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Volunteers needed for Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup in Red Deer

Sep 5, 2017 | 10:16 AM

Red Deer’s riversides and trails will receive a little TLC later this month with another local edition of the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup.

Volunteers are needed for the event taking place September 10 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Those wishing to take part can show up around noon to the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. Bags and gloves are supplied, though you can bring your own gloves if preferred.

Nature Centre Special Events Coordinator Tanya Wells says the cleanup is a reminder that we are poisoning ourselves by allowing trash to get into the waterways.

“Such a high percentage of sea birds and other birds utilize our shorelines for their food – they’re eating so much plastic and garbage and junk that it’s quite literally killing them,” she says. ‘We’re putting that in the food chain.”

Wells says people who partake will be doing their part to help the ecosystem thrive and heal.

“Our spring cleanup, we pick up an awful lot, then our autumn cleanup doesn’t tend to be quite as dirty, but we still fill a good 50 bags and that’s counting on 60 to 70 volunteers who will hopefully join us,” she adds.

A free BBQ courtesy of NOVA Chemicals will follow the cleanup at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre.