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Earth Day Round-Up
Start: 8:00 am
End: 8:00 pm

Earth Day is Tuesday, April 22, 2008

In Blount County, the Cities of Alcoa and Maryville along with Maryville College, The Little River Watershed Association, and many others are holding an Earth Round-Up on Saturday, April 19th, 2008.

The events begin at 8AM with a clean up of Little River and Blount County Roadways and culminate with festivities at the Maryville College Campus from 5PM to 8PM

Check out KnoxViews for more Earth Day/Month events in the East Tennessee area.

Blessings of the Animals
Start: 10:00 am
End: 1:00 pm

Saturday, April 19th 10am until 1pm
in the parking lot at Maryville First United Methodist Church at 804 Montvale Station Road (across from Maryville Middle School)

Be sure to bring your family and your pets,there are activities for every one including:

  • face painting
  • crafts for children
  • inflatable
  • Daisy the Clown
  • Petting Zoo
  • Drawings for Prizes
  • Sheriff's K-9 Unit
  • Animals Works
  • ArfNets
  • Knoxville Zoo
  • Blount CARE
  • Smoky Mountain Animal Care Foundation
  • Blount County Humane Society
  • H.A.B.I.T
  • Dog Bite Treats
  • And much more.....

Pet items as well as People items will be on sell by the different rescue groups to help their organizations care for the animals.
Also some of the rescues will have adoptable animals.

The Church will be collecting NEW stuffed animals to give to the children at East TN Hospital. If you would like to participate in this mission project please bring those to the event!

Let's Play!

Annual Earth Roundup
Start: 10:00 am
End: 2:00 pm

Residents invited to Annual Earth Roundup. The 2nd Annual Earth Roundup will be held on Saturday, April 19th beginning with the Little River Clean up that begins at 10 a.m. and lasts until 2 p.m. Call Keep Blount Beautiful at 681-4809 for more details. Then, beginning at 4 p.m., bring your family to Maryville College for food, activities, and information about a variety of environmental subjects how you can take steps to improve and conserve our most precious resources such as our rivers, air, and electricity. For more information on the entire event call, Cathy Rhodes, Little River Watershed, at 980-2130.

I came across this at the City of Maryville website and thought it worthy enough to post here. Link...
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