Lose The Litter Day April 5

The Newtown Lions Club will sponsor Newtown’s 18th Lose the Litter Day on Saturday, April 5, from 9 am to 1 pm, with a rain date of April 12.

Residents will have the opportunity to clean up roadsides in town. Volunteers may pick up bags and gloves at the Newtown Middle School from 9 am to 1 pm on the day of the event, although the actual cleanup may be done at any time during the day.

Volunteers may select a particular road or they may be assigned a road on the day of the event. Participants who find one of the coveted “golden cans” will win tickets to the movies at the Edmond Town Hall. The collected litter collected may be dropped off at the Highway Department.

Judy Holmes and the Newtown Environmental Action Team, which ran the program for the first six years, had started Lose the Litter day, and the Lions have continued the project in recent years.

The Lions are looking for individuals to act as road captains to line up volunteers for the event. Anyone interested in more information or in volunteering for a particular road may call Lincoln Sander at 364-1833.