Community Clean Up Report

Every year, just before Environment Day, the Mayor holds 2 events.

The first one is the 20 Minute Make-over, which was on Friday April 18th. Please see the story about the school kids visit, to learn more about what we did that day.

The second event was the next day, Saturday April 19th. We decided that this would be a good opportunity to start on cleaning the Community Garden, and get the neighbourhood involved in caring for the park area. The City Councillor's office helped me out, by printing up some flyers. We also put up some posters. As well, we received some free plastic bags and gloves, that the City provides, we got ours from the community centre.

I was really pleased with the turn up from the gardeners, and with the neighbours as well. Every one worked hard for several hours to get the garden started, cleaned around the garden area and in the garden shed, and we got the compost sorted out. We had a chance to test out the new wheel barrow that Amar donated to the Community Garden.

In the park, Paul, a good neighbour, took the lead in caring for the park. he raked the leaves away from the fence and picked up the garbage and the recyclable items. Soon other neighbours joined him. Mark and Lee Anne started to fill the yard waste bags with the leaves, and when we ran out of bags, they went to the store and got some more-Thank you! One -community minded- couple from the 442 Town houses came and started to help with the park. As Paul worked on the south end of the park, the other 2 couples worked on making the end of the street presentable!

At the end of the day they had filled up at least 20-30 bags! The bags of leaves weren't picked up right away, and other neighbours made good use of a few of them, and enjoyed a clean park.