Get ready for Earth Week!

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ROYAL AIR FORCE LAKENHEATH, England --  Earth Week is a week of events to include educational displays, clean-up projects and other activities which highlight conservation, preservation and protection of our natural environment.Earth Day 2011 is April 22 and marks the culmination of Earth Week.

This year's Air Force Earth Day theme is: "Conserve today. Secure tomorrow."

Earth Day has been celebrated in partnership with RAFs Mildenhall and Lakenheath over the past 14 years. This year, Earth Week starts April 16, and kicks off with the Earth Week Fair, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the RAF Mildenhall Exchange.

There will be a craft table, face painting and a quiz for children, and information booths, along with free educational materials, including pencils, pens, Earth Day plant pots and seeds, and magnets.

Other Earth Week events are as follows:

April 17: A conservation event is being held at West Stow Country Park, starting at 1 p.m. This event is a clean-up project, and volunteers (both adults and children) are needed to help place chippings along a sandy path around a landscaped bank of the lake and put up a 90-foot stretch of fencing next to the lake. Tools should be picked up from the visitors' center at West Stow. Volunteers will not have to pay the park entry fee.

April 18: Story-reading will be at the RAF Lakenheath Child Development Center at 9:30 and 10 a.m. There will also be a base clean up during the day. A skip will be placed near the 100th Security Forces Squadron dormitory April 18 to 20, and is available for Airmen to dispose of old televisions and electronic goods. Please note, the skip must not be used to dispose of items from workcenters.

April 19: There will be seed planting and T-shirt stamping at the RAF Mildenhall Child Development Center. Also, there will also be story-reading at the RAF Lakenheath Child Development Center at 9:30 and 10 a.m.

April 20: Official tree planting by commanders, at 11:30 a.m. in Washington Square here. There will also be story-reading at the RAF Lakenheath Child Development Center at 9:30, 10 and 10:30 a.m. A "Dirty Sock" contest will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at RAF Lakenheath Defender Park parking lot (near Gate 1). A sock will be placed over the vehicle exhaust while the engine is running, and the cleanest one wins a free car wash.

Anyone wishing to volunteer for any of the above events, or for more information, call Mary-Ann Haberman at 238-5652 or Hazel Neal at 226-0454.

Information courtesy of the 100th and 48th Civil Engineer Squadron Environmental Flights