[ADEQ Media] ADEQ Director Owens Announces Recycling Grants for 22 Arizona Little League Programs

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ADEQ Director Owens Announces Recycling Grants for 22 Arizona Little
League Programs

PHOENIX (March 25, 2008) - Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Director Steve Owens announced today that ADEQ has awarded 22 grants
totaling $11,000 to Little League baseball programs in 10 Arizona
counties as part of the agency's Little League Recycling and Litter
Control project.

The grants provide money for banners promoting recycling displayed at
baseball fields and for recycling containers to be placed at the fields.


ADEQ's Little League Recycling grant program is now in its fifth year,
with grants awarded to Little League programs throughout the state for
recycling and litter clean up.

"This program has been incredibly successful," Director Owens said.
"It's a home run.  The more kids know about recycling, the more they
want to recycle. This program helps our kids, helps the Little Leagues,
and most importantly, helps the environment."


ADEQ gives each Little League $200 per field under the program.  The
grants, per county, are as follows:

Apache County - St. Johns Little League District 1, St. Johns, $600
Coconino County- Coconino Little League, Flagstaff, $400
Maricopa County - Fourpeaks Little League District 7, Mesa, $600;
Holiday Park Little League, Glendale, $600; Manzanita BallClub, Phoenix,
$600; McDowell Mountain Little League District 6, Phoenix, $600;
Mountain View Softball Little League District 7, Mesa, $200; Red
Mountain National Little League, Mesa, $200; Royal Palm Orangewood
Little League District 3, Phoenix, $200; Tempe Rio Salado Little League
District 13, $600
Mohave County - Mohave Valley Little League, $200, Mohave Valley
Navajo County - Holbrook Little League District 1, Holbrook, $400;
Pinetop-Lakeside Blue Ridge Little League, $600, Pinetop-Lakeside;
Taylor Little League, $600, Taylor
Pima County - Sunnyside Little League District 12, $600, Tucson
Pinal County- Casa Grande Little League, $600, Casa Grande; Coolidge
Little League, $600, Coolidge; Florence Little League, $600, Florence;
Maricopa Little League District 4, $600, Maricopa
Santa Cruz County - Rio Rico Little League, $400, Rio Rico
Yavapai County - Verde Valley Little League District 1, $600, Cottonwood
Yuma County  - San Luis Little League, $600, San Luis
  
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News media interested in additional information on this or any other
topic concerning the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality should
contact the Office of Communications at (602) 771-2215 or via email at
communications@azdeq.gov.

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