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April Cleanup 2002
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The
City of Providence
and
Groundwork Providence
each year sponsor April Cleanups. Residents throughout the City
organize to clean up sites in their neighborhoods during the month of
April.
Groundwork Providence and the City provide gloves, trash bags and
trash pickup to each cleanup site.
SNA Picks Concord Street Site
This year the SNA led a cleanup on Saturday, April 27th at Concord
Street, below the Smithfield Avenue overpass. The long-neglected site
accumulates trash from the roadway above, and seems to be a favorite
location for illegal dumping. Neighborhood volunteers pulled a metal
cabinet, a table saw, a small shop's worth of auto parts, and 100's of
beer bottles from this small patch of land.
SNA Board member Greg Gerritt acted as Cleanup Coordinator for
this effort. Joining him were fellow SNA Board members, and
some neighbors from Concord Street. In all 10 volunteers spent
their Saturday morning pulling trash from the thick overgrowth.
A patch of poison ivy kept them on their toes!
Three hours and a partial-dumpster-full of trash later, the view from
the roadway was greatly improved. And yet, there is still plenty of
garbage left for a future cleanup. The northwest section extends
back several hundred yards, all the way to the Shaw's Plaza parking
lot.
With a cleanup, many hands really do make light work. Consider
joining us next year, and help improve some overlooked corner
of our neighborhood.
To organize a cleanup in your own neighborhood, contact
Groundwork Providence.
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