Capital Cruises Cares: Community Involvement
Community Involvement
Capital Cruises is a proud sponsor of KAB Clean Sweep 2010 to help clean Lady Bird Lake.
Sunday June 20, 2010: 9-11am Capital Cruises will provide boats to volunteers participating in "On-the-Water Cleanup - led by Capital Cruise"
For more information on "Clean Lady Bird Lake" visit the KAB site.
Have you ever wondered where all of the trash that floats into Lady Bird Lake comes from? After every storm (and we've had a lot this year) nine watersheds – Eanes, Barton, West Bouldin, East Bouldin, Blunn, Harpers Branch, Johnson, Shoal, & Waller – flow into Lady Bird Lake. Remember the cup that you stacked on top of the overflowing trash can and forgot about? Even though you knew it wasn't really "IN" the trash can, at least you didn't toss it onto the street. Well, the trash truck never saw your 12oz Styrofoam® cup with lid and straw because it was blown by a strong wind onto the street, where it rolled into the storm drain, sailed through the creek, and finally arrived at Lady Bird Lake. A swan, attracted by the shiny red straw, tried to eat it and separated the straw from the cup. The cup continued its journey down the lake. As you jogged around the many Zilker Park trails you noticed the cup, joined by its friends plastic bag and a the beer can twins, floating down the lake. "Ugh...why can't people put their trash where it belongs?", you thought to yourself. Yes, some of the trash finds its way "innocently" into the storm drains, while other trash is deliberately tossed onto the streets: cigarette butts, gum wrappers, napkins, fliers, or that 32oz cup that held your pre-club cocktail. Everything you use then throw away ends up somewhere. Will it be the landfill, the recycling facility, or Austin's Lady Bird Lake?
Help trash find its way out of Lady Bird Lake; register for a clean up project today.
View Bank of America Cleanup Team Photo Gallery
Capital Cruises believes in giving back to the community.
Here's a list of organizations that Capital Cruises has donated to this spring:
- PAWS of Austin
- Bastrop Homecoming
- American Red Cross (Fund Red Auctions)
- Austin Montessori School Fiesta 2010
- Seton Southwest
- Center For Child Protection (Playbingo Ladies Luncheon)
- Zilker Elementary PTA (Zilker Spring Fling)
- Angelheart Children's Shelter (4th Annual Toast to Awareness)
- Wells Branch PTA (5th Annual Spring Festival)
- Dell Children's Medical Center (Round Rock Circle of Friends)
- The Paramount and State Theatre's Anniversary Gala
- Capital Area Food Bank (17th Annual Reggae Fest and 20th Annual Hot Sauce Fest)
- The Alliance for Lupus Research (Austin Walk with Us to Cure Lupus)
- The Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance (5th Anniversary Celebration)
- The Hispanic Physicians Assoc. of Austin (2nd Annual Gala)
- The American Cancer Society (Cattle Baron's Ball)
- Keep Austin Beautiful (Clean Sweep 2010)