One Rake partners with One Bag

 Students will be coloring special reusable canvas shopping bags designed by Ed Velez and provided by the Kings Bay Rotary they can take home to use when their family goes shopping.  

 Art Jones will be there and will be doing a demonstration about One Rake at a Time. He will be in the water removing lyngbya and also raking out plastic shopping bags that have also ended up in King’s Bay. This will transition the service project to land with One Bag at a Time.  

Plastic shopping bags are ending up in the waters and land causing environmental harm. By using canvas shopping bags, each child can learn to be part of the solution in reducing needless litter associated with plastic shopping bags that are ending up polluting the Earth.

It is hoped parents will keep their children’s personal canvas bags and use them. Children will also be using litter sticks and picking up cigarette butts and other litter in Crystal River parks and earning hours that will benefit Keep Citrus County Beautiful in fulfilling their matching grant. KCCB will also be on hand serving fresh water in cups to discourage the use of bottled water. 

Glenn Parker of the Kings Bay Rotary is heading up the land project as part of a new service project to Keep Citrus County Green. Many more events are being planned to help with the litter problem in Crystal River, Citrus County and all of Florida.