Category: Cleanup

Published in The BANAR, June 2015 by Barb Sweazey We had a beautiful day! Held on Saturday, April 18th more than 130 volunteers from the community participated in the yearly litter and graffiti removal effort. With this many volunteers we were able to have excellent coverage of the public properties across the community, and collected…

Published in The BANAR June 2014 By Barb Sweazey Our 14th annual Blackburn Spring Clean-up was a huge success this year. Held on the rain date, Sunday April 27, we had 160 Blackburn residents come and pitch in for the community event, along with about 20 loyal volunteers who help us each year. In total…

Published in The BANAR June 2013 by Barb Sweazey The Blackburn Spring Clean-up was another great success this year. Held on Saturday, April 27th, more than 100 volunteers from the community showed up despite the cool and overcast day. Considering this was our rain date, we were very happy with the turn out! In all,…

Published in The BANAR June 2012 By Barb Sweazey The 12th annual Blackburn Hamlet Spring Clean-up was held on April 28th, with approximately 135 participants. It was a spectacular day, with many Blackburn residents coming out to pitch in. We gathered about 50 bags of garbage as well as some big ticket items like old…

Published in The BANAR June 2011 by Barb Sweazey The 11th annual BlackburnHamlet Spring Clean-up was held on April 30th with approximately 120 participants. As this was the “rain date”, we were pleased with the turnout, and really enjoyed a beautiful spring day to do the cleanup. We collected 75-100 bags of garbage this year,…

Published in The BANAR June 2010 by Barb Sweazey The 10th annual BlackburnHamlet Spring Clean-up was held April 24, 2010,withmore than 175 participants. We collected more than 100 bags of garbage and more than two dozen leaf and yard waste bags. This year we also had several Blackburn citizens who pitched in either before or…