Lose The Litter Day

Set For April 30

The Newtown Lions Club will sponsor Newtown’s annual Lose the Litter Day on Sunday, April 30, from 9 am to 1 pm. Rain date has been set for the following weekend, on May 7.

 Residents of Newtown will once again band together to clean up roadsides in town. Volunteers may pick up bags and gloves at Newtown Middle School from 9 am to 1 pm on the day of the event, although the actual clean-up may be done at any time during the day or the following day.

 Volunteers may select a particular road or they may be assigned a road on the day of the event. Participants who find one of the coveted “golden cans” will win tickets to the movies at Edmond Town Hall.

The litter collected by participants may be dropped off in designated areas at the Botsford, Hook & Ladder, Dodgingtown, or Sandy Hook firehouses on Sunday or Monday. Newtown Highway Department will pick up the accumulated trash and haul it away.

This is Newtown’s tenth Lose the Litter Day. The project was started by Judy Holmes and the Newtown Environmental Action Team, which ran the program for the first six years. The Newtown Lions have continued the project in recent years.

In the past, the project has drawn wide support from town residents, and as many as 175 volunteers have turned out to give the town’s roadsides a thorough spring cleaning. Anyone interested in more information or in volunteering for a particular road may call the project chairman, Jerome Mayer, at 426-9282.