Volunteer Opportunities
Pitch in as a single person or family or form your own Creek Cleanup Team. Anchorage Waterways Council provides lots of support, opportunities to succeed in the Trash Contest and a wonderful family friendly celebration. Here are the volunteer needs for 2010 with more information located below—sign up using the Anchorage Waterways Council’s online volunteer sign-up form here!
Honchos- host a clean-up site between 8:30-12:00. Meet and greet!
Teams- form a group, pick a site and mobilize!
Responders- pitch in on the day of Creek Cleanup when and where you are needed!
Elite Extreme Expeditors- venture into the places where other cleaners dare not to go! Return from your mission to partake in food and celebration!
Individual and Family Cleaners- show up, pick up and then enjoy the fun at Valley of the Moon!
Duties and commitment levels are explained below.
CREEK HONCHOS
Two Creek Honchos are stationed at each of the cleanup locations from 8:30am to 12:00 noon. These folks sign individual cleaners up, hand out bags and gloves, and direct traffic to areas along the creek that need to be picked-up. Honchos need to attend one meeting the week prior to the event and should also walk their section of the creek to scout for trashy areas.
CLEANUP TEAMS
Teams are formed by interested individuals and their co-workers or friends. You can have whomever you would like on your team and there can be any number of people you want. The Team Leader signs up their team by filling out the form on the volunteer sign-up form. You can select a specific location to work on or indicate no preference and we will assign you to an area of need. Team leaders will collect sign-in sheets to be filled out by each of their team members and will deliver them to the Honcho for their site on or before the day of the event. The Team Leader should also call the Honcho on the day of the event to check in. Team Leaders will need to come into the office during the week before the event to collect bags and gloves for their team.
RESPONDERS
These folks include runners who will be assigned several locations to assist. Runners need to use their own car and will have extra gloves, bags, and other items on hand. The runners will provide support to the Honchos from 9:00 till 12:00 on the morning of the event. Additionally we need some folks stationed at the Valley of the Moon Park from 9:00 to 3:00 on the day of the event to help in a variety of ways. We need folks to check-in the Honchos when they return, help set-up for the BBQ, man the trash awards table, etc.
ELITE EXTREME EXPEDITORS (E3)
This elite cadre of small groups ventures into areas of the creeks that require special attention and a spirit of adventure. For creek areas that are particularly remote and inaccessible to the majority of folks- the E3 teams are deployed to ensure that this special mission gets done. E3 teams are comprised of at least 2 people and will receive their briefing upon sign-up.
INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY CLEANERS
If you just want to come out to a creek and help pick up trash on the morning of the event then all you have to do is go to one of the locations listed on the Locations page at this site, sign-in with the Honcho, and go to it! Remember to attend the free BBQ at Valley of the Moon Park at 12:00 and enjoy the free food, a live band, and presentation of the coveted Trash Awards.