Report on the Town Clean Up, June 29, 2019

The Clean up went quite well!  Lots of great people showed up to help:  Bobby Vrba (who stayed until the very end!), Val Crist, Kris Gibson, John and Cherry Sand, Pam Leland, Toni Shaller, Chad  Miltonberger, Bear and Poppy, as well as assorted others  who stepped in off and on and helped each other.  Max was a huge help mashing down the trash with his machine so that we had room for everything.  A fine cooperative, community affair!  And we did collect enough money to pay for the trash dumpster, which was more expensive than last year so I was concerned.  Thank you all for everything!  If I forgot anyone, I apologize – please know you were appreciated.

The County people were great to work with, also.  They took electronics (although there weren’t a lot), appliances, some household hazardous waste (antifreeze, car batteries, latex paint), tires, mixed rigid plastics and Styrofoam, and mattresses.  They were also really helpful with everything else, whenever we needed a helping hand.

The dumpster for metal was probably only half full and the one for wood was very sparse until the last when Michelle and Whitey brought a bunch of slash.

The repurposing/free stuff was good and people were pretty reliable about taking back items that no one took.

It does feel as though we may have cleared out the majority of our junk over the years and could consider holding this event every other year.  What do you think?  Any ideas or suggestions?

Again, many thanks to everyone who participated and contributed!

Gretchen, Clean Up Oganizer