To commemorate Earth Day, the Great American Cleanup starts this weekend and other events will be held through the week next week.
You can read this article by staff writer Laura Incalcaterra about the events, but here’s a quick list:
Saturday
• The Palisades Community Center, 675 Oak Tree Road, holds an Earth Day Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The emphasis will be on “reduce, reuse and recycle,” and there will be a tag sale, children’s events, and recycling collection areas for used cell phones, ink jet cartridges, eyeglasses and sunglasses, and household batteries. Adults and children can submit a design by noon and a winner will get to paint a Keep Rockland Beautiful trash can.
• The Great American Cleanup, organized locally by Keep Rockland Beautiful has several cleanups that welcome walk-in volunteers who don’t have to sign up in advance. The meeting places:
8:30 a.m.-noon: Hillburn Youth Center, 77 Fifth St.
9 a.m.: Congers Station Park, Lake Road; Montebello Village Hall, 1 Montebello Road; Farley Middle School, Route 210, Stony Point; Suffern Village Hall, 61 Washington Ave.; Back to Earth Natural Foods Market, 306 S. Main St., New City.
10 a.m.: Nanuet train station, off Prospect Street; Orangetown Town Hall, 26 Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg.
11 a.m.: Spring Valley Commons parking lot, off Slinn Avenue.
Noon: Corner of Maple and Twin avenues, Spring Valley.
Get more information at online or by calling 845-708-9159.
Tuesday
• Nyack Earth Days begin. Costume-making workshop for April 26 parade, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; panel discussion on solar energy and greening your home or business, 7 p.m. At Nyack Center, Depew Avenue at South Broadway. Free.
• Rockland Community College’s Earth Day Information Fair, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., outside the library. Local environmental groups and vendors of environmentally friendly products, such as hybrid cars, will be present. Live raptor show and a disc jockey. Food, prepared by students in the hospitality program, will be available for $5 per plate.
• Hungry Hollow Co-op, Route 45, Chestnut Ridge, holds an open house, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with free samples of earth-friendly household-cleaning products, and information about sustainable agricultural practices.
Wednesday
• Katrina Shindledecker of the Hudson Highlands land trust will discuss “Alien Invasion: Invasive Species in the Lower Hudson Valley” at 7 p.m. in Room 3214 in the student union building at Rockland Community College, College Road, Ramapo.
Thursday
• Edward Hopper House Art Center will have a workshop, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., for kids ages 7 to 10 who can use recycled and natural materials to create art projects. Suggested donation is $5 per child; preregister by e-mailing info@hopperhouse.org or calling 845-358-0774.
April 26
• Nyack Earth Days continue. Pick up supplies at Riverspace for a community cleanup, from 9:30 to 11:15 a.m.; a “Parade of All-Beings” to celebrate ecological diversity starts from Riverspace at 11:30 a.m.; a fair with educational activities, live music and food, from noon to 2 p.m., at Memorial Park; live music and a film at the Nyack Center, 7 p.m. Free.
• Trailside Museums and Zoo at Bear Mountain State Park, from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Music in the new Trailside Amphitheater; animal exhibits; tree plantings; kids activities; Ronnie Clark Coffey signs her new book, “Images of Bear Mountain.” Programs free; zoo admission $1 for those 13 and older, 50 cents for 6 to 12 or free for those 5 and younger. Parking is $6 per car.
April 27
• United Methodist Church, 76 Congers Road in New City, celebrates Earth Sunday with a special worship service at 10 a.m. Thanksgiving will be offered for four elements: water, creatures, air and plants, and there will be adult and children’s choirs.
2007 file photo of the Great American Cleanup in Rockland by Peter Carr / The Journal News/LoHud.com
