- 1616.September.Saturday
American River Parkway Foundation - FOLFAN Clean-Up
Location: Black Miners Bar, Folsom, CA 95630
REGISTER ONLINE: https://signup.zone/ZWEbqdk9QWAYfs8mC
Contact Jeannie Dial with questions: jdialdvm@gmail.com.Join FOLFAN (Friends of Lakes Folsom and Natoma) as they host an early Great American River Clean Up (GARCU) event at Black Miners Bar State Park in Folsom (part of the Folsom Lake State Recreation Area).
• 8:00 to 8:30 am: Volunteers sign-in and get supplied
• 8:30 am: Quick orientation and safety talk
• 8:40 am: Cleanup starts!
• 11:40 am: Turn in trash and return trash grabbers
• 11:50 am: Group photo
• 12:00 pm: Pizza lunch
Space is limited, so register online soon to save your spot among the volunteers!HOW TO GET THERE: Enter Black Miners Bar State Park in Folsom through the Greenback Lane park entrance – just west of Folsom Blvd. If you don’t have a state parks pass, bring a printed copy of this GARCU event flyer to use as your day pass. Head for the picnic area. Follow signs.
WHAT TO BRING: Sturdy/comfortable closed-toe shoes, hat, long pants, long-sleeves, gloves, sunscreen, and bug spray. Also bring water to stay hydrated. FOLFAN will provide snacks, water to refill your bottles, and cleanup tools and supplies.
Elk Grove Anti-Trash -- Fieldstone X Elk Grove Creek
Location: Ted Kolb Way, Elk Grove, CA
Join your local Trashers on 9/16 for a channel and neighborhood cleanup wayyy out in the southeast part of Elk Grove. We hope to get to Grantline Road trail as well.Best place to park is along Sedgefield Ave at Ted Kolb Way in the Fieldstone neighborhood.We will hit all the area along the channel, the open space south of Derr Okamoto Park and nearby streets.Bonus! Right there at D-O park, our Elk Grove PD will be hosting a neighborhood BBQ in the beat from 11-2. Let’s go! We joined twice last year and helped untrash the parks.New to cleanups? Please arrive early to get signed in and get gear. If you have supplies, please bring your own gloves, buckets, bags, but we have items for you. Buckets, gloves, grabbers, vests, bags.Please wear appropriate clothing, boots
or closed-toe shoes, sunscreen, hats, and bring your own water.All cleanups are done at your own risk, but safety first! Our trash safety talk starts promptly at 9:00 am.See you soon!!Let’s Clean Elk Grove together!Link for BBQ in the Beat by EGPD
Arcade Creek Adopt a Creek @ American River College
Location: 4700 College Oak Dr, Sacramento, CA 95841
We are SO close to completing this stretch and connecting some incredible dots. We will park at the SOUTHWEST corner of the ARC stadium lot and retreat downstream where we ended on Sunday. We will then work upstream (hopefully all the way to College Oak Drive and beyond)! We are continuing our march toward Arcade Creek Park (where the amazing Alison Dusdale-Shepherd has hosted cleanups for almost 2 years now). We are all so super excited!We will start PROMPTLY at 9:00 am so please arrive a few mins early to get settled and unpacked. After our safety chat, we will continue to clean the dry creek channel and along the top of the banks, making our way upstream towards our next major destination – College Oak Drive and hopefully beyond.RCWA is so happy to continue partnering with Arcade Creek Adopt-A-Creek Project to continue cleaning Arcade Creek. Please bring water and only do what you are comfortable doing. The creek is fairly dry making trash and debris easily accessible and visible. Rain boots or sturdy shoes are nice to protect from sand and fox tails and long shirt/pants are ideal to protect from the sun and any scratches & scrapes.This event will range in difficulty from easy to difficult, with some pretty easy pickins’ around the flat grassy upper banks.RCWA will provide bags, but please bring along your sturdy footwear, grabbers, buckets and gloves – a limited number of loaner buckets and grabbers may be available. Recommended (but not required) boots or rain boots.As with all events shared by RCWA, participation is performed solely at your own risk. Please place safety FIRST and do only what you feel comfortable doing. Moreover, participants will be required to sign a Release and Waiver form if they have not done so previously.Overall, be safe, have fun and get some “Exercise with a Purpose” as Bill Templin always says!Thank you!
