Each fall, thousands of Arkansans remove tons of litter from our state's roadways, shorelines, parks and public areas during the Great Arkansas Cleanup, the statewide community-improvement campaign.  In conjunction with the Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission, the Crater of Diamonds State Park will be holding a Great Crater Cleanup on Saturday, September 26 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM.  Our rain day for the event will be Saturday, October 2 at the same time.  After a summer with hundreds of visitors, our diamond search area is in desperate need of a Shine.  Our answer to this problem is to invite our friends, neighbors, and visitors to scatter over the diamond search areas and pick up all of that ugly litter.  Who knows what kind of interesting “artifacts” will turn up! 

To sweeten the day we will be giving out door-prizes, including a grand prize for the greatest amount of litter (by weight) picked up by one person.  We also will be furnishing cold drinks and water.  All you have to do is show up.  We will furnish the bags and the scale to weigh your haul of litter.  Oh yes, if a visitor happens to find a diamond while he or she is participating in our litter pick up, then the same rules apply and that visitor will keep the diamond!

Search area last plowed:  June 18, 2009, Total diamonds so far in 2009 -- 726

Diamond finds for August 10th to August 16th (100 pts. = 1 carat):

August 10 - Billy Moore, Murfreesboro, AR, 9 pt. white, 42 pt. white; David Gaw, Macon, MO, 6pt. yellow;

August 11 - Leah Tschantz, Osawatonie, KS, 40 pt. white; Sally Adams, Murfreesboro, AR, 8 pt. white

August 12 - Kim Jones, Roseboro, AR, 67 pt. white

August 13 -  Denis Tyrrell, Murfreesboro, AR, 3 pt. white

August 14 - Shawna Goddard, Belton, MO, 18 pt. white

August 15  - Denis Tyrrell, Murfreesboro, AR, 18 pt. white

August 16  - Denis Tyrrell, Murfreesboro, AR, 2 pt. white, 7 pt. white, 7 pt. white, 10 pt. brown