Each year, we take the time to reflect and celebrate on the work in the past year at our Annual General Meeting. Join us this year, Monday, November 16th at the Jadel Leadership Center at Camp Miakonda. The event begins at 6pm with dinner, review of the year’s programs and an Awards ceremony, including the […]
Partners for Clean Streams is constantly changing, like the rivers we protect. Our next big change is that we will be hiring 2 new part-time staff positions in the coming months. We are still working on the details of what each job will include but the work will focus on public relations and marketing, outreach, […]
As an auction item for Clean Your Streams Day, we asked Notre Dame Academy for some help in turning a Rain Barrel into art, hoping to encourage people to see how beautiful and practical rain barrels could be. The school rose to the challenge. Maria Basista, a junior at Notre Dame was assigned the project […]
Join us for the Annual General Meeting on Monday, November 16th, as we celebrate the success of 2015 at the Jaddell Center at Camp Miakonda. The event begins at 6:00pm. Following dinner, there will be a presentation highlighting all the work done this year and a sneak peak into next year’s plans. We will congratulate […]
NOAA’s Marine Debris Program is excited to announce the first annual Marine Debris Challenge for high school students in Ohio’s Ninth Congressional District! The contest is open to all students in grades 9-12 who are enrolled in recognized public, private, and home schools in Ohio Congressional District 9. Students must work in groups of 3 […]
Each year, we say “This year’s event was the best!” but this time, we mean it! While we are still tallying numbers and counting forms, we know we had 971 volunteers step up and clean amazing amounts of trash from 68 sites around the Toledo area from ditches, streams and rivers. 772 bags and 13,528 […]
Marine debris, or trash in our waterways, is a huge ongoing issue around the world. Even though volunteers remove tons of trash every year during our stream cleanup events, trash accumulates quickly in our waterways. In fact, various studies show that 5 to 12 million tons of plastic from the land goes into our oceans […]
Change for Change is a great opportunity for your CYS group to benefit our local rivers and streams. While Partners for Clean Streams is dedicated to the waterways of the greater Toledo area, we depend on your support. So as your group comes together for Clean Your Streams Day, we Challenge you to make some […]
Tired of all the trash along the streams? Be part of the solution with the 19th Annual Clean Your Streams Day event, northwest Ohio’s largest river cleanup! Registration is now open. The excitement starts with check-in between 8:00-8:30am. A brief orientation begins at 8:30am followed by cleanup instructions, safety tips and supply distribution. Following that, […]
Partners are wonderful, especially when one new partner snowballs into three great new partnerships! Sometimes, we have certain donors that step up and answer our call for help in an extraordinary ways. The most recent donors to step forward come in a combination of Charles Boyk Law, GreenSweep, and Deets BBQ. From a simple connection […]