The Oakville Community Centre For Peace, Ecology and Human Rights

MEDIA RELEASE
Monday, April 28, 2025

Hundreds pitch-in to fill 900 bags of garbage at record Earth Day Clean Up in Oakville

The 34th annual Earth Day Clean Up in Oakville on Saturday, April 26th was its most successful ever.

Seventy-two nature sites were cleaned up by more than 1,200 volunteers who pitched-in to fill 900 garbage bags with collected waste.

Site Coordinators make this event a guaranteed success thanks to their dedicated participation. Of the seventy-two nature sites, a record thirty-three were staffed by representatives of various local organizations while fifty-five individuals welcomed volunteers as Site Coordinators at the thirty-nine other nature sites. Several other local groups pitched-in as a team at various sites, too.

In reports received from Site Coordinators, there is less and less garbage being found in the nature sites being cleaned up year after year now in this campaign. Together with the year round efforts of Parks employees, Parks Ambassadors, dog walkers and trails 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.

The event was sponsored by forty-four various organizations and primarily by the Town of Oakville’s Parks and Open Space Department, Halton Region Waste Management which provided for garbage bag collection right afterwards by Miller Waste, Film.ca Cinemas which provided free popcorn coupons for all volunteers, Panago Pizza on Neyagawa Boulevard which baked fifty pies enjoyed by clean up teams in north Oakville, and the Starbucks Coffee Company which provided a Traveller box of brewed coffee to forty-five various sites.

The annual Earth Day Clean Up has been organized since 1992 by the Oakville Community Centre for Peace, Ecology and Human Rights. For more information, please contact Executive Director Stephen Dankowich at info@oakvillepeacecentre.org or (905) 849-5501.

HERE IS THE LIST OF THE 2025 EARTH DAY CLEAN UP SITE COORDINATORS:
BY YEAR OF BECOMING A SITE COORDINATOR AND BY WARD+LOCATION

YEAR SITE COORDINATOR BY WARD AND LOCATION
1996 Friends of Bronte Creek Provincial Park (Joanne Wright), (W1) Bronte Creek Provincial Park
2015 Bronte Village Residents Association, (W1) Bronte Bluffs Park
2017 Peter Vandermyden (W1) Bronte Road at QEW Carpool
2017 Linda Zylik, Lauren Zylik (W1) Lakeshore Woods
2021 Lesley Manley McVean (W1) Bronte Harbour at East Street
2022 Emillie Kraft (W1) Burloak Drive and QEW
2023 Halton Outdoor Club (Susan Dane) (W1) Valleyridge Park and Trails
2024 Mahsa Yazdani (W1) South Shell Park and Trails

2002 Earl and Sharon Weise (W2) Hopedale Park
2003 South Peel Naturalists’ Club (Donna Sheppard) (W2) Indian Ridge Trail
2005 West River Residents Association (W2) Forster Park and Hogs Back Park
2010 Tracey Ehl Harrison and family (W2) Woodhaven Park and Sedgewick Park
2016 Erik Derakhshan and Ken Derakhshan, (W2) Glen Oak Creek Trail South at Monastery Drive
2017 Cathy Buchanan (W2) Aldercrest Park
2018 West Harbour Residents Association (W2) Burnet Street Park
2019 Seema and Pradeep Nambiar (W2) Coronation Park
2020 Dagmar Wilhelm and Ann Osana (W2) Kerr Street North at North Service Road
2025 Karla Cabrera and Rotary Club of Oakville (W2) Kinoak Arena and Brook Valley Park
2025 Kalli MacKeen, Oakville Parent Child Centre (W2) Old Abbey Lane Park

1999 Clearview Oakville Community Association (W3) Clearview Park and community
2012 Charterability (Stephen Cull) (W3) Busby Park
2013 Oakville Museum (W3) Lakeside Park
2014 Joshua Creek Residents Association (W3) Maple Grove Park and Trails
2019 Elite3 and Team (W3) Maple Grove Park and Trails
2022 Chartwell Maple Grove Residents Association (W3) Gairloch Gardens
2022 Trafalgar Chartwell Residents Association (W3) Oakville Curling Club
2023 Monica Malhotra; sons Nikhil, Josha & Jayen (W3) Perkins Passage
2023 St. Cuthbert’s Anglican (David Aylward) (W3) Dunvegan Park, Ardleigh Park
2025 Laura Murphy, Linbrook School (W3) Dunvegan Park, Ardleigh Park

2010 Sharon Brodner (W4) 16 Hollow Park and Trails
2011 Voula Caffrey and family (W4) Woodgate Woods
2013 Amy Young (W4) Ravine at Third Line and Upper Middle Road
2018 Glen Abbey Neighbourhood Association (Weidong Zhu) (W4) Heritage Way Park
2019 Bill and Marlene Keay (W4) Millstone Park
2019 Nicole and Paul Panabaker (W4) Glen Abbey Trail
2019 Denise Severin-Prior and Brett Prior (W4) Fourth Line and Upper Middle Road
2020 Stephen and Connie Wei (W4) Bloomfield Park
2022 Rashed Chowdhury (W4) Castlebrook Park
2022 Devnand Nambiar, Ontario Heroes (W4) Langtry Park
2022 Kimberley Sziraky (W4) Sandpiper Road at Pheasant Lane
2023 Federation of North American Explorers (David Kantor) (W4) Nottinghill Park
2023 Oakville Titans Football (Jennifer Horner) (W4) Arbourview Trail Park
2023 Raj Patel (W4) Stratus Parkway
2025 Sarah Bright (W4) Castlebrook Park

2011 Geoff and Mary Hospital (W5) River Glen Park
2015 Michelle and Jeff Sholdice (W5) Oxford Park
2016 Dave and Liz Stefan (W5) Munns Creek Park and Margot Street Park
2019 Councillor Jeff Knoll and Film.ca Cinemas (W5) Memorial Park
2022 Laura Shaw (W5) Harman Gate Park
2022 Treetops Estate (Stephane Dagenais, Peter Watson) (W5) Sheridan College
2023 Birds Nest Centre (Joanna Hamara) (W5) Neyagawa Park
2023 Green Party of Oakville (Bruno Sousa) (W5) Martindale Park
2024 Simon Mak (W5) Pelee Woods Park and Nipigon Trail
2025 Sharon Liu, 19th Oakville Beaver Scouts (W5) Pelee Woods Park and Nipigon Trail
2025 Oakville 1st Trafalgar Scouts (Bruno Sousa) (W5) Oakville Park

2002 Councillor Tom Adams (W6) Algrove Park
2012 Colin and Norma John (W6) Forest Glade Parkway
2013 Paul Butler (W6) Bayshire Woods Park
2016 Leslie Osborne (W6) The Brownstones
2017 Oakville Chinese Senior 99 Association (Jinglie Dou) (W6) Glenashton Park and Iroquois Ridge Community Centre
2023 Stephen Dankowich (W6) Valleybrook Park
2024 Elite3 and Team (W6) Pinery Park
2025 Elite3 and Team (W6) Lyndhurst Park
2025 Pauline Gyorkos (W6) Valleybrook Park
2025 Leena Bukhari + Areej Waqar; Islamic Community (W6) Glenashton Drive Bridge and Ravines

2017 Islamic Centre of North America (Oakville) (W7) Lions Valley Park
2018 Mamta Rosha (W7) Isaac Park
2019 Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (Arpit Mittal) (W7) Palermo Park
2023 Serguei and Natalia Doubov (W7) Gladeside Park, Neyagawa Wood Park, Shannon Creek N Trail
2023 North Oakville Ward 7 Residents Association (W7) George Savage Park (Councillors Scott Xie and Nav Nanda)
2023 Oakvillegreen Conservation Association (W7) Preserve Woods Park
2023 Ajaypal Rosha (W7) Fowley Park
2023 Sehaj Rosha (W7) William Rose Park

~ This is a record of the current list of Site Coordinators and the year they became the Site Coordinator at that location.
~ Please note that many locations have had other Site Coordinators staffing that location in years prior to that listed.
~ There have been an additional 128 people who have been Site Coordinators in the past, probably more!
~ In 2025, there are 84 Site Coordinators responsible for sixty-nine Clean Up sites.
~ That’s a total of 212 Site Coordinators since 1992!

~ The dedication and devotion of Site Coordinators to this community-wide eco event is evident in the number of consecutive years of service that they have contributed to the betterment of our community.
~ The involvement of Site Coordinators has served to ensure a successful Earth Day Clean Up year after year now for 34 years! ~ Thanks again, Site Coordinators.
~ Clean Up Site Coordinators are doing a great job as the public face of and the backbone of this campaign “For a clean, green, litter-free Oakville!”

The 34th annual Earth Day Clean Up of Oakville Nature Sites
on Saturday, April 26, 2025 is organized by the:
Oakville Community Centre for Peace, Ecology and Human Rights (OCCPEHR),
P.O. Box 52007, Oakville, ON L6J 7N5,
(905) 849-5501, info@oakvillepeacecentre.org, oakvillepeacecentre.org

Sponsors of the 2025 Earth Day Clean Up:
By Years of Sponsorship

This year, there are 44 local Oakville organizations sponsoring the Clean Up.

It’s GREAT to have so many longstanding supporters in our community. Their consistent support has allowed this campaign to grow and flourish into one of the most successful Earth Day Clean Up’s in Canada on a per capita basis. Thank you very much, Sponsors!

32 YEARS
~Appleby College
~Women of Halton Action Movement (WHAM)

31 YEARS
~Cyclepath

28 YEARS
~Anglican Church of the Incarnation

27 YEARS
~Friends of Bronte Creek Park
~Progenic Dental Laboratory
~Ratelle Communications
~The Classic Tile Centre
~Town of Oakville Parks & Open Space Department

26 YEARS
~Halton Region Waste Management
~Oakville Fish & Chips
~Sobeys (Abbey Plaza)
~Sobeys (Maple Grove Village)

24 YEARS
~Clearview Oakville Community Alliance (COCA)

23 YEARS
~Carstar Oakville
~Dentistry on Dunn
~South Peel Naturalists’ Club

22 YEARS
~Brock’s General Contracting

21 YEARS
~Oakville Market

20 YEARS
~Kopriva Taylor Community Funeral Home
~Oakville Blueprinting & Copy Centre
~Way Cool Tattoos

19 YEARS
~Dearcroft Montessori School
~Flooringca.com
~West River Residents Association (WRRA)

17 YEARS
~Boyle Chiropractic and Wellness Centre
~St. Jude’s Anglican Church

14 YEARS
~Joshua Creek Residents Association (JCRA)

12 YEARS
~Starbucks
~West Harbour Residents Association (WHRA)

11 YEARS
~Remax Broker Paul Butler

8 YEARS
~Ehl Harrison Consulting

7 YEARS
~Film.ca Cinemas
~Simply Green Baby

6 YEARS
~Bark & Fitz (Oakville North on Dundas Street)
~Metro (Upper Oakville at Eighth Line)

5 YEARS
~Glen Abbey Neighbourhood Association (GANA)

4 YEARS
~Chartwell Maple Grove Residents Association (CMGRA)
~Elite3 and Team Real Estate
~Maple Grove United Church
~Trafalgar Chartwell Residents Association (TCRA)

2 YEARS
~Panago Pizza (at Neyagawa & Dundas)

NEW SPONSOR
~Instant Imprints

How about your organization becoming a sponsor? Let’s keep it going for the environment!

THANK YOU SPONSORS, FOR SUPPORTING THE 2025 EARTH DAY CLEAN UP OF 70+ NATURE SITES IN OAKVILLE!