South Yuba River (photo by Abigail Limov)

Clean-up sites are filling fast; REGISTER TODAY for the South Yuba River Citizen League’s (SYRCL) 14^th Annual Greater Yuba River Clean-Up and Restoration Day on Saturday, September 17, 2011.  Over 500 volunteers have already registered – let’s reach 700 volunteers again this year! To register and for more information visit www.yubariver.org.

You don’t have to live locally to love the Yuba and want to care for it – volunteers will be coming from all over the state to help on Saturday including:  San Rafael, Sebastopol, Soda Springs, Los Gatos, Santa Rosa, San Francisco, Alameda, Auburn, Marysville, Yuba City, Dutch Flat, Olivehurst, Smartsville and, of course, locally too.

This all-day event includes clean-up and restoration projects from 9:00 am – noon, followed by an afternoon of festivities at the South Yuba River State Park at Bridgeport crossing to celebrate and honor our Yuba-loving volunteers. This celebration from 12-3:30pm, includes a free  barbeque lunch, toe tappin’ bluegrass tunes by Partially Past Due and Playable, Haute Trash fashion show and – new this year—the 1^st Annual Stone Skipping Competition open to all ages.

SYRCL has spearheaded thirteen successful years of river clean-ups in partnership with the California Coastal Commission’s Cleanup Day, the state’s largest volunteer event and largest volunteer event in Nevada County.  The event is held in conjunction with the 3^rd Annual Great Sierra River Cleanup, a program of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy.  The Clean-Up Day has stewarded sites ranging from the high Sierra mountains of Donner Summit to Parks Bar on the Lower Yuba, covering over 90 miles of shoreline.   With more than half a million visitors each year to the South Yuba River alone, enormous amounts of litter are discarded over the summer months.  To address these recreational impacts, SYRCL has coordinated 5,500 volunteers who have removed 126,000 pounds of trash and recycling, rebuilt trails and removed invasive species during the three-hour cleanup day each September for the past 13 years.

The South Yuba River Citizens League Board and Staff applaud each one of your for your participation in this enormous community event being proud stewards of our watershed! To register and for more information www.yubariver.org.

Here’s what some volunteers have shared about how they feel about the clean-up and the watershed we are cleaning this weekend:

• I would like to tell you thanks for taking care of our environment.

• So stoked. Can’t wait! Highlight of my LIFE. Whoop whoop.

• Keep up the good work! I have been coming to the South Yuba (from the Bay Area) for 4 years now and discovering new and better swimming holes every year.

• We all learned to swim at the river- we would love to help clean it up!

• I’ve been enjoying our beautiful waterways for years and decided I needed to give back in a bigger way than just picking up after me.

• Thank you–we love the YUBA!!!

If you love the Yuba too, then register today for a clean-up site and join the fun! www.yubariver.org

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