The SCARCE staff and volunteers have given back and now needs our support!

S.C.A.R.C.E. (SCARCE stands for: School & Community Assistance for Recycling and Composting Education) is not scarce when it comes to support of environmental education. They do an amazing amount of work every day all year round with volunteers and many donations. They do need your support with funding that I believe is well spent. I have heard their leader Kay McKeen speak and teach all of us on environmental issues with practical steps to help the environment. In addition, they help reuse thousands of books, crayons, toys and assorted items that benefit our schools across the area. What they get back into use for education has to be at least 5X the amount of money they get from DuPage County.

The SCARCE staff and volunteers have given back to our communities for many years. We need to support them now to continue their important work that ultimately is a savings in the long run. Their funding from DuPage County is in danger according to recent news reports. The DuPage County Environmental Committee will be meeting this Tues. 5/1 in the morning and needs to hear from us.

 

I have encouraged the Environmental Committee of the DuPage County Board to support the group and give it sufficient funding to continue its helpful programs. I also encourage you to go to their website http://www.scarceecoed.org/ or better yet go to their location in Glen Ellyn at 799 Roosevelt just west of Rte 53 on the south side of the street to learn more!

 

If you agree that DuPage County should continue to support the SCARCE group and their efforts to support environmental education please send an email by 5/1 to jredick@dupageco.org; rgonzalez@dupageco.org; Bill.Bedrossian@dupageco.org; robert.larsen@dupageco.org; mmcmahon@dupageco.org; amichelassi@dupageco.org, Chairman@dupageco.org and copy the local newspapers at letters@tribune.com, fencepost@dailyherald.com, letters@suntimes.com, questpublishing@aol.com, lombardian@sbcglobal.net, news@examinerpublications.com, doingnews@pioneerlocal.com, editor@cod.edu, editorial@mysuburbanlife.com, thesun@scn1.com,

 

You are encouraged to pass along this email.

 

Don Kirchenberg

Downers Grove, IL

630-853-7650

Email frndsgrtwstntrl@aol.com

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Annual all volunteer trails cleanup (next Sat. 4/28/12) safety tips

Please include this info in news articles and/or pass this info to your volunteers at the trails cleanup next Saturday 4/28/12:

Basic suggestions to follow
when picking up trash along the trails.

Thanks for your interest in the trails. We definitely need volunteers along the GWTs all year around.

Be careful out there so you can enjoy the trails year around. Here are some basic suggestions to help make the cleanup safer.

1. We suggest that you wear gloves, long sleeve shirts and long pants to protect you from thorny bushes and/or broken glass along the trails.
2. Take a wagon or cart to haul the filled trash bags out to the closest trash can or cross street.
3. Please do not leave the filled bags along the trails.
4. If you want to recycle bottles and cans you pick up you'll have to separate them and take them to your home or local recycling bin. The local authorities and waste pickup companies do not accomodate recycling along the trails. Unless you see a recycling container do not assume it will be recycled.
5. Be careful and if you see something too big or hazardous to pick up. Please advise us of the approximate location like north side of trail 1/4 mile east of the closest cross street. With that information we can get the appropriate authorities with the appropriate equipment to safely remove the items dumped along the trails. Send us an email to frndsgrtwstntrl@aol.com.

Volunteers cleaning up the trails is the essence of the spirit that started the Friends of the Great Western Trails over 12 years ago as an all volunteer group (and we remain unpaid volunteers) without any memberships or big bank accounts like other groups.

Thank you again for your support!

 

Don't forget to send us photos of your volunteers and your pile of trash bags with the tired but smiling volunteers. If you can list the volunteers by name we will print their names too!

>>> To promote the cleanup we encourage you to use this flyer which contains trail maps on the second map too: http://www.friendsofthegreatwesterntrails.com/images/2012_cleanup_flyer_with_trails_map_second_page_1_.pdf

Don Kirchenberg

Voluntary Chairman Friends of the Great Western Trails
mobile 630-853-7650

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