70 NATURE SITES SET FOR THE 2025 OAKVILLE EARTH DAY CLEAN UP! REVIEW THE COMPLETE LIST OF SITES HERE.
The 34th annual Earth Day Clean Up of Oakville Nature Sites is organized by the:
Oakville Community Centre for Peace, Ecology and Human Rights,
P.O. Box 52007, Oakville, ON L6J 7N5, (905) 849-5501,
info@oakvillepeacecentre.org, www.oakvillepeacecentre.org
ON APRIL 26th, PITCH-IN FOR A CLEAN, GREEN, LITTER-FREE OAKVILLE
“The 34th annual Earth Day Clean Up of Oakville Nature Sites will take place on Saturday,
April 26 beginning at 9 am at most of the seventy nature sites now scheduled for cleaning up,” remarked Stephen Dankowich, co-founder and Executive Director of the Oakville Community Centre for Peace, Ecology and Human Rights (OCCPEHR).
The event takes places rain or shine. Please consider bringing your own more durable and more comfortable work gloves and a pick-up tool. Wear long pants and long sleeved shirts for protection from ticks.
“Clean Up Site Coordinators will be directing more than a thousand Oakville citizens, students and neighbours who will be pitching-in to beautify Oakville’s nature sites. Before noon and in just a few hours time on April 26th, waste will be removed from our beautiful parks, trails, ravines, woodlots, waterways and lakefront in a concerted community-wide effort to maintain a clean, green, litter-free Oakville,” he exclaimed.
“You will be joining in with people around the world who are celebrating Earth Day. We look forward to receiving confirmation of your participation,” he added.
The Theme for the 34th annual event encourages everyone to “Pitch-in for a clean, green, litter-free Oakville.”
HOW TO REGISTER FOR THE EARTH DAY CLEAN UP (in four easy steps …)
You can pitch-in at any of the following listed Clean Up Nature Sites!
There are seven Wards in Oakville. Look for the Clean Up sites in the Ward where you live.
1. Please register right away! Sign-up by e-mail, thank you very much! Send an e-mail to info@oakvillepeacecentre.org to let us know where you will be pitching-in. Please also list the names of all others who may be joining you.
2. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT? Let us know if you are a High School student and at which school you are enrolled. All Halton District School Board (HDSB) students should bring their school’s “Record of Community Involvement Hours” form letter to the event. All Halton Catholic District School Board (HCDSB) students similarly should bring their “Community Involvement Activity” form letter to your site. The Site Coordinator will provide a “Sponsor Signature” to acknowledge your volunteer hours.
3. After registering, your e-mail will be shared with the Site Coordinator so that they will be prepared to welcome you on Saturday, April 26th at their Sign-in Table.
4. You can also contact us by telephone at (905) 849-5501 to confirm your participation in the Earth Day Clean Up or to answer any questions you may have about volunteering at this community-wide Earth Day event.
Oh! And #5. You can also register on the day at any Clean Up site but do arrive for 9 am or the otherwise listed start time! It is never too late to participate in support of Earth Day! See you there!
NEW SITES CAN STILL BE SET UP
Please contact us if you would like to become a new Site Coordinator. You can do it! Make sure all of Oakville’s green spaces get cleaned up for Earth Day. “Please pitch-in!”
THE FOLLOWING SITES NEED A SITE COORDINATOR! HOW ABOUT YOU?
~ Bronte Athletic Park, Lawson Playground and the trails heading north of Lakeshore Road up to Donovan Bailey Park (Ward 1).
~ Trafalgar Park and Oakville Arena (Ward 2).
~ Glen Abbey Community Centre grounds (Ward 4).
~ Indian Ridge Trail from Third Line to Fourth Line (Ward 4).
~ Sixteen Mile Creek Trails between Neyagawa Drive and Fourth Line (Ward 4).
~ Trails east of Pilgrims Way from Glen Abbey Gate to Potters Wheel Crescent (Ward 4).
~ Buttonbush Woods Park (Ward 7).
HERE IS THE LIST OF 70+ CLEAN UP SITES:
BY WARD, SITE COORDINATOR AND WHERE TO MEET
WARD ONE (8 Clean Up Sites)
- Bronte Bluffs Park: President Harry Shea and the Bronte Village Residents Association (BVRA) meet here to tidy up the western side of Bronte Harbour including Bronte Beach Park and C. Vokes Memorial Park. Upon completion, a team of volunteers could also clean up the trails heading north of Lakeshore Road to Rebecca Street and at Riverview Park and Westbrook Park. The motto of the BVRA is that “you cannot expect a community greater than your willingness to contribute to it.”
- Bronte Creek Provincial Park: From 10 am to Noon, Joanne Wright and Sheila Wiebe of The Friends of Bronte Creek Park welcome you to Ontario’s largest urban park located right here in Oakville! Park pass holders and visitors to the park on the day can meet your clean-up leader in Parking lot C or main Campground lot. Enjoy this park year around!
- Bronte Harbour: Meet at East Street and Ontario Street. Lesley McVean and Brian Gray rally the wider neighbourhood to clean up from Fisherman’s Wharf at Bronte Road all the way east to Water’s Edge Park at Third Line.
- Bronte Road and QEW Carpool: Peter Vandermyden’s family and a long-time crew invite you to join them as they spruce up this key Bronte Road hub leading into their south Bronte neighbourhoods.
- Burloak Drive and QEW Green Spaces: Emillie Kraft pitches-in year around in her dedication to combat littering (Meet in the Kelsey’s parking lot).
- Lakeshore Woods: Meet at Coffeed in the Great Lakes Centre Plaza at 3420 Rebecca Street to pick up supplies. Four pick-up spots are being tidied up including Nautical Park, the Creek Path Woods playground, Shell Park and along the Sheldon Creek Trail. Pitch-in with Linda Zylik, Juliet Emberton and Lauren Zylik.
- South Shell Park: Mahsa Yazdani is back for a second year for a Trails clean up.
- Valleyridge Park and Trails: From 10 am to Noon, pitch-in with Susan Dane and other Halton Outdoor Club members who will be hiking around these extensive beautiful trails in north Bronte while scouring the terrain for waste! Their goal is to be “active and energized together outdoors.” Coffee will be available; please bring your own mug!
WARD TWO (12 Clean Up Sites)
- Aldercrest Park (Meet on Blackthorn Place located behind Loyola Secondary School): Park Ambassador Cathy Buchanan is also the Site Coordinator here and she encourages Loyola students and neighbours to pitch-in with her.
- Burnet Street Park: Meet at 9:30 am to clean up from Forsythe Street to Lakewood Drive and north-south between Rebecca Street and Lake Ontario including Waterworks Park. Site staffed by Lesley Henshaw and the West Harbour Residents Association.
- Coronation Park: Appleby College, Blakelock and Loyola high school students are encouraged to pitch-in here. Site Coordinators Seema and Pradeep Nambiar of Oak Community Canada have additional activities planned including prizes for an on-site Earth Day Quiz and an essay contest.
- Glen Oak Creek Trail at Monastery Drive: University student Erik Derakhshan and Dad Ken set-up across from the Monastery Bakery.
- Hopedale Park: Earl and Sharon Weise contribute to a more litter-free neighbourhood.
- Indian Ridge Trail (Meet at the entrance to the trails on Lindsay Drive): Donna Sheppard and the South Peel Naturalists’ Club enjoy protecting green spaces like this for birds. Bird and nature lovers should seriously consider joining this fabulous Club!
- Kerr Street North and North Service Road West: AN AFTERNOON SITE, 2-4 PM; Meet at the entrance to the Il Fornello restaurant across from the Winner’s plaza. Site Coordinators Ann Osana and Dagmar Wilhelm encourage High School students to pitch-in here for Earth Day!
- Kinoak Arena/Brook Valley Park: The Rotary Club of Oakville are pitching-in with new Site Coordinator Karla Cabrera.
- Nottinghill Park: David Kantor and the Federation of North American Explorers, a Catholic faith youth group, gather here to also pitch-in along the Taplow Creek Trail and at Glen Abbey Woods.
- Old Abbey Lane Park: Pitch-in with the Oakville Parent-Child Centre which will be leading parents and their kids to clean up the park, the Glen Abbey Trail to Montrose Abbey Drive, the Old Abbey Trail to Dorval Drive and the Dorval Trail. Kalli MacKeen, a Forest and Nature School Practitioner and the Program Developer for the Centre is the first-year Site Coordinator.
- West River (Meet at St. Aidan’s Park on Queen Mary Drive): Joe Williams, Nicole Leblanc and the West River Residents Association bring members and residents together for their well publicized event. Clean up at Forster, Hilmer and Hogs Back Parks.
- Woodhaven Park and Sedgewick Forest: The Ehl Harrison family looks forward to welcoming you to the Clean Up this year. All are welcome! Meet at Woodhaven Park for supplies.
WARD THREE (9 Clean Up Sites)
- Busby Park at Central Library: Beginning at 9:30 am, CharterAbility Executive Director Stephen Cull and team welcome you to help clean up along the Sixteen Mile Creek. Meet and park under the overhead Randall Street bridge located behind the Central Library. Look for the Charterability sign! Members of the Halton-Peel Armenian Community Centre will be pitching-in here, too!
- Clearview Park and community: The Clearview Oakville Community Alliance does an exceptional job in encouraging residents and students to meet at this park, pick up a bag and gloves and go tidy up their section of this geographically large neighbourhood. Pitch-in with President Bob Brabers and Brenda Apel of COCA.
- Cornwall Road at Perkins Passage: Gather across from the Oakville Humane Society at Perkins Passage to clean up parks and green spaces on both the south and north sides of Cornwall Road from Trafalgar Road to Chartwell Road, Post Park, Maple Valley Park and the Cornwall Road Sports Park. Three brothers Site Coordinators Nikhil, Joshan and Jayen Chopra welcome you here.
- Dunvegan Park and Ardleigh Park: Residents living on and around Maple Grove Drive can pitch-in with Site Coordinators David Aylward, Dawn Seto and Rick Little and the team from St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church. Maple Grove Public School and Oakville Trafalgar High School students should plug in at the Church or meet at either Dunvegan Park or Ardleigh Park.
- Gairloch Gardens: Pitch-in with David Bird and members of the Chartwell Maple Grove Residents Association at this historic and elegant green space.
- Lakeside Park, Lakefront, Lighthouse and Museum: Clean Up downtown Oakville! Meet at the Oakville Museum where Programmer Preeya Nayee welcomes you to collect your bags and disposable gloves from inside this historic building; visit afterwards to explore the museum and learn more about Oakville’s past! And in the Museum’s Outdoor Courtyard, check out the information table set up by Bert Jackson and the Lake Ontario Swim Team (LOST), an exciting new group serving the Oakville community.
- Linbrook School: Inspired by a son’s suggestion, first-year Site Coordinator Laura Murphy leads a group of students from Linbrook School, an independent day school for boys, and their parents to also pitch-in at parks and green spaces south of Linbrook Road including Pinewood Park, Colborne Park and Lawson Park. THIS IS A NEW LOCATION.
- Maple Grove Park and Arena: Elite3 and Team will be leading the clean up of the extensive Joshua Valley trails, Aspen Forest Park, Joshua Valley Park, Beechnut Forest Park, Deer Run Park and the Southeast Sports Field. Members and supporters of the Joshua Creek Residents Association are gathering here as well.
- Oakville Curling Club: Kimberly Cranfield and the Trafalgar Chartwell Residents Association bring members and residents together here on Reynolds Street adjacent to Wallace Park.
WARD FOUR (15 Clean Up Sites)
- Arbourview Woods and Trail: Pitch-in with Jennifer Horner and the Oakville Titans Football, a local not-for-profit sports group for players aged 19 and under. Go Titans in 2025! We hope to see some of you in the CFL or the NFL in the future! Meet on Arbourview Drive at the Playground entrance. Parking is available on Arbourview Drive.
- Bloomfield Park: Stephen and Connie Wei will direct you to help clean up trails going north to the Pine Glen Soccer Centre as well as to the adjacent Nightingale Woods and Oak Haven Pond.
- Castlebrook Park: Join new Site Coordinator Sarah Bright and supportive neighbours at the park. This team will also pitch-in along the adjacent McCraney Creek trails and ravines as they beautify their neighbourhood.
- Glen Abbey Encore Neighbourhood: Aimee Gomez is a new Site Coordinator encouraging the neighbourhood to pitch-in.
- Glen Abbey Trail: Nicole and Paul Panabaker meet volunteers at the Glen Abbey Gate entrance to the trails situated across from the Abbey Park Community Centre and clean up the trails all the way south to Abbeywood Drive.
- Glen Oak Creek Trail North (Meet in the park at Fourth Line and Upper Middle Road across from Loyola Secondary): Denise Severin-Prior and Brett Prior coordinate the clean up here, along the beautiful Taplow Creek trails, at the pond on the east side and the forest at the intersection adjacent to the apartment building southeast of this site.
- Heritage Way Park: Pitch-in with Site Coordinators Weidong Zhu of the Glen Abbey Neighbourhood Association and high school student Yiding Liu. Meet at the Merchant Gate Trail entrance on the west-side of Merchants Gate off Third Line.
- Langtry Park: Devnand Nambiar is a university student and a member of Ontario Heroes and H2O Canada Youth. He encourages Glen Abbey High School students to join him here for the clean up of Fourteen Mile Creek Lands. This extensive green space has lots of room to roam about while pitching-in.
- Millstone Park: Realtors Bill and Marlene Keay greet volunteers at the entrance to the parking lot. Other green spaces to clean up include Spring Meadow Pond and all along the East Fourteen Mile Trail which extends south down to Westoak Trails Boulevard.
- Ravine at Third Line and Upper Middle Road (Next to TD Bank): Site Coordinator Amy Young welcomes you to pitch-in here, west of Bishops Gate. Clean Up volunteers can also pitch-in all around the Glen Abbey Community Centre and the nearby McCraney Creek Trail behind the Abbey Plaza.
- Sandpiper Road and Pheasant Lane: Kimberly Sziraky and family bring the neighbourhood together to tidy up the trails south to Upper Middle Road.
- Sixteen Hollow Park: Sharon Brodner welcomes volunteers at the Playground to also clean up along nearby trails.
- Stratus Parkette: Site Coordinator Raj Patel and family are pitching-in here. Join in to tidy up the wider adjacent green spaces, too!
- Westoak Trails Park: High school student Ailyn Dulgar-Tulloch and Mom Lisa will welcome you at the splashpad for the area clean up including at Grand Oak Park and Brockberry Woods Park.
- Woodgate Woods: Voula Caffrey and family engage the community here at this park and along McCraney Creek trails.
WARD FIVE (11 Clean Up Sites)
- Castlefield Park: FIRST-TIME LOCATION FOR 2025! Please meet Joni Babulal near the bus stop at River Oaks Boulevard and Oak Springs Road to grab your supplies for cleaning up Castlefield Park. We will also clean up the nearby Vineland Woods Park and Oak Springs Trails.
- Harman Gate Park: Meet in the parking lot off River Glen Boulevard to pitch-in with Laura Shaw and her family. Volunteers also will pick up waste along the trails of the Munns Creek Trail extending south to the River Oaks Recreation Centre.
- Martindale Park: Pitch-in from 8:30 to 10 am with Bruno Sousa and members and supporters of the Green Party who will gather here in a tribute and contribution to environmentalism. Bruno was the 2025 MPP Candidate for Oakville in the recent provincial election.
- Memorial Park: Meet at the Playground to pitch-in with Councillor Jeff Knoll and the Film.ca Cinemas team who will also be cleaning up the trails east of Sixth Line and south to River Oaks Boulevard East. P.S. Thanks again for the popcorn coupons!
- Munns Creek Park and Margot Street Park: Meet on Munns Street just down from River Oaks Public School for the clean up of green spaces in this neighbourhood. The Site Coordinator is David Stefan who is also a Parks Ambassador for this community.
- Neyagawa Park: Joanna Hamara of the Birds Nest Centre and son Jeremy lead the clean up of the park and surrounding green spaces.
- Oakville Park: From 10:30 am to Noon, pitch-in with Scout Leader Bruno Sousa and the team assembled by the Oakville 1st Trafalgar Scouts. Meet at the entrance to the park on Sixth Line just south of Upper Middle Road.
- Oxford Park: From this meeting spot, Michelle and Jeff Sholdice direct volunteers to also pitch-in along the Cedar Creek Trail and at Sunningdale Park and Oakdale Park.
- Pelee Woods Park: Clean up south along the Nipigon Trail from River Oaks Boulevard to Upper Middle Road with Site Coordinator Simon Mak. The19th Oakville Beaver Scouts also will be pitching-in here under the direction of Lead Scouter Sharon Liu. THIS IS A NEW LOCATION.
- Shannon Creek Trail: Meet at the Parkette on Marlatt Drive to pitch-in along the Trail. Geoff and Mary Hospital have staffed this site since 2011.
- Sheridan College/Treetop Estates: Stephane Dagenais and other residents living at Treetop Estates will meet on the west side of Marlborough Court. Sheridan College students and other neighbours also are encouraged to pitch-in at this site.
WARD SIX (8 Clean Up Sites)
- Algrove Park: Every year since 2002, Councillor Tom Adams has welcomed residents to pitch-in with him here and to also clean up along the Morrison Valley South trails extending south past Oakville Town Hall.
- Bayshire Woods Park: Realtor Paul Butler has been dedicated since 2013 to this community event as he organizes an extensive clean up of this section of north-east Oakville.
- Forest Glade Parkway: Meet at the road’s end on Forest Glade Road to pitch-in along the trails of Morrison Valley South with Colin and Norma John.
- Glenashton Drive Bridge and Ravines: Leena Bukhari, Areej Waqar and the Islamic Community of Oakville are first time Site Coordinators this spring; Congratulations! Pitch-in to clean up the trails and ravines extending south to Upper Middle Road and north to Postridge Road then all the way to the trail’s end at Trafalgar Road just south of Dundas Street.
- Glenashton Park, Nena Woods Park and Iroquois Ridge Community Centre: Meet at the IRCC to pitch-in with Jinglie Dou and the Oakville Chinese Senior 99 Association. Clean up the IRCC grounds as well as Glenashton Park and Nena Woods Park off Woodington Lane.
- Lyndhurst Park: The Elite3 and Team real estate company look forward to pitching-in from this park to also clean up the East Joshua Creek Trail and the Joshua Creek Trail. Join Helen, Sabrina, Grace, Eric and other team members who have participated in the Clean Up since 2019. Are you buying or selling your home? We greatly appreciate that these Site Coordinators appreciate that this annual event contributes substantially to the value of neighbourhoods throughout Oakville. Elite3 and Team also will be pitching-in at the Maple Grove Park and Arena site on April 26.
- The Brownstones: Leslie Osborne and her team of residents meet at 300 Ravineview Way by the mailbox kiosk to pitch-in once again along the Morrison Valley North trails and ravines behind the complex as well as at Pondview Pond.
- Valleybrook Park: AN AFTERNOON SITE FROM 2-4 PM. Park along Valleybrook Drive. Meet at the Playground gazebo to sign in and receive your bags and gloves. We will cover a large area from here! From this site, volunteers will be cleaning up all parks and trails south of Upper Middle Road to Falgarwood Drive and between 8th Line and Joshua’s Creek Drive. Also, we will clean up along Upper Middle Road East from Trafalgar Road to Ford Drive and tidy up the Sheridan Valley Trails south of Upper Middle Road. We also will pitch-in along the trails within Iroquois Woods at Grand Boulevard and Upper Middle Road East Shoreline Woods and at Fleetwood Park and Edgemere Park. Did you know that Lake Ontario once upon a time reached all the way to where Upper Middle Road is today? The Site Coordinator is Pauline Gyorkos.
WARD SEVEN (8 Clean Up Sites)
- Fowley Park: Join Ajaypal Rosha, the Site Coordinator who got things moving for the Clean Up in Ward Seven beginning in 2018, as this team will also be cleaning up the East Morrison Creek Trail between Threshing Mill Boulevard, past Wheat Boom Drive to Dundas Street and the Postville Pond. Ajaypal set-up this new site in 2023 for this expanding neighbourhood.
- George Savage Park: President Ron Chhinzer of the North Oakville Ward Seven Resident Association and Ward Seven Councillors Nav Nanda and Scott Xie look forward to meeting you here. We will also pitch-in at Charles Fay Pond on North Park Boulevard and go south cleaning up the Munns Creek Trail to Preserve Pond and George Savage Pond at Dundas Street.
- Gladeside Pond: Meet here at the pond across from Fortinos to also pitch-in at Neyagawa Woods Park and along the Shannon Creek North Trail with Site Coordinators Serguei and Natalia Doubov.
- Isaac Park and green space north of Dundas Street: Mamta Rosha welcomes you at the Gazebo for the community Clean Up.
- Lions Valley Park: Beginning at 10 am, Husnain Zakaria and the Islamic Centre of North America (Oakville Chapter) tidy up this jewel of a green space and a great place to enjoy a picnic! Meet at the parking lot.
- Palermo Park: Arpit Mittal, Oakville representative for the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh, encourages your participation at this sports park located just west of the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital on Dundas Street West.
- Preserve Woods Park: CLEAN UP AND TREE PLANTING. From 10 am to 1 pm, pitch-in and dig-in with Oakvillegreen by meeting at the intersection of Sawmill Street and Preserve Drive. Participants will be encouraged to both “Clean Up” and “Plant a Tree” at this Park. We encourage you to become a member of this fantastic local environmental group that just celebrated its 25th anniversary! Let’s do more for the environment! Oakvillegreen Conservation Association Program Manager Anelia Tichkova and Environmental Stewardship Coordinator Mukhnaam Chattha will greet you here. THIS IS A NEW LOCATION.
- William Rose Park: Sehaj Rosha became a new Site Coordinator for this site in 2023; Sehaj is a university student who encourages Ward Seven students to join him here.
TWO AFTERNOON SITES FROM 2 PM TO 4 PM ON SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2025:
Not everyone can attend the morning Clean Up and a lot of High School students naturally prefer to sleep in on Saturday mornings. So, we are very pleased to announce that there are two afternoon sites that students and their parents can pitch-in at with others, including:
KERR STREET & NORTH SERVICE ROAD WEST (Ward 2):
Clean up the green spaces from the bend at Kerr Street North and the North Service Road all the way west to Dorval Drive. Meet at the plaza entrance near the Il Fornello restaurant located across from the Winner’s plaza. Starbucks is donating coffee and baked goods to be enjoyed here from their coffeeshop in the plaza.
VALLEYBROOK PARK, UPPER MIDDLE ROAD, EAST OF 8TH LINE (Ward 6):
Clean up the Park. We also will be cleaning up the Sheridan Valley Trails and parks south of Upper Middle Road, at Iroquois Shoreline Woods and along both sides of Upper Middle Road from east of Trafalgar Road to Ford Drive.
WINNING THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST LITTERING: BUILDING ON A VERY SUCCESSFUL CLEAN UP IN 2024
In 2024, 1800 volunteers pitched-in at sixty-seven Earth Day Clean Up sites. The total weight of all waste collected and trucked away to the dump was 2,610 kilograms. The garbage truck was paid for by Halton Region Waste Management, thank you very much!
Site Coordinators at last year’s 33rd annual Earth Day Clean Up of Oakville Nature Sites on Saturday, April 20, 2024 reported that our beautiful parks, trails, ravines, woodlots and lakefront were much cleaner compared to previous years.
There was a substantial reduction in the total weight of garbage collected and fewer large pieces of trash removed from Oakville green spaces at the annual Clean Up.
The community is increasingly adopting a no-litter policy with many different constituencies contributing to the visibly noticeable successes made by these collective efforts.
Site Coordinators with the Oakville Community Centre for Peace, Ecology and Human Rights, students and schools, local government, Parks Ambassadors, Town Parks and Open Space Department staff, dog walkers and trail walkers disgusted by strewn garbage, civic minded citizens and many others are now ALL TOGETHER contributing to raising awareness about the benefits of non-littering and are maintaining the cleanliness of Oakville’s green spaces.
This is how the Oakville community is now winning the campaign against littering.
SAFETY IS THE #1 ISSUE AT THE ANNUAL EARTH DAY CLEAN UP
Safety is the #1 issue at the annual Earth Day Clean Up. Be extremely careful when picking up dangerous items like broken glass, discarded needles, used masks or jagged metal pieces. Do not lift or carry heavy or bulky items by yourself. Please do not clean up along the side of roads or around parked cars. Please use hand sanitizer that is provided after you have completed your volunteering.
We welcome all suggestions for ensuring a successful Clean Up of Oakville’s beautiful parks, ravines, trails, wood lots and lakefronts this spring.
Garbage bags and disposable gloves in various sizes will be available at each site. You are encouraged to bring your own sturdier cloth or leather work gloves, reaching sticks and other pick-up tools. People will be asked to sign-in voluntarily for the purpose of assisting future organizing.
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS EARN VOLUNTEER HOURS FOR PITCHING-IN
High school students can earn two or three volunteer hours by pitching-in.
All Halton District School Board (HDSB) students should bring their school’s “Record of Community Involvement Hours” form letter to the event. All Halton Catholic District School Board (HCDSB) students similarly should bring their “Community Involvement Activity” form letter to your site.
The Site Coordinator will provide a “Sponsor Signature” to acknowledge your volunteer hours. Come as a team of friends!
SITE COORDINATORS WILL GREET YOU WITH BAGS, GLOVES AND A SMILE!
“So many sites are confirmed for this year’s Clean Up! This builds on recent momentum! Way to pitch-in, Oakville!
At each Clean Up site, volunteers will be greeted by Site Coordinators who will have bags, disposable gloves in various sizes and hand sanitizer that have been provided by the Town’s Parks and Open Space Department, thank you very much.
Site Coordinators are the real backbone of this environmental event which began in 1992 when thirty OCCPEHR volunteers pitched-in at just one site along the Twelve Mile Creek under the overpass bridge at Bronte Road and the QEW and removed a mountain of garbage. Thank you, Site Coordinators!
The Clean Up has flourished into a widely anticipated annual activity that tens of thousands of Oakville residents and students have participated in over the past three plus decades. It is wonderful that you are making a BIG difference for our local natural environment!
Site Coordinators have stepped forward to serve their neighbourhood and have been the public face of this activity. It is thanks to their dedication and devotion to the local natural environment and to building community in Oakville that this event has been so successful in accomplishing its goals,” enthused campaign coordinator Mr. Dankowich.
THIS CLEAN UP CAMPAIGN HAS FIVE GOALS TO ACCOMPLISH
Our Five Goals are to:
1. Promote awareness and respect for nature and Oakville’s many waterways.
2. Beautify local neighbourhoods.
3. Build community through environmental activism.
4. Protect wildlife.
5. Increase awareness of the need to protect biodiversity in Oakville.
THE COMMUNITY RALLIES TO SPONSOR THIS EVENT
This community-wide environmental event is sponsored primarily by the Town of Oakville’s Parks and Open Space Department, Halton Region Waste Management, Film.ca Cinemas, several local businesses, many Resident Associations, faith organizations, and other not-for-profit community groups.
ALL VOLUNTEERS RECEIVE A COUPON FOR A FREE SMALL BOX OF POPCORN
All volunteers will receive a Coupon for a free small box of popcorn to enjoy compliments of Film.ca Cinemas at their movie theatre located on Speers Road between Kerr Street and Dorval Drive. Please support this community-based theatre year-round and enjoy the magic of movies!
THE EVENT PROCEEDS RAIN OR SHINE
“The earth and all living things need our care and protection. We thank everyone for their past and continuing involvement in Oakville’s annual Earth Day Clean Up and encourage new residents to join in this spring,” he added.
“Please contact the organizers at (905) 849-5501 and/or info@oakvillepeacecentre.org for more information, to get involved or to organize your own new Clean Up site. Strive to make every day an Earth Day,” concluded Stephen Dankowich, the Event Coordinator who has been organizing this event with his youngest brother Paul Dankowich for all these many years. “It’s been and remains a real joy to organize this campaign. The results accomplished by the broader Oakville community makes this campaign the joy it is to organize. Oakville really pitches-in for the environment. Thank you for keeping the Clean Up campaign going and growing,” they said.
PLEASE SUPPORT THE ORGANIZERS BY VOLUNTEERING AND DONATING
This event is organized by the Oakville Community Centre for Peace, Ecology and Human Rights. We are an incorporated, HST registered, not-for-profit social movement organization founded in 1992. Oakville residents, students and seniors who want to participate in organizing campaigns in promotion of peace, ecology and human rights should contact us right away!
The Oakville Community Centre for Peace, Ecology and Human Rights (OCCPEHR) began as a chapter of the ACT for Disarmament Coalition (formerly Against Cruise Testing, ACT) in 1987.
SOME OF OUR PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS INCLUDE:
~ We maintained the independent, non-partisan storefront Oakville Peace Centre at 148 Kerr Street and Rebecca Street for fifteen years between 1992 and 2007.
~ OCCPEHR organized the Halton Eco Festival from 2001 to 2017, an environmental fair held at the Glen Abbey Community Centre.
~We were the original founders of the Halton Environmental Network (HEN), 2003 to 2007.
~ We promoted the Oakville Carolinian Canada Awareness Project in the early 2000’s.
~ We headquartered the International Campaign for the Innu and the Earth (ICIE) at our Peace Centre in the successful campaign to stop NATO’s low level military flight training in Labrador and Quebec.
~ As well, we headquartered the Canadian Campaign To Free Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli whistle blower who in 1986 revealed Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons built at an underground facility in the Negev desert where he worked as a junior technician.
~ We are members of the International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the Nobel Peace Prize winning organization.
~ We helped organize the annual Oakville Peace Festival from 1987 to 2010.
~ All in all, we have organized over 200 community events in support and promotion of peace, ecology and human rights.
Please note that we are currently seeking new Board Members to pitch-in and help us to organize community events now and into the future. How about you? Please step up. We look forward to receiving notice of your interest. Peace, ecology and human rights needs your ideas and energy.
Memberships are $20 for individuals and students, $100 for supportive organizations. Your support will help us to accomplish more, thank you very much.
Thank you very much for pitching-in and supporting Earth Day!