Little Rock, Ark. — Hundreds of volunteers and nearly 30 neighborhoods plan to participate in the Great American Citywide Cleanup set for Saturday, March 12. Mayor Mark Stodola along with Steve “Wild Man” Wilson will officially open the day’s events with an 8 a.m. kickoff at Interstate Park.

Several neighborhood cleanups will take place in addition to the big cleanup at Fourche Creek, which stretches across the City of Little Rock and includes several wetlands in its nearly 108,000 acres. Approximately 75 percent of Little Rock’s drainage ends up at the Fourche, making it the end point for enormous amounts of debris.

Keep Little Rock Beautiful (KLRB), a certified local affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, is hosting the citywide cleanup to promote litter pickup, recycling, beautification and community improvement in the capital city. The seventh annual Great American Cleanup in Little Rock is part of the largest community improvement effort in the nation, the Great American Cleanup, which takes place annually from March 1 through May 31 and involves an estimated 3 million volunteers nationwide.

Keep Little Rock Beautiful will provide trash bags, safety vests and gloves to neighborhood cleanup groups that register.

Neighborhood Cleanups
Allendale Neighborhood Association
Capitol Hill Neighborhood Association
Capitol View-Stiff Station (March 19)
Central High Neighborhood Association (partnering with Central High School and Central High National Historic Site)
East Little Rock Neighborhood Association
Forest Hills Neighborhood Association
Granite Mountain Neighborhood Improvement Association
Greater South End Neighborhood Association
Hanger Hill Neighborhood Association
Hillcrest Merchants’ Association
Hope Neighborhood Association
John Barrow Neighborhood Association
Lakeview Neighborhood Association
Love Neighborhood Association (March 5)
Meadowbrook Neighborhood Association
Montagne Court Neighborhood Association
New Africa Property Owners Association
OUR Neighborhood Association
Pecan Lake Property Owners Association
Pettaway Park Neighborhood Association
Spring Valley Manor Property Owners Association
Stephens Area Faith Neighborhood Association
Twin Lakes “A” Homeowners Association
Upper Baseline Neighborhood Association
Westwood Neighborhood Association
Wright Ave. Neighborhood Association
Yorkwood Neighborhood Association

Parks
Curran-Conway Park (University Development District & NA)
Interstate Park
MacArthur Park (MacGroup)

Adopt-A-Street Participants
Son’s of Abraham Lodge 24
Open Door Outreach
First Presbyterian Church
Holiday Inn Airport Conference Center
Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation

Others
Several other cleanups led by area schools, churches and clubs.

At the 2015 cleanup, 750 volunteers collected 785 bags of litter, plus 35.6 tons of trash in dumpsters and 2.4 tons of recyclables. A total of 313 city blocks were cleaned up along with 91 acres of parkland, 4 miles of trails, and 1.5 miles of waterways.

Information on registering a neighborhood for cleanup, or signing up as a volunteer at an existing site, is available by emailinginfo@klrb.org. More information also can be found at KeepLittleRockBeautiful.com.

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