{"id":28044,"date":"2017-09-28T13:59:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T19:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28044"},"modified":"2017-09-28T15:03:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T21:03:43","slug":"office-of-sustainability-works-to-bring-community-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28044","title":{"rendered":"Fountain Creek clean up, Bike Month offer green opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Campus community members are invited to participate in a clean up of the Fountain Creek watershed as well as final events of the Bike Month Challenge.<\/p>\n

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The 4th<\/sup> annual Creek Week kicks off Sept. 30-Oct. 8 for the Fountain Creek watershed. UCCS adopted a segment of the creek through the City of Colorado Springs Adopt-a-Waterway Program.<\/p>\n

Last year,\u00a0more than\u00a02,000 community members took their part in cleaning the watershed. Students, faculty and staff are invited to clean the Templeton Gap Floodway 9:30-11:30 a.m. Oct. 4<\/a>. Sign up to volunteer.<\/a><\/p>\n

Sept. 25-30 is the last week of the Bike Month Challenge. A number of prizes<\/a> are available to Pedal Perks<\/a> participants who bike to campus at least once.<\/p>\n

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Kimberly Reeves, sustainability program manager, Office of Sustainability,\u00a0shared Bike Month Challenge by the numbers:<\/p>\n