Keep Lakewood Beautiful Plans Busy Spring

Sue Lust and Maureen Kermode, Keep Lakewood Beautiful, help to garden and clean at City Center Park to prepare for Lakewood Arts Festival; Summer, 2010.

Keep Lakewood Beautiful is starting up for another busy spring! As our snow melts and flowers begin to pop up, we need to clean-up what an especially long winter left behind. We are planning our Great American Clean-Up in Lakewood on Earth Day April 30 and are thrilled to have received a grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) to help with these events.

Keep Lakewood Beautiful is looking for individuals and groups to register for the Great American Clean-Up in Lakewood. Church groups, scout troops, block groups and community groups and individuals are needed to assist with picking up litter and sprucing up our public areas of Lakewood. KLB will provide supplies to registered groups before the event. Groups can inform us of a park, business district, or parking lot that they would like to clean or we can suggest one for them. The Clean-Up is Saturday, April 30 from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. All clean up groups are then invited back to the Woman’s Pavilion in Lakewood Park for lunch provided by Keep Lakewood Beautiful. If interested in helping with this event please call 529- 6602 or email Holly.Lauch@lakewoodoh.net. Help us and do your part to Keep Lakewood Beautiful by joining us April 30 for this Spring Clean-Up.

Then….stick around for the afternoon and join us at the Woman’s Pavilion at Lakewood Park for our celebration of Earth Day. From 1 p.m. – 4 p.m., we will have a variety of events informing us about Living Green in Lakewood! We will share with you the latest in recycling in Lakewood, rain barrels, healthy eating, composting and preservation of our Great Lake Erie. Join us for fun, informative events and displays for both adults and children April 30 from 1 p.m.- 4 p.m.

We are pleased to have the support of the ODNR Office of Coastal Management to help us with this community wide event. We are committed to target our one and only and most treasured gem of Lakewood: Lakewood Park. Lakewood Park provides our community with access to Lake Erie. We are targeting the entire park so that we can fully enjoy the views that the park offers and do our part to keep litter from entering our great and beautiful asset - Lake Erie.

We hope you will join us in one or all of these events Saturday, April 30. Whether you have just an hour or more we think you can make a difference. Living green is easy to do and we commend all those residents of Lakewood who live green every day by recycling, reusing, composting, picking up litter, disposing of cigarette butts properly, bagging yard waste and the lists go on...Keep Lakewood Beautiful thanks you for doing your part to keep our city beautiful.