Take Pride seeking volunteers

Dust off your waders and grab some garbage bags. The 25th annual Take Pride in Smith Mountain Lake Cleanup Day is Saturday, May 5. For the 8 a.m.-to-4 p.m.event, area residents will be volunteering to haul debris, large and small, from the lake to prepare the waterway for the boating season.

Although registration is not required, registrants will receive supplies to help aid in the trash pickup, as well as gloves and a Take Pride in SML T-shirt. Registration forms can be filled out at the Tri-County Lake Administrative Commission's office at The Plaza on Scruggs Road in Moneta. Forms are due today.

Participants can unload collected debris at one of 11 drop-off sites around the lake. The sites are:

Admiral's Landing, B48

Bay Roc Marina, R87

Blackwater Marina, B40

Gills Creek Marina, G4

Hales Ford Bridge, R28

Mitchell's Point Marina, C3A

Moorman's Marina, R76A

Pleasure Point, R52

SML State Park, R20

W.E. Skelton 4-H Educational Conference Center, B40

Westlake Waterfront Inn, R37

For more information about Take Pride, call 721-4400.