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If you don't know about it (which I'm sure you do) Preakness
Clean-up is this Sunday. We are desperate for help. Please read
this info. and let me know if you can help us. We are short-handed
this year and can use everyone's help.
Thanks!!
Holli

Preakness Clean-up 1999
Contact:	Mid-Atlantic Reptile Show (MARS) and MARS Preservation
Fund, Inc.
		Holli Friedland, Program Director 410-580-0250
To Be Held:	May 16, 1999, 6 a.m. - 12 p.m.
		Pimlico Racetrack, Baltimore, Maryland
	Put on your work gloves, some old comfortable shoes and sunscreen,
then come out and help us purchase and protect rainforest. We turn
trash into cash!
	It¹s a treasure hunt with a twist! Join us for Preakness Clean-up
1999, which is sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Reptile Show (MARS),
and MARS Preservation Fund, Inc., a non-profit 501(c)(3)
organization dedicated to saving rainforest. We will be at Pimlico
Racetrack just after sun-up with our friends from International
Amphibian Day, the National Aquarium in Baltimore, the National Zoo
and other volunteers to conduct our annual clean-up at Pimlico
Racetrack the day after the Preakness Stakes. All the proceeds from
our work and the sale of recycled aluminum cans go directly toward
the purchase and permanent protection of rainforest acreage in
Costa Rica.
    Last year we raised over $4,000. Over the past 9 years, more
than $69,000 has been raised to purchase 581 acres of rainforest in
Costa Rica¹s Talamanca Biosphere Reserve. This coastal reserve is
the home to thousands of species of mammals, birds, reptiles,
amphibians, and numerous other creatures. North American song birds
such as the Baltimore Oriole are known to migrate during the winter
to this region. This reserve also includes important nesting
beaches for endangered leatherback sea turtles and is the home to
many tropical frogs like the red-eyed tree frog and four species of
poison dart frogs.
    We pick up aluminum cans and trash from approximately 1/3 the
infield (an amount that will increase as volunteers sign-up). We
will once again have a picnic lunch and door prizes for volunteers
following the clean-up. All volunteers must be 16 years or older to
participate (16-17 year olds need a work permit).
    Please call Holli Friedland at 410-580-0250 for more
information or to sign up as a volunteer. Visit our web site at
www.reptileinfo.com for additional information. If you cannot be
there, but want to help, we will accept your tax-deductible
donation. All donations will go directly toward our land purchase.
Make your check payable to MARS Preservation Fund, Inc., (put
³Preakness Clean-up² in the memo section) P. O. Box 201,
Jarrettsville, Maryland 21084.