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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday March 30th, 2005
Landover, Md.
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Potomac River Watershed Clean Up Organizers Announce DC Diva's and Record-Breaking Volunteer Involvement for April 2

The Potomac River Watershed - the backyard of everyone in the Washington Metropolitan Region - will benefit from the effort of a record-breaking number of volunteers for the 17th Annual Potomac River Watershed Clean Up on Saturday, April 2, 2005, from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. The Clean Up, coordinated by the Alice Ferguson Foundation, drew more than 3,500 volunteers last year, at over 165 sites. This year, organizers are pushing to break previous records by mobilizing over 4,000 volunteers at over 200 Clean Up locations - and they need more.

Joining the clean up effort this year is the DC Divas National Women's Football Association Team. The Divas community involvement on clean up day will help promote this year's theme Take Pride in Our Potomac: It Starts in Your Backyard. The theme emphasizes that a healthy Potomac depends on what each of us does everywhere in the watershed - in our yards, our parks, playgrounds and our city streets - not just along the shoreline. The Divas are also generously providing a limited number of free tickets to volunteers.

The Clean Up is the widest-reaching event of its kind in the region. It is a growing coalition that reflects our backyard communities. Involvement ranges from major league sports teams, environmental organizations, military bases, businesses, civic associations, government agencies, senior citizen groups, youth groups, universities, elected officials and thousands of concerned citizens.

Alice Ferguson Foundation Coordinates the Annual Cleanup -- The Alice Ferguson Foundation is a nonprofit environmental education organization located on a 350-acre facility along the shores of the Potomac River, just ten miles south of Washington, D.C. It is dedicated to engaging K-12 children and teachers in innovative curriculum-based environmental education programs both at the Hard Bargain Farm Environmental Center and in the many national parks of the National Capital Region. The Foundation deals with a major ongoing trash problem along its shoreline, and plans to continue to work with regional leaders and citizens to plan for trash-free Potomac.

"Preventing a trash-filled river starts when citizens understand how pollution gets into the Potomac," said Wende Pearson, Clean Up coordinator with the Alice Ferguson Foundation. "Trash gets left on the ground, blown out of trash cans or dumped on the roadside where it then enters storm drains and eventually ends up in our Potomac River and our Chesapeake Bay, everyone who helps with the Clean Up learns this first-hand."

For more information contact:
Rich Daniel, D.C. Divas General Manager, gm@dcdivas.com, 240-676-5090
Wende Pearson, Alice Ferguson Foundation, http://www.potomaccleanup.org/, 301-292-5665

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