Kenton County Parks & Recreation will facilitate the annual Doe Run Lake & Nature Trail Clean-Up, beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, April 23.
The effort is part of the Keep America Beautiful Great American Clean-Up 2016.
The event provides citizens an opportunity to ‘Make a Difference’ by picking up trash and litter and to explore one of the last remaining public natural areas in Kenton County.
Volunteers can come for the whole day or just part of the day. Rubber gloves and trash bags will be provided and there will be a restroom available.
Participants are advised to wear boots or old shoes and old clothes.
Volunteers will collect and remove everything that should not be found in a county park, including trash, construction debris, automobile and truck tires, old fishing line, and an odd assortment of other objects not usually associated with nature and the outdoors.
There will be a ‘Most Unusual Find’ contest again this year. One year, it was a bowling ball; another year, it was two halves of an electric guitar.
Those needing community service hours should locate Recreation Coordinator Steve Trauger, who will be happy to sign any paperwork.
Doe Run Lake is located at 1501 Bullock Pen Road in Covington, KY 41017.Take the Covington/Independence (Exit 80) off I-275. Go south (away from Covington and under I-275) on KY 17 (Madison Pike) about one mile. Follow the signs. Volunteers should meet in the parking area near the boat launch.
For additional information, please call 859-525-PLAY (7529).
Kenton County Parks and Recreation