A day to celebrate all that is good about living here on the verdant Blue Planet takes place Tuesday, April 22, with the 42nd annual Earth Day.

Sloatsburg will add its own small voice to the celebration by participating in the upcoming county-wide Great American Cleanup campaign. Sloatsburg will join with some eleven other villages across the county on Saturday, April 26, as part of Keep Rockland Beautiful campaign that focuses on communities working together for a cleaner, greener Rockland.

Over 3000 volunteers throughout the county are expected to take part in the Rockland cleanup effort that will involve everything from roadside and community cleanups to a Hudson River Sweep and even a bag-a-thon.

Sloatsburg resident Carin Shapiro organized the Sloatsburg event, which takes place Saturday morning at the Sloatsburg Community Fields.

Shapiro said that her daughter Ilyssa wrote a letter to Sloatsburg Mayor Carl Wright about Sloatsburg’s participation in the Great American Cleanup. The mayor invited mother and daughter to a village board meeting to kick around ideas and Saturday’s event is the result.

Keep Rockland Beautiful will supply participants with t-shirts and supplies for the events.

To join in just go to the Sloatsburg Community Fields around 10 a.m. this coming Saturday. For more information, visit here.

An Earth Day evening of educational short films

The Suffern Film Festival will celebrate Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22, at the Lafayette Theatre, with an evening of nature, adventure and activism, beginning at 7 p.m.

Part of the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, which features many of the nation’s most cutting-edge adventure and environmental films, the Lafayette Theatre stop will focus on 12 films of varying length that cover odd and interesting environmental issues across the world.

Tickets range in price from $15-$18 and buys viewers an evening of short films and other activities. The whole thing gets underway at 6 p.m. with a bit of music from the Mighty Wurlitzer organ.