This event already happened, and was a success!
During this rescheduled cleaning event, due to rain, 114 volunteers came out to pick up litter in dense neighborhoods in the Greater Toledo Area. 182 trash bags were removed from Toledo.
Main Sponsors for this event included:
- Owens Community College,
- The University of Toledo,
- Vito’s Pizza,
- Office Max,
- & many other small contributors
This program is designed to clean neighborhoods rapidly while raising awareness in the community. Each volunteer is educated on the effects of litter build up and ways to prevent it.
service hours!
If we don’t do it, who will?
Doesn’t make sense to drive 8 miles to pick up trash when there’s plenty of it in the Old North End where I live. How about a location here?
Bev, this is an entirely voluntary program. We have made a litter grid and will clean the dirtiest areas first. The closest location to your area is probably at Ravine Park. We wish we could have found contacts in the Old North, however we ran out of time. For that, we apologize!
If your willing to help, let us know and we can coordinate in the Old North.
Jeffrey
Hey, I received a phone call asking to be a team leader. The only problem is that I had to choose a different location because my teacher wants all my classmates to meet at the same location. Does this cause a problem?
That should be fine! What location were you refering to? Thanks!
What are the locations?
Is it possible to add an eleventh site to the list? Bowman Park on Jackman (near Laskey) is in GREAT NEED of a litter clean-up. Our 5 and 6 year olds play ball in this park and would enjoy participating in an activity like this (with parental assistance, of course). I bet that other families on their team and league would participate too! This environment is a safer location for younger children to become involved in such a worthwhile cause. (Safer because it is far from roadways, etc.) I am willing to be a team leader at this location if approved!
Hello!I have signed up on last Saturday and I chose “contact”me by e-mail,but so far I haven’t got any news about that.Is there anything wrong?Thanks.
Ready to help
HERE ARE THE 10 MEETING LOCATIONS!
#1 University of Toledo Lot 10
North of The Glass Bowl Stadium
#2 Lucas County Fair Grounds
Maumee, South entrance @ Key Street
#3 Old West End Commons
@ Robinwood & Bancroft
#4 Cullen Park
@ Point Place Communities
#5 Bowman Park
@ Jackman Road Entrance
#6 Ravine Park
@ End of Colorado Rd.
#7 Strawberry Acres
@ Blue Pavilion
#8 Country Charm Shopping Ctr
Perrysburg, @ Vito’s
#9 Starlite Plaza
Sylvania, @ Huntington Bank
#10 Hollywood Casino
1968 Miami Street, @ New Lot
… Come meet us at any of the meeting locations no later than 2:00pm on Saturday!
… We will also be sending the descriptive email tonight, tomorrow, and Friday!
-From Your Friends, The LitterBugz
There are additional sites in District 4 on the 14th. The Friendly Center in North Toledo and the Fredrick Douglass Center on Indiana Ave. The time is in the morning 9am-12noon.
Paula Hicks-Hudson
District 4 Councilwoman
So Excited! The event is in 2 days!!
Are you cancelling the event this afternoon, given the forecast and rain that we have already had. I hate to drive to the site if it is going to be cancelled and need to let my residents and another staff person know as well. Is there s phone number that I can call?
Just wanted to let you know that the 43609 zip code is in need of attention also, especially from the Trail down Western to Airport near Byrne. I pick up trash in the neighborhood from the 3100 block of Airport to Byrne and down the side streets when I can.
I’ve been interested in cleaning up this city since I joined cubscouts in 1983, and we cleaned up part of what was then Crosby Gardens. I would love to do my part to keep up our civic pride by picking up trash…I walk every day in one of a few city and county parks, and all need help. The worst I see is Ottowa Park, with Liberty and Willys parks a close second. The roads around those parks and Wood Lawn Cemetary are atrocious with people dumping all over the place…I try to fill one bag of garbage on each walk, and have no problem doing so!