Community Cleanup Event To Beautify Yorkville Parks

YORKVILLE, IL—3:11 Project is looking to host its first community day of service in Yorkville. On Saturday, May 11, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., event organizers encourage the public to get involved by volunteering at one of several work sites.

At Hoover Forest Preserve, from 9 to 11 a.m., there will be informational and interactive stations. The public will find educations materials, games, crafts with recycled materials, make-and-take mini-insect hotels with University of Illinois Extension Master Gardeners, and the “Monarchs on the Move” activity with 4-H Teen Science Ambassadors. Also during the event, the Kendall County Forest Preserve will lead informational walk and prairie plantings.

Among the informational tables is one for environmentally friendly cleaning materials.

Also during the event, there will be various recycling or reuse collection stations for unused medicine disposal by Fox Metro, old eyeglasses by the Lions Club, Mascara Wands for Wildlife, cell phones for Mutual Ground, and Crayola ColorCycle for used marker collection.

Work will be performed at various locations in Yorkville. Projects include efforts to support Riverfront Park, the Yorkville Junior Womens Club Park, Kennedy Road Trail, and empty lots and roadsides.

For information or to sign up for a project, visit https://tinyurl.com/YorkvilleCommunityServiceDay.

If interested in joining the informational stations or sponsoring clean-up efforts, contact Katie Morton at mortonkate@comcast.net or 630-202-0901.