Amador County – Another successful Clean It & Green It event took place in Jackson last Saturday (April 24th). The annual event coincides with Earth Day and serves as a spring-clean up for the entire city. Over 300 volunteers participated in the event, including 225 through the Disney Give a Day, Get A Day promotion, which allowed select participants to receive passes to Disneyland. City Manager Mike Daly said volunteers began arriving at Detert Park at 8:30 am and “were sent out into Jackson to pick up trash and work on a couple special assignments.” Special clean-up projects included the Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre, Jackson City Cemetery, and the planter beds at the Highway 49/Main Street intersection. Many community organizations also participating in the “Green It” fair with demonstrations, special projects, and other activities intended to increase awareness of positive “earth-friendly” habits, recycling and energy use. Daly said local band “Hero's Last Mission” provided some excellent music to entertain the volunteers upon their return, as well as for attendees at the Green It fair. Daly gave “great thanks go to Bank of Amador for meal service, Jim McHargue at Amador County Solid Waste for his help working with the City to coordinate the event, Amador Community Foundation for hooking us up with the Disney program, ACES Waste Services for supplying the debris box, the Kiwanis Club for beautifying the planter beds at the 49/Main signal and all the other groups of volunteers who made the event such a success.” Also, an “E-waste Collection Event” took place at the old Prospect Motors lot directly across the street from Detert Park, billed as a “safe and environmentally friendly way to recycle all of your old electronics with 100 percent of all donations benefiting the Argonaut High School Science Club.” The club raised almost $500 assisting with E-Waste Collection. Story by Alex Lane This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.-
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Amador County – Another successful Clean It & Green It event took place in Jackson last Saturday (April 24th). The annual event coincides with Earth Day and serves as a spring-clean up for the entire city. Over 300 volunteers participated in the event, including 225 through the Disney Give a Day, Get A Day promotion, which allowed select participants to receive passes to Disneyland. City Manager Mike Daly said volunteers began arriving at Detert Park at 8:30 am and “were sent out into Jackson to pick up trash and work on a couple special assignments.” Special clean-up projects included the Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre, Jackson City Cemetery, and the planter beds at the Highway 49/Main Street intersection. Many community organizations also participating in the “Green It” fair with demonstrations, special projects, and other activities intended to increase awareness of positive “earth-friendly” habits, recycling and energy use. Daly said local band “Hero's Last Mission” provided some excellent music to entertain the volunteers upon their return, as well as for attendees at the Green It fair. Daly gave “great thanks go to Bank of Amador for meal service, Jim McHargue at Amador County Solid Waste for his help working with the City to coordinate the event, Amador Community Foundation for hooking us up with the Disney program, ACES Waste Services for supplying the debris box, the Kiwanis Club for beautifying the planter beds at the 49/Main signal and all the other groups of volunteers who made the event such a success.” Also, an “E-waste Collection Event” took place at the old Prospect Motors lot directly across the street from Detert Park, billed as a “safe and environmentally friendly way to recycle all of your old electronics with 100 percent of all donations benefiting the Argonaut High School Science Club.” The club raised almost $500 assisting with E-Waste Collection. Story by Alex Lane This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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