Yuba Clean-Up Youth Helping Out

Clean-Up sites are filling fast so don’t miss out on your favorite site for the South Yuba River Citizen League’s (SYRLC) 14^th Annual Greater Yuba River Clean-Up and Restoration Day on Saturday, September 17, 2011.  The event is in conjunction with the 3rd Annual Great Sierra River Cleanup, a program of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy. To register and for more information: http://yubariver.org/14th-annual-greater-yuba-river-clean-up-and-restoration-on-line-site-registration/

This all-day event includes clean-up and restoration projects from 9:00 am – noon, followed by a full afternoon of festivities at the South Yuba River State Park at Bridgeport crossing celebrating the Greater Yuba River and community volunteers including a free celebration honoring YOU and other volunteers from 12-3:30pm with 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 Rock 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.  SYRCL’s Greater Yuba River Clean-Up and Restoration 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 over 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.

Registration for your favorite clean-up sites and for the Rock Skipping Competition is NOW OPEN and many of the popular sites fill up quickly so go on-line TODAY and register at http://yubariver.org/14th-annual-greater-yuba-river-clean-up-and-restoration-on-line-site-registration/

SYRCL would like to thank the following food donors for the delicious hearty lunch to feed the hundreds of volunteers for their hard work: BriarPatch Co-Op Market, Indian Springs Organic Farm, Nevada County Free Range Beef, SPD, Mountain Bounty Farm, California Organics, Broad Street Bistro, Mother Truckers and Natural Selections, Four Frog Farm, Valentina’s Bakery, Flour Garden Bakery, Riverhill Farm, Living Lands Agrarian Network, Summer Thyme’s, Bakbraken Acres,  Carl’s Junior, Starbright Acres Family Farm, SunSmile farms, and Emily’s Catering and Cakes.

We are indebted to the following sponsors for their support of the event:  Nevada City Storage, A-One Bookkeeping & Tax, BriarPatch Co-Op Market, YubaNet News, PG and E, B & C True Value Hardware, Soil Sisters Farm, Little Friends Child Development Center, Inc., Clientworks, California State Parks, Sweetland Garden Shop, Archer Chiropractic, Home Town Hydroponics, and Fire Safe Council of Nevada County.

The following agencies/partners will be helping to remove all the trash/recycling from the 35 sites from Donner Summit on down to the lower Yuba River at Parks Bar without whom we could not achieve this enormous watershed restoration clean-up project:  Nevada County Department of Transportation and Sanitation, Waste Management, U.S. Forest Service, California State Parks, Cal Trans Yuba County, Placer County Parks, City of Grass Valley Public Works, Army Corps of Engineers, Nevada Irrigation District, Cal Trans Nevada City, Bureau of Land Management, Soda Springs Store, Department of Fish and Game, Sierra County Sanitation Department and Nevada County Recycles

Thanks to our partners in supporting the clean-up sites:  Sierra Club, Bear River Key Club, Gold Country Fly Fishers, Wolf Creek Community Alliance, Friends of Deer Creek, Finding the Good, Sequoya Challenge, Bear Yuba Land Trust, Nevada Union High School Stream Club, Grass Valley Charter School and Indian Valley Outpost.

Please support all of these agencies, supporters and donors as they have supported this restoration effort in such generous ways!

Help us with our BYOB campaign: Bring your own, bag and/or buckets to pick up the trash, gloves, water bottle and serving ware to the celebration.  This action will reduce the amount of trash produced by the event by not having to produce more plastic bags than necessary.

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!

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