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Hotel Booking Whether it's rallying for Earth-friendly transportation or picking up garbage along the salt marsh shoreline in Liberty State Park, Hudson County residents will have several chances to celebrate Earth Day-related events.

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Travel Agency One of the more novel events being planned is a five-kilometer "Run for Your Life" road race scheduled for May 10 in Jersey City. The race is being sponsored by Greenpeace USA, which says it hopes to raise awareness of the serious threats posed to area residents by chemical plants.

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Cheap Hotel Runners are encouraged to sport pajamas or business suits to reflect what they might be wearing if they were caught off-guard during a chemical disaster, said Nancy M. Hwa, a Greenpeace spokeswoman.

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Flight Booking "The point is, if there were a chemical disaster, many people would literally be running for their lives," said Hwa.

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Travel Agent The run will begin at 10:20 a.m. at Lincoln Park in Jersey City and end at Liberty State Park. However, on-site registration will take place the day of the race at Liberty State Park between 8:30 and 10 a.m., after which runners will be transported to Lincoln Park.

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Hotel Chicago Not surprisingly, the county's largest Earth Day event is planned for Saturday at Liberty State Park.

Online Booking The Earth Day 2003 Family Festival, held by the state Department of Environmental Protection's Interpretive Center, will take place between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Travel Health Insurance In addition to diverse presentations and activities designed to highlight the wonders of the park and nature in general, there will be a performance by the Wildlife Conservation Society's Wildlife Theater Players, who will take children on an imaginary trip to the Central Park Zoo; a large scale, colorful puppet show celebrating the inhabitants of the Hudson River Estuary; and a demonstration by a nationally renowned falconer.

Hotel Reservation "The park is by no means a secret," said Greg Remaud, president of Liberty State Park Conservancy, an organization formed in 1996 by local citizens to protect the green character of the park. "But there are wonders that have been hidden in the park."

London Hotel Booking Remaud, who is the preservation director of New York/New Jersey Baykeeper, mentioned specifically the Caven Point "butterfly bushes" that are a migratory stop for monarch butterflies. LSP Conservancy is a co-sponsor of the festival.

Discount Travel In the last four or five years, he said, there's been more cooperation between the park and "friends groups" to make the celebration more interactive in an effort to effectively demonstrate environmental issues to children and adults.

Orlando Hotel The festival is also being sponsored by Friends of Liberty State Park, which is also organizing a volunteer clean-up of the park's salt marsh shoreline for Saturday, May 3, at 10:30 a.m.

Booking Agency Sam Pesin, president of Friends of LSP, said the goal of the event is to teach people that it is "their responsibility to clean our air and water for our children."

International Travel Medical Also on May 3, the Jersey City Incinerator Authority is having a festival at Lincoln Park, near the Abraham Lincoln statue at the Kennedy Boulevard entrance, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

New York Hotel Pesin said the Friends of LSP will also host a flower-planting event at the park on May 17 at 10 a.m. Participants, he said, will meet in the large playground on Freedom Way. For more information, Pesin said, call Maria Wakefield at (973) 736-0913.

Online Travel Booking On another environmental front, the Green Party of Hudson County has scheduled a rally and demonstration tomorrow at the Pavonia/Newport PATH station in Jersey City. Organizers hope to generate support for Earth-friendly transportation policies in Hudson County.

Travel Medical Insurance The rally, which begins at 6 p.m. and ends at 9 p.m., will feature live entertainment and free sunflower seeds.

Miami Hotel For more information about the Earth Day festival at Liberty State Park, call (201) 915-3409.

Air Deccan Booking By Martin Espinoza
Jersey Journal - 4/24/2003

Topic: Activism

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