April 2019 GreenNews

April 2019

Your Monthly GreenNews

Upcoming Meeting

Meetings for the Waste Watchers of the Eastern Shore are typically held on the second Wednesday of every month from Noon until 2pm at the Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce in Melfa. The minutes from the March meeting can be found here .

Please join us for our next meeting at 12:00pm on Wednesday April 10th.

All are welcome!

Click Here for a PDF of the April AGENDA

Annual Membership Renewal Request

Please take this opportunity to make a donation and/or Pay your $10 annual membership dues . Become a member and volunteer with us at least once this year and receive a FREE Waste Watchers T-shirt! See the color/design below.

www.WasteWatchersESVA.org

We hope to make further improvements to our website. If you have any ideas or suggestions, or are a whiz with WordPress and would like to help out, please email us.

The many programs and services we provide would simply not be possible without the participation of many of you!

Here is a brief synopsis of our acc omplishments in 2018:

· During 2018 Operation Our Clean Roads helped about 80 individuals participated to remove over 170 bags of litter from our scenic roadways.

· Serve on the Accomack County Solid Waste Committee.

· With GreenWorks partners at the A-NPDC and through cooperation with VDOT, the Sponsor-A-Road Pilot Program removed almost 200 bags of roadside litter.

· Distribute these monthly GreenNews editions.

· Complete the fifth annual Keep America Beautiful Roadside Litter Survey.

· Work with Northampton and Accomack County Schools to run the eighth annual Essay Contest, where students are able to read their essays on

WESR.

· Offer recycling services for the Chincoteague Seafood Festival and other events.

· Coordinate with Eastern Shore Community College to hire the second Waste Watchers Intern.

· Participate in various public outreach and education events in both Counties.

· Partner with the ESRC&DC for the Third Annual Exmore Earth Day Celebration.

News, Current Events, & Resources

Prisoners will help pick up litter from Accomack roads in new program; Salisbury Daily Times, Carol Vaughn

Authority takes steps to address environmental costs of littering; The Gazette-Virginian; Halifax County

We need YOUR help to schedule and plan for these monthly clean up events!

Operation Our Clean Roads

The March 30th event, organized by Jim & Nancy, was a huge success! Thank you to Hungars Church for allowing us the beautiful meeting location and to the 24 volunteers who got 44 bags of litter off of approximately 3 miles of scenic roadway in the Bayside/Church Neck area. (Randy Walter above)

Your next chance to volunteer is right around the corner on May 4th (see flyer & Facebook event ) meeting at Bayside Tire and Auto just north of Onancock. (Jim Townsend below, Event Check In at Hungars Church below and to the left)

Please email with questions, suggestions for dates, when you're available to help, and locations for other future cleanups!

Sponsor-A-Road opportunity available on the Eastern Shore - Help your community while improving brand recognition! This is a financial contribution to a litter removal contractor, which includes an acknowledgement sign on Route 13. Please help spread the word.

https://adoptahighway.net/

Video about the program on YouTube .

This monthly e-newletter is made possible by the GreenWorks Committee, a collaboration between the Waste Watchers of the Eastern Shore and the Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission!

These mailings will announce upcoming meetings of the Waste Watchers and those of the GreenWorks Committee, as well as potential volunteer opportunities, related community events, and locally relevant news articles.

Waste Watchers of the Eastern Shore | (757) 824-0608 | wastewatchers.esva@gmail.com| www.wastewatchers.esva.net