Saturday April 26th saw members and friends meet at our Charles Ansel to save our small piece of the environment. We joined over one billion people worldwide working on projects together in their communities during the week of Earth Day by doing a litter clean-up covering the Park and its abutting lands along the Welland Canal Parkway and Bunting Road itself, north of the Park in both sides of Lock One. Congratulations to Chair, and chief litter picker extraordinaire, Bruce Timms for an outstanding event despite the usual cold and RAIN! Following the clean-up, we retired to Rickijos for some liquid refreshments.
The Great Lakes Watershed Cleanup initiative is an effort that has grown from a District 7090 service project covering a small portion of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie to a multi-District plan to focus Rotarians’ attention on all five of the Great Lakes and the streams and waterways feeding them. The Great Lakes contains almost 20% of the world’s fresh water and is arguably the largest source of fresh water on the planet. It borders eight states and two provinces and has 9,577 miles (15,323 kilometers) of shoreline. So far, 15 Districts, 100’s of Clubs, and thousands of Rotary volunteers have agreed to participate.