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Earth Day events at Shaw

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  • By Ronnie June
  • 20th Civil Engineer Squadron
SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. --  Shaw will join in the celebration of Earth Day April 22. Everyone is invited to be a part of the celebration as there are special events planned throughout the day. 

The day's events include: 

The movie "After the Storm" is showing at 9, 10 and 11 a.m. in the education center. The 22-minute movie highlights three case studies where polluted runoff threatens watersheds that are highly valued for recreation, commercial fisheries and drinking water. Key scientists, water quality experts and citizens involved in local and national watershed protection efforts provide insight into the problems as well as solutions to today's water quality challenges. 

From 1-4 p.m., volunteers will mark curbs near storm drains on base with information to remind others not to pollute our waterways by discarding materials into the storm drains that flow to our waterways. Anyone wanting to participate should meet at the Carolina Skies Club parking lot facing the MPF. 

The day's events conclude from 5-7 p.m. at a free pulled-pork barbecue supper with a live band outside the Carolina Skies Club. 

Earth Day, which began in 1970, is the largest common secular observance in the world. According to Earth Day Network, it is celebrated by more than a half billion people every year. 

In September 1969 at a conference in Seattle, Wash., Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin announced there would be a nationwide grassroots demonstration on the environment the following spring. Senator Nelson first proposed the nationwide environmental protest to thrust the environment onto the national agenda. 

Earth Day marks the beginning of the modern environmental movement April 22, 1970. Approximately 20 million Americans participated with a goal of presenting a healthy, sustainable environment. Earth Day 2007 was one of the largest Earth Days to date, with an estimated billion people involved in some way.