Living Classrooms of the National Capital Region announces that nearly 200 youth and adults will participate in the Anacostia River Fall Clean Up along the shoreline of the Anacostia River on Friday, November 5, 2010. The clean up and educational activities will be held from 10:00 until 11:30 a.m. and will be followed by an awards ceremony and picnic lunch during which the organization will present its Living Legend Award to individuals with a vested interest and diligent work in the Anacostia River watershed and community.

Living Legend Award Winners
The 2010 award recipients include:

Environmental Protection Agency, Chuck Fox, Senior Advisor to the Administrator-Agency/Elected Official Winner
Tom Dernoga, Prince George’s Vice Chairman and Councilmember-Individual Winner
DC Water, George Hawkins, General Manager-Corporate Winner
Former winners have included Senator Ben Cardin, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, PEPCO, Shell Hydrogen, Honda North American, James Connolly, Dottie Yunger and Gilda Allen.

The clean up, hosted by Living Classrooms of the National Capital Region, the Anacostia Riverkeeper, the Anacostia Watershed Society, Verizon and the American Chemistry Council, will begin at 9:00 a.m. near Kingman Island on Parking Lot 6 at RFK Stadium in Northeast, DC. The purpose of the event will be to educate youth about the enormous impact that debris has on the health of the Anacostia River, which receives more than 20,000 tons of trash annually. Participants will include students and teachers from area schools, elected officials, representatives from federal and state agencies, corporations, non-profit organizations and the event’s sponsoring corporations. “We are pleased to partner with Living Classrooms in helping to clean up the Anacostia River and to work with the community, especially our young people, to help protect the environment for future generations” said Keith Christman, Senior Director, Market Advocacy for the American Chemistry Council.