Los Angeles program kick off to feature city-wide clean up, green up and fix up activities
TORRANCE, Calif. - Feb 22
American Honda Motor Co., Inc., announced today that it will work with Keep
America Beautiful® to sponsor a series of local clean up activities in Los
Angeles, New York and Gulfport, Mississippi from March through May. The series
of events will kick off with a Keep Los Angeles Beautiful clean up rally on
Saturday, March 3, 2007 on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall. With help from
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and a representative from the White House, American
Honda will offer its support to volunteers as they plant trees and flowers,
remove graffiti, pick up litter and recycle around various parts of the city
utilizing Honda's eco-friendly Civic Hybrids.
Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup™ is one of the
largest annual grassroots programs committed to community improvement and education.
As the official 2007 national automobile manufacturer sponsor of the Great American
Cleanup, American Honda will support the organization's more than 2 million
volunteers in 14,000 communities actively participating in 30,000 events dedicated
to cleaning up and beautifying the environment across the nation.
"We are proud to support the Keep America Beautiful program to help our
local communities stay clean and green," said Dick Colliver, executive
vice president of American Honda Motor Co., Inc. "Honda prides itself
on offering environmentally-responsible products like the Accord Hybrid, Civic
GX natural gas vehicle and Civic Hybrid, and this project is consistent with
our corporate philosophy."
To aid in spreading the word about the Keep America Beautiful's Great
American Cleanup, American Honda is working with more than 100 of its local
Honda dealers to provide information on clean up volunteer opportunities throughout
the United States. The clean up event date for areas of Gulfport affected by
Hurricane Katrina will be March 20, followed by April 24 for the New York City
efforts in the five local boroughs.
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Sweepstakes rules, volunteer opportunities and additional information on American
Honda's involvement with Keep America Beautiful's Great American
Cleanup program are available at www.HondaCleanup.com. For more information
and downloadable high-resolution images of Honda vehicles, please visit www.HondaNews.com.
Consumer information is available at www.honda.com.