A three-month project to clean up Iowa’s waterways, roadways and neighborhoods will launch this week, and more helpers are needed. Andy Frantz, executive director of Keep Iowa Beautiful, says the annual “Pick-Up Iowa” program aims to recruit 25-hundred volunteers statewide to aid in picking up litter and sprucing up our state.
“We are absolutely looking for volunteers and groups to come out and help pick up their communities,” Frantz says. “Our actual program runs from April 1st to the end of June, but we go year-round in trying to beautify the state of Iowa.” People can register as individuals at the website Keep Iowa Beautiful-dot-org, but he says groups large and small are gaining in popularity every year.
