Canyon Lake invited to ‘Pete Delia’ Lake Cleanup

The Canyon Lake Yacht Club invites the entire Canyon Lake community to help out at its “Pete Delia” Fall Lake Cleanup Day on Oct. 21. Volunteers will meet at Diamond Point Park at 9:00 a.m. for instructions, maps and supplies.

This twice-yearly event is organized by the Canyon Lake Yacht Club where volunteers take boats around the shoreline of Canyon Lake and golf carts to park beaches and shorelines to gather debris and trash.

Boats and volunteers will enter every cove and check every foot of shoreline for partially submerged and floating objects, filling huge garbage bags of debris, and bringing them back to Diamond Point Park where the City of Canyon Lake will collect them prior to disposal.

“The Yacht Club has held a Lake Cleanup every year for decades,” Yacht Club Commodore Ron Wilbur said. “It’s a great opportunity for the community to focus our attention on this beautiful lake, clearing it of some of the mountains of junk that find their way into the water every year.”

City Council Member Jennifer Dain carries a bag full of debris collected at a previous Canyon Lake Cleanup Day. The Canyon Lake Yacht Club invites the community to its “Pete Delia” Fall Lake Cleanup Day on Oct. 21. Photo provided by Ron Wilbur

The “Pete Delia” Fall Lake Cleanup Day is named in honor of the late Pete Delia, the perennial chairman of this event as well as the Green Dragon “master” in the annual holiday Parade of Lights.

“Pete was my friend, as he was to so many in this community, and he was one of the Yacht Club legends who we honored at our spring Volunteer Appreciation Dinner,” Ron said. “Sadly, we lost Pete this year, and because he loved leading our Lake Cleanup days, we are honoring his memory by naming this event for him.”

These Lake Cleanup Days provide a valuable service to the entire community, and they’re a fun and rewarding activity, Ron said. Participants get to meet and hang out with other community-conscious Canyon Lakers.

Participants do not need to register. Volunteers should just show up at Diamond Point Park at 9:00 a.m. for instructions and maps. People arriving in golf carts should bring large trash bags and nets. A few boats will be equipped with large nets to help pull in floating debris.

All gathered debris are returned to Diamond Point Park for counting, collection, and disposal.