Keep America Beautiful, Inc. Volunteers
Prepare Southside Park for Summer Season

Local AT&T Wireless Employees Will Work on April 22, 2004

Sacramento, California, April 20, 2004 – Local volunteers from AT&T Wireless will clean up Southside Park and Southside Accessible Playground site on Thursday, April 22, 2004 as part of Keep America Beautiful, Inc.’s Great American Cleanup. About two dozen employees will work from 9 a.m. to noon painting the exterior of the Southside pool building, rehabilitating the park perimeter jogging trail, planting annual flowers at Southside Clubhouse, picking up litter, and sanding and repainting benches.

The City of Sacramento Department of Parks and Recreation will receive a $2,000 grant from Keep American Beautiful for hosting the Southside Park cleanup. Most of the grant will help fund the new accessible playground. This is the first Keep American Beautiful project hosted by the City of Sacramento.

The Southside cleanup project is part of an Earth Day initiative in which AT&T Wireless employees are volunteering in 12 cities across the United States. Keep America Beautiful, Inc., is the nation's largest community improvement network and has sponsored projects for more than 50 years. The Great American Cleanup is the nation's largest annual community improvement program. More than 2.3 million volunteers will participate in 30,000 cleanup, green-up and fix-up events in 14,000 communities between March 1 and May 31.

The news media is invited to attend this event. For further information on this event, please contact Parks and Recreation staff member Teresa Roche at (916) 277-3818.