Kittatinny’s, Ruth and Dave Jones dedication to river clean up has preserved the unique beauty of the Delaware River for future paddlers. They had received numerous awards for this effort in the past 70+ years.
Kittatinny organizes volunteers who travel through three states as part of a three-day effort to clean up 70 miles of the Delaware River. The volunteer cleanup won two first-place awards from “Take Pride in America”, a recognition program formed by President George H.W. Bush. This award granted an invitation with the President at the White House in 1991.
- First Place, Twice, in Take Pride in America
- First Place, Three times, in Take Pride in Pennsylvania
- National Park Service Gold Star Award
- Twice, Upper Delaware Council RecreationAchievement Award
- Letter of Congratulations from Bill Clinton, President and Bruce Babbitt, President Clinton’s Secretary of the Interior
- Pike County Commissioners Award
- Five Times, New York State Education Association Environmental Impact Award
- Governor Thomas Ridge Flowing toward the Future Award
- The Delaware River Greenway Partnership Award
- Pocono Northeast Community Award
- Pocono Northeast Development Fund Recreation Tourism Category
- Save the Delaware Coalition Conservation Award
- National Association of Canoe Liveries and Outfitters
- Kittatinny Regional High School
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
- Twice, Northeast Pennsylvania Environmental Partnership Award
- Pocono Mountain Vacation Bureau
- Sierra Club
- Four Times, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Senator Charles Lemmond
- Monroe County, Pennsylvania
- Twice, Keep America Beautiful Award
- Delaware Township, Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania Environmental
- Three times, Renew America
- Governor Tom Ridge, Environmental Partnership Award
- United States Department of Interior, Volunteers in Parks
- Twice, US Congress
- New York State Assembly
- Sullivan County First Achievement Award
- Twice, Sullivan County Chamber of Commerce
- Town of Highland Sullivan County Chamber of Commerce
- New York State Assembly
- Sullivan County Legislature
- Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
- Pocono Mountain Vacation Bureau Community Service Award
- New Jersey State Federation of Sportsmens Club
- May, 2013 Ruth Jones presented with Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau Lifetime Achievement Award for their Tourism Achievement Awards Program.
- May, 2014 won Best Social Networking Award voted by the public through the Tri-State Chamber of Commerce Bizzy Awards
- 2016, Richard L. Snyder Excellence in Business Award, through Greater Pike Community Foundation
- 2017, Ruth Jones was awarded the Gail Sterrett Marketing Award from the Pocono Mountain Visitors Bureau