

A variety of opportunities are available. Future Service Projects Old Bowie Festivalįestival organizers are seeking volunteers for the Octoevent in Old Bowie. If you would like to volunteer, please register with Susan Proctor by September 3 at 30 or More projects will be posted as they become available. This activity is outside, volunteers should be able to stand and bend down for extended periods of time, use a scrub brush and thoroughly scrub stone surface. Staff will provide all volunteers with gloves and a scrub brush. Volunteers will be using a cleaning agent to remove the growth and need to be at least 18 years or older. moss) from the stone wall at Belair Mansion. The Historic Properties staff needs volunteers to assist with removing biological growth (i.e. If you would like to volunteer, please register with Tiffany Wright at 30 or Historic Properties Cleanup (Saturday, September 10) - CANCELED Note: if rain falls 24 hours before the event, the event will be canceled. Volunteers will then get supplies (adhesive, medallions, wire brush, and gloves) and walk through the neighborhood applying these markers to every storm drain.

Volunteers will meet staff in a neighborhood and do a quick training. This water does not get treated for pollutants before flowing into the Patuxent River and the Chesapeake Bay. These markers are four-inch round, stainless steel medallions that alert residents to the fact that rain and everything that enters that storm drain will be released into a stream. This family-friendly, accessible activity involves applying storm drain markers to storm drain inlets. Storm Drain Marking (Saturday, September 10) - CANCELED This event will be held on Saturday, September 10, 2022. For more information and to register for the event, contact Ashleigh Diaz at or 30. Volunteers should bring work gloves, a face mask, and wear long pants and long sleeves. Volunteers for this project must be 14 years of age, and accompanied by a parent or guardian if under the age of 16. Partnering with City of Bowie Green Team, volunteers will stop the assault on our forests of the non-native, invasive, English Ivy vine by pulling the vine off trees. September 11 Weekend Service Projects Weed Warriors (Saturday, September 10) The City will identify service projects that residents can participate in to honor the memory of the men, women and children who lost their lives on that sad day 20 years ago. We will continue that tradition by encouraging residents to volunteer in the community.

Volunteerism plays such a crucial role in our community. flags will be lowered to half staff at all City facilities and a city-wide moment of silence will be observed on Sunday at 8:46 a.m., which is when the first plane crashed into one of the Twin Towers. The City of Bowie will honor the lives of the nearly 3,000 Americans killed in the coordinated attacks upon the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, the Pentagon, and on the plane that went down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania by hosting a day of service on Saturday, September 10 through Sunday, September 11, 2022.
