By Kyle Coppola
City of Tavares to Host Lake County Waterways Cleanup
Help keep the Lake County shorelines clean during the Lake County Waterways Cleanup on Saturday, Sept. 20 from 8am – 11am. This is a community effort to remove trash and debris from local waterways. This volunteer effort will happen at the Wooton Park West Boat Ramp, 400 South, Sinclair Avenue in Tavares.
Volunteering is easy. Those with boats will help clean the lakes and canals, while others on foot will collect litter at boat ramps and along walkable shorelines.
Recommended supplies:
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3- or 5-gallon buckets
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Reusable gloves
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Trash pickup device
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Reusable water bottles
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Comfortable shoes, a hat and sunscreen
Additional Tavares cleanup locations include:
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Tavares Recreation Park, 2030 W. Burleigh Blvd.
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Aesop’s Park, 501 E. Caroline St.
Can’t join on Saturday? You can still make a difference year-round. Trash in neighborhoods often ends up in local waterways, so cleaning streets and sidewalks also helps protect our lakes.
Kyle Coppola was born in Newton, Massachusetts and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communications from Curry College in 2016. After traveling to Florida on a family vacation, he decided he could not get enough of the warm weather and made the move from snowy Massachusetts to central Florida 8 years ago.
For the last decade Kyle has gained valuable experience in social media content creation, marketing and sales, writing, video production, sports announcing and even broadcasting for local radio stations, such as FM 102.9 in The Villages and FM 91.5 in Massachusetts. Every year he volunteers at The Villages Charter High School as a play-by-play sports announcer for the football games as well as a public address announcer for the basketball games, including the annual Battle at The Villages Tournament.
Outside the office Kyle is a husband and father to two beautiful girls along with their cat. In his spare time he likes to spend time with his family, travel, play golf and swim. He is also a huge sports junkie and even bigger motorsports fan and loves to attend racing events when he can.
