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Clean Up Akron Week

Keep Akron Beautiful is reminding Akron residents that Green Starts Here, with each volunteer and group that joins us to participate in Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup.

This year, Keep Akron Beautiful is working to recruit thousands of civic-minded volunteers to adopt a public parcel of land to clean during the 29th Clean Up Akron Week, which will be April 17-24th, 2010. They will be joined by the estimated 3 million volunteers who will get involved and participate in over 30,000 community improvement activities and workshops in over 17,000 communities nationwide. Last year in Akron, 2,743 citizens registered to clean 121 sites of 4.7 tons of litter and 1,972 students from 32 public and private schools joined in the event and cleaned their school campuses!

We want every church, neighborhood block watch group and volunteer organization to get registered now to tackle eyesores in their own backyards and to restore a sense of pride and ownership in their local environments.

For this one week, Keep Akron Beautiful will provide gloves, bags, Purell and trash disposal for FREE to all registered volunteers. Also, the first 1,000 registered volunteers will receive FREE admission to the Akron Zoo for our annual volunteer appreciation picnic on Saturday April 24th, from 11:30-1:30pm.

Register your group below, or call 330 375 2116 for more information. Keep Akron Beautiful wants you to join the challenge and volunteer!

KAB 2010 summer internship opportunity

Dreamscape

Do you dream of having a front or back yard rival those you see on HGTV? Thanks to Keep Akron Beautiful's annual Dreamscape Makeover Raffle, you may just get your wish!

Owners of Summit County businesses or residences can enter to win a professionally designed front or back yard makeover valued at $10,000. Raffle tickets are $25 each or five for $100.

The winning ticket will be drawn on Thursday, June 3, 2010, at 10:30 a.m. at Alexander Park on West Market Street.

Tickets can be purchased via the KAB website, at the KAB offices, located at 850 East Market Street, Akron, OH 44305, or at the following 7 Vendor Partner Retail Locations:

Suncrest Gardens

Dayton Nurseries and Garden Center

Graf Growers Garden Center

Hoffman's Garden Center

KB Compost Services, Inc.

Paul's Greenhouse

Donzell's Flower and Garden Center Greenhouse

Dreamscape Raffle was developed by Keep Akron Beautiful as a fundraiser 7 years ago to support its public land beautification program, Flowerscape. All sales of the 1,500 tickets will be used to fund the Keep Akron Beautiful Flowerscape program which plants and maintains 40 Flowerscape sites annually!