Program –
Each of us makes a difference! Let’s do our part and pitch in for Clear Lake.
“An Earth Day Story”

6:30 p.m.
at Clear Creek Elementary School

What? Trash pick-up in the public and highly-visible areas. OUTDOORFEST

Where? Choose from the sites listed or your favorite spot. Saturday, April 23, Clear Lake City Park
Select from the online map at www.earthdayclearlake.org. Everyone is welcome!

How? Bring Your Friends • Bring Your Family • Bring Yourself!
When?
Register your team online! Pick the toughest area to •TrashBash Community Events from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Why? clean; the biggest or the site that never gets chosen… Cleanup – Start at 8 a.m.
Then, chose a team theme; wear costumes or whatever! •Water Rocks!
just sign up and pitch in! YOU ARE NEEDED! (you (Please dump trash after the ISU Conservation Station
may even win a random prize or the coveted Green race start at 9 a.m.)
Jacket! ) Or, stop by at the Lakeview Room in City Park •Bounce house with slide
on Cleanup Day and join a team or pick a site. •Battery Recycling – •DNR Jeopardy game
8 a.m.- 1p.m. •Human Hungry Hippo games
Starting 8 a.m. Saturday morning April 23. Dumpster at •Food Truck
City Park. If you would like to pick up earlier the week, •5K and 10K Race – 9 a.m. •Tug of War -
bags can be picked up the Clear Lake Chamber of Com-
merce, tied off and left beside the garage at the Clear Pre-register at 10:30 a.m. at City Beach
Lake Parks and Recreation office. Please call the Parks •Fun Run – 11 a.m.
and Recreation office @ 357-7010 to let them know who www.GetMeRegistered.com/ClearLakeEarthDay Run •Live Raptor Birds – 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
dropped off the bags. Please limit the weight to less than
40 pounds and double the bag if necessary. (No lawn •Paper Recycling at •Drone demo – 11:30 a.m.
bags since those can be disposed of at the yard waste site). Opportunity Village - •Poster contest winners and
And then be sure to have fun at the Festival from 10 a.m.- Re-Purpose contest winner
2 p.m. in City Park! 10 a.m.-2 p.m. announced – Noon
Earth Day Committee will •Go Wild! Parade – 12:30 p.m.
Because it makes a difference! It adds to the quality of cover your costs up to $10 •Expired Prescription Medicine
our life, helps care for our amazing natural resources, Disposal – 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
brings folks to enjoy them and helps the local economy. (approximately 60 pounds, roughly
Oh that’s right - it’s also FUN! equivalent to three milk crates of
paper)
All ages are welcome. (young children should have supervision). Bags are available at
the Chamber, 205 Main Ave., or Clear Lake Parks and Recreation office, 800 1st Ave. S.,
prior to cleanup day and at the Lake-view Room on cleanup day. Dumpsters are provid-
ed that day– one for trash and the other for leaves, organic refuse removed from public
approaches. Volunteers are encouraged to bring their own heavy-duty work gloves and
wear boots if planning to clean up wet areas.

Master the clean-up; Win the Green Jacket Voortmann Chiropractic
& Natural Body Restoration
You can win the coveted “Green Jacket” and traveling trophy just by mentioning that
your team is participating in the Master’s Challenge when you reserve a cleanup site. Register online for the TrashBash or to
exhibit at the Green Expo!
The winner is based on the following factors: cleaning up your own business/neigh-
borhood; # of bags of trash; # of years helping with the community cleanup; dif- www.earthdayclearlake.org
ficulty of cleanup site. This data and other information will be put into a complex www.earthdayclearlake/events/trash-bash
algorithm, which is shrouded in the tradition and mystery of the Masters.