04/21/2006: "Volunteers Needed for Earth Day 2006"

Join Soroptomists, Kiwanis, Rotary and Lion's Club in cleaning San Juan Island roadways-

Receive a coupon for a free bag of popcorn from the Popcorn Lady when you sign up to clean up your favorite road. The Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary and Soroptimist Service organizations have organized the San Juan Island Roadside Cleanup. Signups are at the Market Place in Friday Harbor, from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday and then again from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 22 . Volunteers can mark a map for a section of road they will pick-up trash on -look for the table by the front door to sign-up. Trash bags and gloves will be available. Public Works will pick up your filled bags after you leave them by the side of the road.

• South Beach, San Juan Island – 10am to Noon: Join the Lion's Club and Griffin Bay Parent Partner Program. Look for a Lion's Club representative at South Beach's first parking lot who will hand out trash bags, data survey forms and gloves.

• South End Lopez – 10 am: Join Nick Teague of the Bureau of Land Management at Watmough Bay trail head at 10:00 am to cover Watmough Bay, Point Colville and Iceberg Point locations.

• Adopt your favorite beach! Please call Jana Marks at Friends of the San Juans at 378-2319 to see which beaches still need to be adopted. They will provide clean-up supplies and data survey forms.

Thanks to the Orcas Christian School who annually cleans Crescent and Eastsound Beaches, Shaw students for covering South Beach, Waldron School for removing debris from Cowlitz Bay Beaches, Pat Martin of SJC Public Works and the National Park Service for handling larger items.