Volunteers Invited to Our May 18 Stream Clean-Up

Besides helping America’s most vulnerable boys and girls, we are also going to beautify the environment on May 18 by clearing the stream near our headquarters of bottles, paper and other debris.

You are all invited to roll up your sleeves and join us, Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)/Prince George’s County, a nonprofit begun in 2001 to help lift foster children out of poverty by recruiting, training and supervising volunteers to serve as their voices for change.

“Together, we can and do make a difference with our foster children, and on May 18, we can and will make a difference with our environment,” said Ann Marie Binsner, executive director of CASA/Prince George’s County.

This is the second year of “CASA in the Community: Stream Cleanup,” which will take place 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Our staff will work with community volunteers to clean the stream, which is part of the Anacostia Watershed and flows within a stone’s throw of our headquarters in the Douglas Development Corp.’s “Jemal’s Calvert” Office Building at 6811 Kenilworth Avenue, Riverdale, Md.

Douglas Development Corp. will provide lunch while the Prince George’s County Department for Environment and the Alice Ferguson Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to environmental protection, will provide supplies.

Dannielle Glaros, vice chair of the Prince George’s County Council, will be represented at the cleanup by her chief of staff, Aimee Olivo.

“We are thankful for support from both the private and public sector,” said Binsner. “Working together is the key to success.”

For more information about the Stream Clean-Up or CASA/Prince George’s County, please call (301) 209-0491, email staff@pgcasa.org or visit www.pgcasa.org.