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April 2011

April

Water Conservation Month in Florida

April 2

9 - 12 

Wekiva River Clean-up

from the Wekiva Falls Resort

30700 Wekiva River Rd

Sorrento, Fl 32776

 

Join us for a great day – on the Wekiva River surrounded by the beauty of nature.

We conduct our river clean up from canoes and kayaks provided free of charge by Wekiva Falls our host. Please remember to bring your cameras for beautiful river scapes that you'll never forget.

 

** For all of our outdoor activities please bring: sunscreen, insect repellant, gloves and WATER. We no longer provide individual disposable plastic water bottles.

 

For more details call Mike at 407-234-7283

April 9

10 - 4 

 

Wekiwa Springs State Park

 

This is not a Keep Seminole Beautiful event but we stronly support it!

 April 9

9 - 11 AM

Non-Native Invasive Plant Removal

Big Tree Park

761 GENERAL HUTCHISON PKWY
LONGWOOD, FL 32750

 

We have non-native invasive plants growing in our  forests. The only environmentally sensitive way to remove these is by hand. We will be putting our efforts into pulling these up so that we can plant native plants on some future events.

 

** For all of our outdoor activities please bring: sunscreen, insect repellant, gloves and WATER. We no longer provide individual disposable plastic water bottles.

 

For more details call Kristie at 772-285-5628

4-16 

Volunteer UCF River Clean-up

from Wekiva Island
http://wekivaisland.com/
1014 Miami Springs Road
Longwood, 32779 

Every year Volunteer UCF sends scores of volunteers to work on environmental projects in Seminole County. This time they are focusing on the Wekiva. Volunteer UCF encourages others to join in the effort.

This is a fun family activity. We take 2 or 3 person canoes (with kids 4 person) and go out on the magnificent Wekiva River and use small nets to pick up any trash we see. A very easy canoe trip that offers great camera moments. 

 

For more details call Mike at 407-234-7283

** For all of our outdoor activities please bring: sunscreen, insect repellant, gloves and WATER. We no longer provide individual disposable plastic water bottles. 

4-16

Wekiva Springs Road Cleanup

hosted by Wekiva Island & Keep Seminole Beautiful

 

Meet at the corner of SR 434 & Wekiva Springs Road by Publix. We pick up trash & litter to stop it from being washed down the storm drains and into our rivers and lakes.

 

Call Sean Concannon for more information at 407-625-6839


** For all of our outdoor activities please bring: sunscreen, insect repellant, gloves and WATER. We no longer provide individual disposable plastic water bottles.

4-23

10 - 3

 

This year's Earth Day celebration will be on Saturday, April 23rd, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM at Lake Concord in Casselberry.

 

The City of Casselberry, the Casselberry Friends of the Park and Keep Seminole Beautiful have joined forces to bring you Earth Day 2011! This is a FREE event and open to the public.

The Cassselberry Friends of the Park plans are to raise enough money to help clean up our lakes of non-native invasive plants and replace them with local native plants in hopes that they be an inviting environment for local wildlife. By ridding the lakes of non-native invasive plants we would be creating a welcoming environment for otters and other wildlife. Our lakes are currently home to otters, but sadly, only one or two of them exist. We would like to see our efforts bring more otters, fish and other wildlife.

 

Keep Seminole Beautiful runs 70+ events a year, every month we do 2 river clean-ups, pick up litter under the County's Adopt-A-Road program and have a Non-native Invasive plant removal at Big Tree Park. Additionally we have many other projects, some large like this Earth Day Project or smaller like planting a Native Plant Butterfly Garden.

 

One hundered percent of our funding comes from private sources, corporate doners, service contracts, grants and projects like "Earth Day 2011 It's In Your Hands."

The theme this year is "It's In Your Hands". We would like to raise awareness and show that the future of our community is in everyone's hands. The City of Casselberry is also including Arbor Day so be sure to come by and win a free tree giveaway!
This event will be split into 6 areas. The main vendor/sponsor area, Educational Fun Zone, Transportation Area, Art House, On-Stage Productions, and Food Court.
Become a sponsor or vendor today!

 Please call me, Mike Barr at 407-234-7283 or email me at Mike@KeepseminoleBeautiful.org if you need more info now!

 

 

 

  You may pay your sponsor or vendor fees today ...

 

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4-29

Arbor Day (from the Latin arbor, meaning tree)

 

 is a holiday in which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant and care for trees. It originated in Nebraska City, Neb., in the United States in 1872. J. Sterling Morton is the founder of Arbor Day. The first Arbor Day was held on April 10, 1872, and an estimated 1 million trees were planted that day.

 

Many countries now observe a similar holiday. Though usually observed in Spring, the date varies, depending on  and suitable planting season.

 

Birdsey Northrop of  was responsible for globalizing it when he visited Japan in 1883 and delivered his Arbor Day and Village Improvement message. In that same year, the American Forestry Association made Northrup the Chairman of the committee to campaign for Arbor Day nationwide. He also brought his enthusiasm for Arbor Day to Australia, Canada and Europe.

 

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska non profit called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a  for their publication "Arbor Day," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for "public use celebrations" and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to insure it was judged as property of the , the case was settled in October 1999. Today as a result of Wright's efforts anyone can use the term Arbor Day and anyone can hold their own Arbor Day celebration.

National Arbor Day is the last Friday in April

4-30

9 - 12

Wekiva River Clean-up

from Wekiva Island
http://wekivaisland.com/
1014 Miami Springs Road
Longwood, 32779

 

This is a fun family activity. We take 2 or 3 person canoes (with kids 4 person) and go out on the magnificent Wekiva River and use small nets to pick up any trash we see. A very easy canoe trip that offers great camera moments. 

 

For more details call Mike at 407-234-7283

 

** For all of our outdoor activities please bring: sunscreen, insect repellant, gloves and WATER. We no longer provide individual disposable plastic water bottles.