Our Dedicated Volunteers (return to Volunteer page)
Marilyn Mammano is a certified City Planner and former Member of the New York City Planning Commission. She teaches part time at Florida Atlantic University in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning.

As a volunteer, and now as Chairperson of the Waterway Cleanup Committee, Marilyn likes to emphasize the family oriented nature of the annual cleanup. She says, "It is not unusual to see several generations of the same family participating each year. The 3,000 plus volunteers who pick up the trash are demonstrating to the kids, by their actions not just words, what responsible environmental stewardship means."
Dottie Noll My husband Wes and I moved to Plantation from Cincinnati, Ohio in 1987. I retired from my business as a real estate agent and together we spent time rehabbing our home and getting involved in our Civic Association.

In 1989 I received a call to coordinate the Plantation cleanup site, where I was the site coordinator until 1996 before being asked to be chairperson of the Waterway Cleanup Committee. I chaired the event until 1998, directing 9,000 volunteers and collecting 230 tons of trash over the course of those years. However, my role now is to handle the cleanup materials distribution and organize the set-up of the "Trash Bash" volunteer thank-you party.
Joan Sheridan, born in Brooklyn, moved to Ft. Lauderdale in 1963 with her husband Pete to live in Lauderdale Isles. It was there that Joan became very involved with civic and environmental issues pertaining to the protection and preservation of Broward County's natural resources. As a volunteer Joan has worked with several associations and has been instrumental in many of their environmental and community improvement accomplishments. Volunteering to make a difference in the environment and the community has always been one of her top priorities.

If you ask her why she has stays so involved, she will tell you: "I believe that if we all work together we can make a difference in our environment and our quality of life".