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To commemorate Earth Day, the Great American Cleanup starts this weekend and other events will be held through the week next week.
You can read this article by staff writer Laura Incalcaterra about the events, but here’s a quick list:
• The Palisades Community Center, 675 Oak Tree Road, holds an Earth Day Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The emphasis will be on “reduce, reuse and recycle,” and there will be a tag sale, children’s events, and recycling collection areas for used cell phones, ink jet cartridges, eyeglasses and sunglasses, and household batteries. Adults and children can submit a design by noon and a winner will get to paint a Keep Rockland Beautiful trash can.
• The Great American Cleanup, organized locally by Keep Rockland Beautiful has several cleanups that welcome walk-in volunteers who don’t have to sign up in advance. The meeting places:
8:30 a.m.-noon: Hillburn Youth Center, 77 Fifth St.
9 a.m.: Congers Station Park, Lake Road; Montebello Village Hall, 1 Montebello Road; Farley Middle School, Route 210, Stony Point; Suffern Village Hall, 61 Washington Ave.; Back to Earth Natural Foods Market, 306 S. Main St., New City.
10 a.m.: Nanuet train station, off Prospect Street; Orangetown Town Hall, 26 Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg.
11 a.m.: Spring Valley Commons parking lot, off Slinn Avenue.
Noon: Corner of Maple and Twin avenues, Spring Valley.
Get more information at online or by calling 845-708-9159.
• Nyack Earth Days begin. Costume-making workshop for April 26 parade, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; panel discussion on solar energy and greening your home or business, 7 p.m. At Nyack Center, Depew Avenue at South Broadway. Free.
• Rockland Community College’s Earth Day Information Fair, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., outside the library. Local environmental groups and vendors of environmentally friendly products, such as hybrid cars, will be present. Live raptor show and a disc jockey. Food, prepared by students in the hospitality program, will be available for $5 per plate.
• Hungry Hollow Co-op, Route 45, Chestnut Ridge, holds an open house, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with free samples of earth-friendly household-cleaning products, and information about sustainable agricultural practices.
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You’ve seen the “Images of America” books, I assure you. Probably every time you’ve ever walked into a big-box bookstore like Barnes & Noble or Borders.
They’re those books with sepia-toned images on the cover meant to evoke a time, long ago, when all was well with the world and things were great and hunky-dory and beautiful.
Ironically, a time before big-box booksellers like … Never mind. The point is, Bear Mountain’s getting immortalized in one of these books.
Ronnie Clark Coffey is the author; “a longtime resident of the Highlands” who has “frequented the park since her childhood.”
There will be a book signing from 7 to 9 p.m. April 2 (that’s a Wednesday) at the Merry-go-Round at Bear Mountain State Park. And Coffey’s (who also wrote the “Highlands” volume in the “Images” series) not the only “Images” author who will be on hand.
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