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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Jennifer Alig<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#943634'>**My email has changed to Jennifer.Alig@deq.ok.gov.**</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#943634'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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ok-sus-bounces@lists.oksustainability.org
[mailto:ok-sus-bounces@lists.oksustainability.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Miles,
Karen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 26, 2010 3:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> undisclosed-recipients<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ok-sus] Last Saturday's clean-up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I would like
to thank all of you who made last Saturday’s clean-up of Lake Overholser and
the Stinchcomb Wildlife Refuge such a success! I hope y’all had fun!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I’m trying to
find a way to be able to share photos with you from the event. If you
took photos, can you e-mail them to me?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It is amazing
how this clean-up has grown from just 12 people the first year I organized it,
to around 30 the second year, to 60 the third year, to 75 the fourth year, and
now for the 5<sup>th</sup> Annual Lake Overholser and Stinchcomb Wildlife
Refuge Clean-up we had a grand total of…..drum roll please….. 125
volunteers!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For the third
year, we enjoyed BBQ from Earl’s BBQ and hamburgers from the Cimarron Steakhouse.
A new addition this year was the donation of vegetarian subs from Jersey Mike’s
in the Westgate Shopping Center located at SW 3<sup>rd</sup> and Rockwell.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For the third
year, we had people in canoes and kayaks. But instead of the two people
who joined us two years ago, this group grew to at least 16 folks. Many
thanks to Dave at OKC Kayaks and Rodney Boegel who took it upon himself to
organize the flotilla which took a load off of me!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A big thanks
to Chesapeake Energy who supplied a grant to help make this even possible as
well as supplying volunteers. DEQ’s Green Team also provided a grant to
cover many of the lunch items such as charcoal for the hamburgers and OFF to
ward off the Stinchcomb ticks. Since I have been doing this as an unpaid
volunteer with no funding, these grants made it possible to provide t-shirts to
our team leaders, heavy duty gloves, and grabbers to get that hard to reach
trash. Though I still had to pay for some expenses out of my pocket,
support with these grants, as well as all the items donated, helped me to be
able to provide things to everybody for a fun clean-up. (Though many of
us work at DEQ and DEQ provides some material support, there is no funding
through them, and we participate in the clean-up on our own time.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I would also
like to thank the many businesses who provided so many items to all the
volunteers including Planet, the Grateful Bean Café, Celebration Station,
Chick-fil-A, Sonic, and all the others who provided the 70+ give-away
gifts. Please patronize the businesses that were on the handout you were
given to encourage them to participate next year. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It was great
to see volunteers who have participated for about the past four years along
with many others who were participating for the first time. This year we
had Sierra Club members, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Chesapeake Volunteers, DEQ
volunteers, Texas Roadhouse volunteers, and others who heard about the clean-up
in a variety of ways.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Rodney said
that he estimated that about 2 tons of trash was collected. I’m not good
about guessing weights so I was very glad that this year we were able to sort
the recyclables that had been collected in the white bags, rebag them, then
weigh each bag before putting them in the roll-out that Waste Management
provided for our recyclables. In terms of recyclables, here is how much
we kept out of the landfill:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Plastic: 177
pounds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Aluminum: 63
pounds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Glass: 198
pounds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In addition
to the ¼ ton of plastic/aluminum/glass that we kept out, we also were able to
retrieve 11 tires for recycling (unfortunately we can’t recycle to tires that
still had the rims in them). This was great! Though I didn’t weigh
the recyclables last year, there was a noticeably larger amount this
year. I was also very encouraged to see just 11 tires. The first
year of this clean-up, the 12 of us had at least 20 tires. Overall, I am
seeing an improvement. When I first took my dogs for a walk on the
Overholser Trails or in Stinchcomb, I had to always take a plastic bag with me
for all the trash I found. That didn’t make the walk very fun and was the
reason I decided to focus on these areas for the first Litter Blitz I
participated in. Now these areas overall are much better since we keep
chipping away at them and the “hidden” dump piles in Stinchcomb every year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Since I was
so busy with all the details of the clean-up, I didn’t have much of a chance to
talk to most of you. I would really appreciate your feedback about the
clean-up including what you liked and didn’t like. (I’m sorry about no
eating utensils. They have provided them in the past and somehow got
overlooked this time. The person I had worked with at Earl’s was not
there that day since he had to be in Norman to cater for the concrete canoe
races.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I would also
like to know what the most unusual item was that you found during the clean-up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Though I
agree that it would be nice to pick up items out in these areas more than once
a year, I cannot plan for an event of this scale more often than once a year
since I am not a committee and there is only so much I can do – especially
since many places just give support because it is Earth Week. But if
people want to meet another time to just pick up trash, I probably have enough
bags for that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thank
you</span></u></b> again for all your help and don’t forget to send any photos
you took!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Karen Miles</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:green'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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