Cramond Angling Club

Keep Scotland Beautiful and West Lothian Council calls for volunteers to clean up River Almond from Livingston Rugby Club to the Civic Centre.

Keep Scotland Beautiful, and West Lothian Council is calling for the people of Livingston to don yellow tabards and help spring clean their local area of litter on April 24th 2010 at 10am-2pm.

Tired of the crisp bags, juice bottles and other litter that is spoiling River Almond at Livingston, Keep Scotland Beautiful and West Lothian Council decided to organise a clean up event as part of Keep Scotland Beautiful’s National Spring Clean 2010.

Ian Stewart said, “We want to encourage as many volunteers as possible to come and take part in our spring clean.  Litter removal from Scotland’s streets costs over £100million a year which could be spent on other services. We hope our clean up will show others that we have pride in Livingston and by working together we can take responsibility for our surroundings and show that dropping litter is unacceptable.”

Keep Scotland Beautiful and West Lothian Council will be joining hundreds of other community groups, schools, youth clubs, environmental organisations, voluntary groups, businesses and individuals who will be spring cleaning their local areas during April.

In fact, last April almost 60,000 volunteers took part in clean up events as part of Keep Scotland Beautiful’s National Spring Clean. And they gathered enough litter to fill 28,819 standard wheelie bins – proving that even each individual volunteer’s small contribution really does make a huge difference.

If you are looking for a fun, family day out this April 24th, why not join the tens of thousands of people taking part in National Spring Clean and put a bit of a sparkle back
into your local neighbourhood? For further press information please contact Ian Stewart, Environmental Warden, West Lothian Council on 01506 776485 ian.stewart@westlothian.gov.uk or Ian Young Flood Risk Management on 01506 776580 ian.young@westlothian.gov.uk.

National Spring Clean will take place throughout Scotland between 1st – 30th April 2010 and full details can be found at www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/springclean

The plan is to meet at the Cammo / Grotto Bridge Car Park at 8am and sort out willow island and see what can be done with the eroded bank (River level permitting), if you can’t make it for 8 am, then come along later and meet the members.

VOLUNTEERS WANTED

Please help us to clean up Marine Drive – western end, Edinburgh Foreshore for Keep Scotland Beautiful’s National Spring Clean, for more information click here.

Keep Scotland Beautiful is an operating name of Environmental Campaigns (Scotland).

Scottish Charity Number SCO30332.

Monday 19 April 2010 10:00am – 2:00pm, Meet at turning point at western end of Marine Drive For more information phone 0131 447 7145 or email countrysiderangers@edinburgh.gov.uk

FFWL have arranged Saturday April 3rd as a date for the event and the target area is Almond Pool at Kirkton.  I hope that some of you will be able to attend and support our friends in West Lothian and we can start to make a difference on the river and improve the situation for all.   This should be an easy place to start and the Council will be able to provide a suitable collection point as well as the necessary tools for the job.

Please let Douglas know if you are available for this event as it will make organising things with the Council much easier, you can register at http://flyfishingwestlothian.uinfix.co.uk/ffwl/content/sign-clean-3rd-april for this event.

SEPA have kindly agreed to host a Kick Sampling “training session” on the River Almond for Cramond Angling Club members.  If you are interested in attending the event then please drop me an E Mail treasurer@fishalmond.co.uk