RALLY DOWN BY THE RIVER MORE THAN 1,000 EXPECTED AT CLEANUP.Byline: Daily News NEWHALL -- More than 1,000 volunteers are expected Saturday to pick up the tires, empty beer cartons, Big Gulp cups and grocery bags that litter litter /lit·ter/ (lit´er) stretcher. lit·ter n. 1. A flat supporting framework, such as a piece of canvas stretched between parallel shafts, for carrying a disabled or dead person; a Newhall Creek. Workers of all ages wearing gloves and hauling trash bags will clean the dry river bed of broken glass and other trash as part of Santa Clarita's annual River Rally. The event will be held from 8 a.m. to noon in the creek bed behind the Newhall Community Center, 22421 Market St., Newhall. An environmental expo will follow. The cleanup is an effort to beautify the immediate area while keeping the trash from ending up in the Santa Clara River Santa Clara River may refer to:
Clubs, student groups, Scout troops and families gather each year to help at the rally. The expo will feature exhibits by more than 25 vendors, including those with information on recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. , air quality, pollution prevention, open space preservation and wildlife conservation. A total of 117 tons of trash and debris debris /de·bris/ (de-bre´) fragments of devitalized tissue or foreign matter. In dentistry, soft foreign material loosely attached to a tooth surface. has been collected since the first river rally. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Volunteers will clean Newhall Creek of trash, such as this found in the wash behind the Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, Community Center, during Santa Clarita's annual River Rally on Saturday. Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer |
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