Great American Cleanup
April 26, 2008 Great American Cleanup Schedule & Registration Form
The Great American Cleanup is the nation 's largest annual community improvement program.
This is the time for mobilizing the entire community, one neighborhood at a time. Whether you and your neighbors just want to do
some spring cleanup or you have in mind a project of a larger nature, the GAC is the time to do it.
Sponsored nationwide by Keep America Beautiful, this project reaches into every city from coast to coast down to millions of local
neighborhoods, church groups, garden clubs, businesses, neighborhood groups and just plain folks who care about the street they live on.
Projects run the full range of clean up, fix up, paint up to full community efforts to beautify a whole city.
Groups are encouraged to find an area in their own neighborhood that may need to be tidied up or have some flowers or trees planted.
The Loves Park Rotary Club organizes one Saturday annually to clean up and offer improvements to their city.
During the 2006 GAC 1,489 volunteers gave well over 3,000 hours of volunteer time to collect 27,000 pounds of litter and debris in the
Stateline area.
Calling Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful at (815) 637-1343 will register their efforts as part of the Great American Cleanup. Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful will also make available gloves and trash pickup bags for volunteers. The Great American Cleanup runs from April 1st through May 31st annually in the Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful service area. Be sure to call early to reserve your supplies.