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Volunteers: May 18 and 21 help with Troop 966’s Butterfly Waystation

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The patch we’re calling the Helen Casey Memorial Garden is at the corner of South Sterling Boulevard and East Staunton Avenue.  THE PLANTS are almost in! Milkweed plus some other tasty treats for these beauties.

 

We need volunteers for two stages of work tentatively planned this week:

  1. Mowing and weedwhacking Thursday, May 18 (8:30 a.m. onwards, scouts will join in the evening after school)
  2. Planting Sunday, May 21 (9:00 a.m. onwards.)

You can join by showing up! Questions please contact our Chairman Aaron Gilman directly at 571-212-0378.  [Update 5/18 – Aaron’s phone may not work so try Jon Carter at 571-449-7686]

Sterling Project Clean Stream a Success!

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Click on the photo below to see the fun album from a successful Sterling Project Clean Stream on April 29!

Keep Loudoun Beautiful have a free canoe-based watershed cleanup coming on May 13. If you missed our cleanup, you can still help keep trash out of our streams and Chesapeake Bay!

We’re waiting on one final number from VDOT for the solid waste weight.

Got the word from VDOT on Cinco de Mayo. For the trash bags and other solid waste:

On May 5, 2017 10:00, “Compton, Jerry A. (VDOT)” <Jerry.Compton@vdot.virginia.gov> wrote:

Harriet

I got your total of Debris that you guy’s picked up from the stream in sterling  it was a Grand total of 10.0 tons

  • 55 volunteers!
    • 11 from Annapolis-based Johnson Controls
    • 17 from PVHS
    • 13 from Sterling Foundation
    • 14 neighbors, including 8 children
  • 2 miles of stream
  • 1000 lbs of metal
  • 55 bags of trash (part of the 10 tons)
  • 22 bags of recycling ~200 lbs
  • Additional miscellaneous solid waste (the other part of the 10 tons)
    • 4 tires
    • 2 TVs
    • 18 sports balls (soccer, football, softball – you name it!)
    • Part of a 1960s-plated car trailer
    • 1 sectional couch
    • 1 set of household windows
    • 1 mattress
    • 3 car batteries

…all this is longer clogging up Cabin Branch creek! THANK YOU to all our sponsors and partners:

  • Joe’s Pizzaria Sterling Park
  • Jordan’s Junk Removal Sterling Park
  • Harris Teeter Cascades
  • Safeway Sterling Park
  • Copy General Sterling
  • Allegra Signs Dulles
  • Mom’s Organic Market (MOM’s) Herndon
  • Park View High School (students and teachers)
    • Campus Program
    • National Honor Society
    • Mu Alpha Theta
  • Loudoun County Public Schools – Guilford Elementary School
  • Keep Loudoun Beautiful and SemperTech
  • Supervisor Koran Saines’ office
  • Loudoun County Mapping (especially Kristin Brown)
  • Sterling Community Center (Loudoun County Parks and Recreation Services)
  • The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
    • MOM’s
    • Dominion
    • Purdue
    • BGS

GiveChoose is here!

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Please consider taking part in the fundraising marathon today by supporting the Sterling Foundation at any amount!

 

When you’ve done that, click on the group photo below the fun album from this weekend’s Sterling Project Clean Stream! 60 volunteers removed 1000 lbs of metal, 55 bags of trash, 22 bags of recycling, tires, TVs, part of a car trailer, a sectional couch, a mattress, and 3 car batteries from Cabin Branch creek! THANK YOU to all our sponsors and partners.

Spring 2017 Newsletter: So Fresh, So Clean!

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Check out our upcoming fundraisers, find out where to recycle those piles of plastic bags you’ve been using as insulation all winter, discover a link to the Project Clean Stream signup, and put some bounce in your step with Joan’s column!

Read it all and sign up to get it by email here!

 

 

Project Clean Stream finds a site in Sterling

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We’re getting together to clean the Cabin Branch tributary that runs across Sterling Boulevard at Greenthorn/Staunton.

UPDATE!   Signups now open: https://pg-cloud.com/ACB/?layer=registered-events&id=36    (Click “Volunteer”)

Project Clean Stream in Sterling is April 29th. Raindate April 30.

You can easily share the registration link, along with current photos and information, using our Project Clean Stream Facebook event.

We will contact group leaders directly with full details, using a list from the registration page:

  • Registration is not a commitment to attend. It helps us contact you easily and estimate numbers.
  • You can register as a leader of a group.

 

4/11: We have a start point and our full event web page is UP!

4/6: Foundation volunteers are working on some logistical details for the day, and contacting local partners. Interested in business sponsorship (in-kind snacks or cleanup materials welcome!) ? Email sparkvirginia@gmail.com

Find out more about Project Clean Stream via the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay:
http://cleanstream.allianceforthebay.org

 

Hi there!

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We’ve switched web providers and are working hard to update all our content. We’re looking forward to setting up a web membership form and payment function, before integrating the SterlingFest site and those vendor signups.

Thanks for your patience while we do this spring cleaning! You can always check in on Facebook for upcoming events – next up is Wednesday’s Feel The Heat February fundraiser !