RWT - Great Lakes Watershed Cleanup Orientation

REGISTER NOW for the Rotary web talk about our upcoming Great Lakes Watershed Cleanup!  A Zoom link will be forwarded to all registered participants, on March 13th.  Please check your spam and junk folders if it does not show up in your in-box.  Or, email Pene at office@d7090.org.  Here is the Zoom link also:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87817074885?pwd=aUlTbExDZzZUR25PczVQZU9zS01rUT09

Great Lakes Watershed Cleanup – 2022 Orientation

With Earth Day on April 22nd just around the corner, the Rotary Great Lakes Watershed Cleanup offers your club the opportunity to provide local leadership, community service, and interesting partnerships to collect and dispose of litter within your club’s footprint. Whether it is meeting by a lakeside or by a creek, walking trail, or scouring a park, getting your team together and tidying up in the springtime is what some communities do. Join this meeting to learn about plans and planning, or hear a few others talk about their experiences and tips from last year. Events will take place between April 16 to 23 across our District as well as in other Districts across the Great Lakes.

Some details you might need to know:

1. Club community service leads or their designate are encouraged to join. If you have a role or not with your club and you are keen you are also welcome to join in. 
2. Your club does not necessarily need to do a large event. We will talk about options of doing a small event, scaling up year over year, and hear from a few clubs on their event from last year and what they plan to do for this year. 
3. We will discuss how to further partnerships with like-minded groups, Conservation Authorities, agencies, schools, and your local municipal Parks Department. 
4. We will note ways to get over 20% non-Rotarians to participate in your clean-up. 
5. There will be a few points on logistics when you have the event such as safety, reporting in afterward, and using the social media bounce to promote membership and your club’s impact. We will also note some online resources and how we can work to share documents and information.
6. There is good flexibility around the April 16^th-23^rd date as activities may need to be moved because of weather or availability. If this is your first Cleanup it does not have to be huge. Some clubs are welcome to partner up or send folks to another club’s Cleanup. 
7. We will have at least two more organizing Zoom meetings prior to our events around April 22nd. While we encourage you to join in this meeting we will be recording it for future use. 
8. Something to consider is with the addition of Environment as Rotary’s seventh area of focus, some clubs have designated a lead person on environmental issues and projects.

Please contact Dave Alexander at econiagara@gmail.com if you are interested in helping organize the District 7090 efforts or the follow-up activities with Districts across the Great Lakes basin.