{"id":77313,"date":"2017-01-29T21:50:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T02:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=77313"},"modified":"2017-01-28T17:59:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T22:59:16","slug":"canal-clean-sweep-2017-join-us-earth-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=77313","title":{"rendered":"Canal Clean Sweep 2017: Join us Earth Day weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"download\"<\/a>Celebrate Earth Day\u00a0&\u00a0the Erie Canal bicentennial organize an event for the\u00a02017\u00a0Canal Clean Sweep\u00a0April 21 through 23<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Event registration is now open for the 2017 Canal Clean Sweep.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The NYS Canal Corporation and Parks & Trails New York once again request\u00a0your participation in\u00a0Canal Clean Sweep, the annual “spring cleaning”\u00a0for New York’s\u00a0Canal and Canalway Trail system. For the past 11 years, participation from supporters like you\u00a0and civic\u00a0groups across the state\u00a0has\u00a0allowed Canal Clean Sweep to make a great impact for this treasured community resource.<\/p>\n

This year’s event will take place Friday-Sunday, April 21-23<\/span><\/span>, Earth Day weekend.\u00a0Besides being a great way to celebrate Earth Day, Clean Sweep will help kick-off\u00a0the 193rd\u00a0consecutive navigation season on the New York State Canal System, and the first year of the Erie Canal Bicentennial celebration!<\/u><\/p>\n

Register your event now<\/h4>\n

We’re aiming to make the\u00a012th annual Canal Clean Sweep\u00a0the most successful yet. That’s why we are asking organizers to register<\/a>\u00a0events now<\/strong>. As soon as we have your event details, we’ll post them to our Event Finder Map, and you can begin recruiting volunteers.<\/p>\n

You may already have a group of volunteers in mind, but by posting your event on the map, you can attract a whole new set of volunteers\u00a0to Canal Clean Sweep. If you decide that your event will be open to the public, interested volunteers will be able to join your event directly through the Event Finder Map or by selecting your event on the online volunteer registration form.<\/p>\n

We can help make your event a success<\/h4>\n

We provide\u00a0up-to-date event information, including posting all event details to the Event Finder Map on the Clean Sweep page<\/a>, and assisting\u00a0potential volunteers in finding the event that is most convenient for them. We’ll also\u00a0promote your event with statewide press releases and will provide you with a template to tailor to local media. Organizing groups will receive free Canal Clean Sweep T-shirts,\u00a0trash bags, and\u00a0disposal of collected and bagged trash.<\/p>\n

New registration tools<\/h4>\n

PTNY’s updated\u00a0online registration\u00a0system automatically alerts event organizers of new volunteer registrations (for events open to public participation).<\/p>\n

Register your event now at the Canal Clean Sweep page<\/a>.\u00a0Volunteer registration will begin as soon as we have events on the map!<\/h4>\n

If you have any questions or would like further information on coordinating an event in your community, contact James Meerdink\u00a0at canalsweep@ptny.org<\/a> or (518) 434-1583<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrate Earth Day\u00a0&\u00a0the Erie Canal bicentennial organize an event for the\u00a02017\u00a0Canal Clean Sweep\u00a0April 21 through 23 Event registration is now open for the 2017 Canal Clean Sweep. The NYS Canal Corporation and Parks & Trails New York once again request\u00a0your participation in\u00a0Canal Clean Sweep, the annual “spring cleaning”\u00a0for New York’s\u00a0Canal and Canalway Trail system. For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23813,23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/download-1.png?fit=274%2C184&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-k6Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}