Friday, April 14, 2000
Feline to lead cleanup
Mascot's message: 'Use the box!'
BY Cindy Schroeder
The Cincinnati Enquirer
COVINGTON — Local organizers of the Great American Cleanup hope to draw about 250 volunteers Saturday, with a little help from a new anti-litter mascot.
Posters of the Covington Clean Cat bearing the message “Don't Litter. Use the box!” have been distributed throughout Covington.
“We adopted the idea of the Covington Clean Cat out of a planning session,” said Chuck Eilerman, cleanup organizer and president of the Friends of Covington, which is co-sponsoring the cleanup with the Covington Business Council, the Covington Com munity Center and the city. “Cats are clean, and they use litter boxes.”
“One of the main goals of this campaign is to make it accessible to people of all ages,” said Rachel DeLugish, the neighborhood de velopment specialist at the Covington Community Center who developed the Clean Cat logo. “If you're taught to pick up after yourself and others when you're younger, you develop a lifelong habit.”
Mr. Eilerman said 12 neighborhood and community groups will fan out across Covington at 9 a.m. Saturday to begin the three-hour cleanup. For information on cleanup sites, volunteers can call Mary Turgi, neighborhood development coordinator, at the Covington Community Center, 491-2220, ext. 28.
At noon, the city will host a free picnic lunch for participants in Goebel Park, complete with a special appearance from the Clean Cat (also known as Holmes freshman Brian Dew) himself, who will pass out T-shirts to volunteers.
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