The 56th Annual Pathway and River Cleanup will happen on Saturday, May 6. Crescent Heights’ Community Cleanup is approved for 2023 and will go ahead on Saturday, May 20 from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. These are perennially popular events in the community, and we hope to make a clean sweep in May.
We can always use extra hands at these events, so if you can lend a hand for either or both of them, please contact us at [email protected] or [email protected].
Pathway and River Cleanup
The 56th Pathway and River Cleanup is scheduled for Saturday, May 6 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. This gives the option of rescheduling to Sunday the 7th in the event of nasty weather. Our river reach is from 4 Street NE to Centre Street, River Left, or the near (north) bank of the Bow. We hope to see many of our regulars out on the pathway. We meet under the Fourth Avenue Fly-over at the corner of Memorial Drive and 4 Street NE. Let us know if you can join us so we can get a sense of our numbers for supplies.
This year requires volunteers to attend a quick orientation session in order to make the Cleanup safe and efficient. Please contact John McDermid at [email protected] or [email protected] to get in on the orientation. At the time of updating this for the View, we didn’t have much in the way of details for the orientation, but it’s mostly common sense (“Don’t touch anything you don’t like the look of!”). In addition, our river reach is a difficult one in terms of terrain and the kinds of things we’re likely to find in the Cleanup, so it is good to get a safety briefing before we set off. Please do contact me in advance of May 6, and thank you.
Crescent Heights Community Cleanup – May 20
Our very popular Crescent Heights Community Cleanup is set for Saturday, May 20 from 9:00 am until 2:00 pm. If you can volunteer for the cleanup, we can certainly use your help, and being on site gives you the first pick of the FREE Store’s treasures (see below). The City recommends having 15 to 20 volunteers on site, as community cleanup events are increasingly popular and draw people from across the city. The more people we have to direct traffic and activity on site, the better our traffic flow and cycle time will be.
We have made arrangements with third-party vendors to firm up the range of materials we can accept, once again we can take metals and electronics as we have in past years, plus gently used household items for the Women in Need Society (WINS).
Same place: CHCA Community Hall, enter from 2 street NW at 11 Avenue; packer trucks will be positioned to accept household waste or stuff that may not fit in your black cart. Volunteers will be on hand to direct the traffic flow and maintain distance. Remember to stream recyclables to your blue cart or to a neighbourhood depot so we’re not sending recyclable materials to a land-fill. Similarly, organics like yard waste and spring cleanup materials should be disposed of through the Spring Yard Waste Program at all City Landfill sites from April 14 through May 28; now that the Green Cart program is well established, our community cleanup no longer handles organics. Hazardous waste products (paints, chemicals, etc.) must be disposed of at a designated firehall or landfill equipped for those materials. No concrete rubble can be accepted because it damages the equipment. No glass, please! Make sure your load is properly secured and tarped en route to the hall. Please don’t bring materials and drop them before or after the event, we’ll be watching!
The FREE Store will be in operation once again to help gently used items with life left in them find new homes. Goods that are not claimed will be loaded into the trucks in the last half-hour of the event. If you can help with this effort, please come to the site around 1:30 pm to help us clean up and close up.
Please be prepared to unload your own materials. Volunteers will be on hand only to manage the traffic flow on site. Our trusted City staff are there to operate the equipment; remember that they are volunteering their time too! Unload as quickly as you can to keep things moving.
Can’t wait for May? The city-wide Community Cleanup program kicks off in April and events are scheduled at different communities across the city. Visit Calgary.ca/cleanups for dates, times, and locations.
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