Thanks to all those who pitched in at the Big River Cleanup Saturday.
For the last week the ACI prisoners filled two dumpsters at the transfer station cleaning Hopkins, Division and Rt 3. They are still working out there another week. That was great so we didn’t have to walk the roads.
100 volunteers signed in (that means we likely had 120 total). We filled 8 dumpsters! Roughly half were mtbkers. Three full of tires and two with just steel. Our Arcadia vp Jim G headed a group that cleaned sites way down Burnt Saw Mill….. removed old shed, trash from the remains of the houses then went deep to tackle two old dumps in the woods. Our Nemba rep Matt H took a group to three old sites off rt 3. Bob Z’s (who lives in the house across from the cemetery on HH) crew worked two large tire dumps on Division and Hopkins. Yet another group with headed by Jonathan (our web master) took Jeeps and a flat bed and pulled the hulk of the old jeep out of the “wall” trial, removed the car hulk next to the Coaster trail and the tire dump deep in the woods off Cardi Road headed to the Saw Mill cuttings piles. Dan N (head of the WG Conservation Commission) along with Nicole (who choose the cleanup as her high school senior project) cleaned sites way west on Rt 3. Two troops of Cub Scouts worked the Sand Pit and I hear filled two pickup trucks.
At noon about half the volunteers meet up at Big River Inn for burgers, dogs and a raffle.
thanks again for all of your effort…
(here’s a gallery from the last two years
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaltschnee.)
huffin & puffin pete
note to mtbkers: Likely some will get lost in on there regular rides because trash landmarks are gone (may need to put some signs up to say “there was a blue barrel here”!
April 21st, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Great day Peter! - Was good to see everyone, and great to be able to pull out some of the rubbish. On our way out to the burned car near the coaster trail we passed a few “navigation markers” and I explained to my passenger that we should leave a few otherwise we’d have hikers and bikers wandering out in the woods for weeks on end.