Renew Our Rivers is a river cleanup campaign sponsored by Alabama Power. According to the company’s web site, the campaign began in 2000 and is now one of the largest programs of its type in the Southeast. Volunteers are always welcome, and there are two events in August. There will be a cleanup on the Upper Tallapoosa River on Aug. 8. For information, call Lex Brown at (256) 239-6399. There will be a cleanup at Holt Lake on Aug. 15, with a picnic lunch following at Rocky Branch Park in Peterson off Highway 216. Contact Mark Meador of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District at (205) 553-9373 or Kellie Johnston of the Black Warrior Clean Water Partnership at (205) 264-8461. For a full schedule of the remaining volunteer opportunities for 2009, go to www.alabamapower.com and search “renew our rivers.”

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