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Over 100 Work To Clean Up Area Waterways
October 20, 2010
Over 100 people recently worked to clean up over 35 miles of North Escambia area waterways.
The cleanup was part of the Alabama Coastal Cleanup across several Alabama counties as well as Escambia County in Florida.
The largest group participating in the event was organized by Jerry Fischer and friends from Century. The group cleaned over 35 miles of shoreline in Alabama and Florida along the Escambia River, Conecuh River, Little Escambia Creek, Big Escambia Creek, Bluff Springs, Pollard and Murder Creek.
Adults and students from the Century, Jay, Brewton and Flomaton areas participated. The youngest volunteer was Chance Thornton, Fischer’s 5-yard old grandson. Century Mayor Freddie McCall personally donated the use of a garbage dumpster for the group.
This international Coastal Cleanup event serves as a public service as well as an educational tool to help teach both adults and students the grave effects that littering has on our environment, specifically to aquatic life, according to area organizer Janet Wofford. Since Alabama joined the International Coastal Cleanup in 1987, over 58,000 have volunteered for the event and over 1 million pounds of trash has been removed from shorelines and waterways.
Pictured above: Volunteers from the North Escambia area take a break at Bluff Springs, Fla., during the annual Alabama Coastal Cleanup. Pictured inset: The youngest volunteer was 5-year old Chance Thornton. Submitted photo for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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One Response to “Over 100 Work To Clean Up Area Waterways”
What a wonderful event….
I hope they do discuss with the children the effects of littering on our beautiful
beaches, littering of our roads and country.
I told my children ….
THE TRASHING OF AMERICA….
and none of them litter to this day….
not that their perfect….but their good …….