MEDIA ADVISORY: Media Are Welcome April 20 and April 22
For more than a decade, Earth Day volunteers from Rutgers University-Newark have donated “green” service to their campus’s home city while creating bird- and butterfly-friendly habitats on campus and a green oasis in Newark’s concrete canyons. That tradition continues when volunteers from the RU-N community will first help beautify Norman Samuel Plaza on their campus on April 20. Then on April 22 volunteers will head to the Greater Newark Conservancy to prepare its gardens.
WHAT/WHEN/WHO:
- MONDAY, APRIL 20 (RAIN DATE APRIL 27), 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.: Volunteer students, faculty and staff will work with Greater Newark Conservancy experts to improve the existing sustainable gardens at RU-N, created during past Earth Day programs. Conservancy staff will provide materials and hands-on instructions. LOCATION: Norman Samuels Plaza (entrance from the Rutgers Arch on University Avenue between Bleeker Street and Warren Street)
- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 (RAIN DATE APRIL 29),11:30 -1 p.m. and 2:30 -4 p.m.: Volunteers will pitch in to plant, weed, rake, and mulch at the Greater Newark Conservancy, Prince Street near Springfield Avenue, Newark. (Shuttles available from the Golden Dome Athletic Center.)
BACKGROUND: Earth Day is yet another way that Rutgers gives back to the community, this time by making Newark more “green.” In past years RU-N volunteers have prepared the gardens at the Greater Newark Conservancy, and planted sustainable gardens, a native grasses garden and a bird pond at RU-N, all to create bird- and butterfly-friendly habitats on campus and a green oasis in Newark’s concrete canyons. Students also learn how to become environmental stewards. Information
MEDIA CONTACT: Carla Capizzi, 973 353 5263.
Photo: Student volunteers planting near University Square.
