Cleaners use hang tags to raise ozone
awareness
The Pennsylvania
and Delaware Cleaners Association is working together with the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PENNDOT) to make the
environment safer.
Together they have produced hang tags that
will be placed on newly-cleaned garments. The tags depict the
problems that high ozone levels cause and offer instructions on
what people can do during “Ozone Action Days”
— or days when the air is expected to be unhealthy to
breathe.
PDCA was recently added to the ranks of
the Ozone Action Days program, a coalition of businesses,
governments, community groups and individuals who educate the
public about the dangers of ground-level ozone and encourages
citizens to voluntarily reduce their contributions to air
pollution.
As temperatures rise in the summer, so do
the ozone levels in the atmosphere, resulting in decreased air
quality. Thus, children and older adults — along with
those with breathing difficulties such as asthma, lung disease
and serious allergies — are at a greater health risk.
Drycleaners often have poor public
relations when it comes to environmental conservation, but PDCA
hopes to increase awareness that perc cleaners do not
contribute to higher ozone levels, but, instead, are fighting
to reduce them.
In order to accomplish that goal, PDCA
will distribute the hang tags to its members. In addition, they
have arranged for several suppliers to deliver tags to cleaners
throughout the state.
For more information or to request tags,
call the PDCA office at (215) 830-8495.
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York golf outing to help Special Olympics
The tee time for the Central Pennsylvania
Dry Cleaners Association’s 11th annual golf outing is
coming up fast.
The event will commence with a shotgun
start at noon on Thursday, August 28 at the Heritage Hills Golf
Course in York, PA.
“We expect this event to top all the
others,” said Carl Gardner, PDCA board member and chair
of the event.
None of the proceeds for the event will go
to PDCA; instead, all money will go to the York County Special
Olympics.
The location is a new addition to the
tournament, allowing out-of-town golfers a place to stay
overnight.
Another feature to the event is a
hole-in-one prize of a 100th anniversary V-Rod offered by
Harley Davidson. Other smaller prizes will also be given away,
as well.
The golf package will include 18 holes of
golf, a cart with GPS, range balls, a patio grill lunch,
all-you-can-drink beer and soda and a chicken barbecue dinner.
The entry fee is $110.
Non-golfers may attend and occupy
themselves with wine and cheese and miniature golf, followed by
the chicken barbecue dinner for $45, or dinner only at $35. The
hotel spa facility will also be available for use with 25% of
the total going to the York County Special Olympics.
For information on how to participate as a
golfer or a sponsor, contact Carl Gardner at (717) 495-1796,
Paula Kostick of Classic Cleaners at (717) 730-6777, or Dale
Kaplan of Kaplan’s Careful Cleaners at (717) 737-0572.
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