This is a Cache In Trash Out event to help clean up "Lake" LouEmma! This will be our 3rd year in this location and each year we make a big difference! This CITO will fall on the official International Geocaching CITO weekend (April 25th and 26th). You will earn a souvenir for this event!
We will meet at the lake at the above coordinates at 9 a.m. And should end by 11 a.m. I will have the CITO logbook here to sign and if you have trackables to trade, please feel free to bring them. Chris and I will bring some donuts, if anyone feels like bringing juice or school milks I'm sure no one would be opposed. Just let us know in your log. Please log your will attend so we can plan accordingly. :D
You might also want to bring work gloves, hand sanitizer, and the long reach trash grabbers/picker-uppers. I will have a first aid kit on hand. I highly suggest enclosed shoes, there are venomous creepy crawlies out here, I've seen them when fishing. Since we will be around water, let me share my little saying with you regarding cottonmouths/water moccasins and regular ole non-venomous water snakes. "Up on top stops the clock, down below you're good to go". Water moccasins keep their whole body on top of the water when they swim (although they can swim below water as well) but when they're swimming on top their whole body is on top. Non venomous water snakes, swim with only their head sticking out and their body down below the water. Just a handy saying from me to you. ;)
Keep Van Buren Beautiful (KVBB) should provide some gloves, trash bags and maybe even t-shirts!
There are also some nearby caches so feel free to grab those too, while you're grabbing trash!
The weekend before on the 18th, KVBB will host other events. The local junior high will be cleaning city park and there is an e-waste event for those of you who have old computer stuff at the bus barn in Industrial park.