 Welcome to This Week in Longmont for September 18, 2020. I'm your host, Sergio Angelis with Longmont Public Media. Cleanup Greenup kicks off Saturday. Businesses, civic groups, schools, neighborhoods, families, and individuals are invited to help spruce up Longmont. Volunteers can pick a park, a greenway, a street, an alley, or open space to clean up or an area of need can be assigned. The grand kickoff for the month-long campaign is from 7.30 to 10.30 AM on Saturday, September 19 at Sunset Campus, 7 South Sunset Street. You can register at joinus.longmontcolorido.gov forward slash calendar. If you can't participate on kickoff day, you can help clean up green up through October 10. For more information, you can visit bit.ly forward slash clean up green up or call 303-651-8955. Go out on a limerick and win. Longmont Power and Communications is holding a limerick contest for Public Power Week. October 4 through 10, and two LPC customers could win a $100 downtown Longmont gift card. To enter, simply write a limerick about why you love Longmont's community-owned power and send it to LPC. You can email your entry to LPC at longmontcolorido.gov, submit a Facebook message to Longmont Power and Communications next slide, or mail or hand deliver to 1100 South Sherman Street, Longmont Colorado 80501. All entries must be received by October 10. For details and contest rules, please visit longmontcolorido.gov forward slash Public Power Week. We look forward to reading yours. Get a cozy movie pack from the library. Calling all tweens and teens. The library has a movie experience for you that's better than Redbox. When you check out a free movie from the library between Monday, September 21, and Monday, October 5, you can also receive a package of goodies to make the experience even better. Just drop in to pick out a movie or call 303-651-8477 to put a movie on hold and then stop by the Children's and Teen's Information Desk to get your movie pack. This program is for tweens and teens only and while supplies last. No registration required. See details and library hours at the Longmont Public Library website at longmontcolorido.gov. Learn how to navigate election media. Independent journalists and CU data journalism instructor Sandra Fish will help you cut through the political spin during the election season and being an informed voter in 2020. An online program offered by the Longmont Public Library from 7 to 8.30 p.m. on Thursday, September 24. The program is free, but registration is required. Once registered, attendees will be sent information to join the program. You can learn more and register at bit.ly forward slash libprograms hashtag voter. Xeryscaping and native plants. Xeryscaping and using native plants in our landscape doesn't mean gravel and ugly plants. Join Sharon Bocan and Darren Davidson of Boulder County Extension at 9 a.m. on Saturday, September 26 as they show how using native plants can provide a beautiful, easy care, low water use landscape and how to incorporate such plants into your existing landscape. To register and see other volunteer events and educational opportunities, please visit bit.ly forward slash join dash us dash calendar. Thursday nights at the virtual museum. Spend your Thursday evenings through November 17 at the virtual Longmont Museum for free panels, conversations and readings, livestream from the sewer auditorium. Highlights include programs on race and social justice, women's suffrage and the science of cloud formation as well as special evenings with dance icon, Cleo Parker Robinson, Colorado poet, Laureate Bobby LeFiebre and more. View live at 7.30 p.m. on the museum's Facebook page, Longmontpublicmedia.org or local Comcast channel eight or 880. You can get all those details at longmontmuseum.org. Mosquito spraying has ended for 2020. The recent snow and cooler nights have led to a decreased counts and West Nile virus hot zone monitoring areas leading to the decision to end mosquito spraying in Longmont for the 2020 season. Larva control will continue as needed in troubled areas. Although the risk of being infected with rest now virus has abated for 2020, Boulder County Public Health and Longmont officials still encourage residents to take necessary precautions to protect themselves. You can learn more about the four D's of protection at longmontcolorado.gov forward slash West Nile or call 303-651-8466. That's all for this week in Longmont. Thank you for tuning in. I'm your host Sergio Angelis and we'll catch you next week.