Report by Carol Jacquard, Events Committee
The Earth Day clean-up started at 9 o’clock and ended at 1 o’clock on Saturday, April 21st. We began at the intersection of Hwy. 103 and the Raynardton Road. We proceeded northward on the Raynardton Road for 2 kilometres as far as Civic #491.
Forty bags of garbage and two bags of returnables were collected. Nothing was found in good enough condition to recycle. Among the items found were a lawnchair, a tire rim, some building material, an easy chair, a car fender, a pair of Hanes underwear, a prescription, a credit card and a piece of steel railing left by the Department of Transportation when they repaired Hewitt’s Bridge.
Those who turned out to honour Mother Earth were Bob Barlow, Mil Nickerson, Curtis Nickerson, Barb Cook, Phyl Hayes, John Sollows, Gerald & Carol Jacquard. Bags were donated by Waste Check and Department of Transportation will take the garbage to the landfill. It began to rain around noon so we were all drenched by the time we finished. This portion of the Raynardton Road looks much better now. Thanks everyone.
In a follow up report: The team finished the cleanup at 1:00. By 5:30 a fresh fast-food container had already shown up as a discard along the freshly cleaned stretch. All of us who do spring cleanups are amazed at how quickly the litter bugs get busy again, in spite of all the educational effort to combat old and unthinking behaviour.