Park View Community Clean Up a Success
A few of the residents who helped make Park View a cleaner place on May 5th
Last Saturday’s Park View clean-up day was successful. No fewer than 22 neighbors participated. This clean-up was coordinated with DPW which provided the trash bags and their collection and with Greater DC Cares which provided gloves and trash grabbers.
As you can see below, in just under an hour and a half we were able to collect 13 bags of trash and get the garbage out of the neighborhood.
While I know it is difficult to stay on top of litter — especially on Georgia Avenue where I focused my efforts with DC Reynolds partner Jeremy Gifford — I was particularly encouraged that this time around I did not find any crack bags or condom wrappers.
The results of an hour and a half cleaning up the neighborhood
My follow-up questions to readers are — how frequently should we have these clean-ups, and is Saturday at 10 a.m. a generally good time for them?
Tags: community clean ups, Park View
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May 8, 2012 at 8:33 am
Thank you so much to those who organized and participated in the neighborhood clean up. Your efforts to help keep the neighborhood clean and safe are greatly appreciated! Hope to join you for your next clean up event,
May 8, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Thanks for the efforts, hopefully I can join next time. 10am on Saturdays is usually fine
May 8, 2012 at 10:48 pm
as often as possible… our neighborhood sorely needs it
May 11, 2012 at 4:52 pm
The neighborhood is cleaner as a result. Consider organizing monthly; 10am = good. Thx!
May 11, 2012 at 10:10 pm
I had a number of folks ask how often we picked up trash and if it was a regular event. I think once a month – say first Sat of every month would be easy to remember.
May 14, 2012 at 6:30 pm
I just found out about this and would love to participate in the next clean-up round. Thanks to the organizers of this!
May 15, 2012 at 2:48 pm
I like once per month too. Let’s organize some sort of social event after too, I enjoyed cleaning up with my family but I didn’t get to meet any new people and I would have liked to. Maybe we could do a community breakfast in the Rec Center with coffee and bagels beforehand? I just feel so greatful to all the people who helped out and I want to get to know them.