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The City of Houston Joins Keep America Beautiful in a Green Starts Here Rally Honoring the National 2010 Great American Cleanup WHAT: Local dignitaries and personalities join national non-profit Keep America Beautiful for a kickoff celebration of the Great American Cleanup and the launch of Houston-area cleanup and beautification projects. This event spotlights the State of Texas’ involvement in the 2010 Great American Cleanup, which mobilizes millions of volunteers for 30,000 community improvement events in all 50 states from March 1st through May 31st. Keep Houston Beautiful (KHB) and Keep Texas Beautiful (KTB) recruited volunteers from across Texas, embracing the state’s spirit of camaraderie and pride. The “Green Starts Here” event is held to educate, as well as to clean and improve areas of Houston including Wiess and Memorial Parks, Pro-Vision School, Denver Harbor and the Westbury and Acres Homes neighborhoods. WHEN: Friday, March 5, 2010 2:30 p.m.; Green Starts Here Rally Saturday, March 6, 2010 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.; Cleanup and beautification projects across Houston WHERE: Green Starts Here Rally: Sam Houston Park, behind Houston City Hall, 1100 Bagby St., 77002 SELECT CLEANUP LOCATIONS: Tree planting in Wiess Park , 300 N Post Oak Lane, 77024 Invasive plant removal at Memorial Park , 6402 Arnot, 77007 Edible community garden planting at Pro-Vision School , 4590 Wilmington, 77051 Edible community garden planting in Westbury , 12691 Dunlap, 77035 Adding color to the Denver Harbor entrance esplanade , near Kress St. 691 Dunlap, 77035 and 1-10 across from Cliff Tuttle Park, 77020 Cleaning a ditch in Acres Homes, 900 Ferguson Way, 77088 CONTACT: Jill Greenwood jgreenwood@cjpcom.com

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