Approximately 125 volunteers from the West Side Nut Club and the Ford Center will join Clean Evansville in picking-up litter on the city’s West Side tomorrow morning.  The monthly clean-up effort will target areas near Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden along Mesker Park Drive and Wimberg Avenue; near University Shopping Center along the Lloyd Expressway, Rosenberger Avenue and Red Bank Road; and around Howell Park on South Barker Avenue.

This if the fifth month for the clean-up initiative launched by Mayor Lloyd Winnecke in January. Keep Evansville Beautiful spokeswoman Jennifer Mason said nearly 200 people total volunteered to help this month.

USI Day at the Zoo takes place this Saturday at Mesker Park Zoo.  It's day of crafts, refreshments, and animal encounters under the USI tent.

The schedule of activities is as follows:

If you've noticed a funny little car with a big pole and what looks like a camera of some sort on the top, you've found a Google Street View car.  It's taking fresh pictures of streets in the Evansville area (and the houses and businesses along them) for use in the Google Street View portion of Google Maps.

Street View first became available in 2007 and is now available in many cities across 35 countries. As you know, Street View imagery of much of Evansville is already available on Google Maps, but updating the imagery is something the company does from time to time as part of its effort to provide users with the richest, most up-to-date maps possible.

Google also has steps you can take if you, for some reason, don't want you or your house to be visible on their maps.