Crescent
Heights Community Cleanup May 17
The date for our very popular
annual Crescent Heights Community Cleanup is now set for Sunday, May 17 from
9:00 am until 2:00 pm. If you can volunteer for the cleanup, we can certainly
use your help, and being onsite gives you the first pick of the Free Store’s
treasures (see below). The City recommends having 15 to 20 volunteers onsite,
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. To volunteer, please
contact us at assist[email protected] or [email protected].
We have contacted our third-party
vendors and made arrangements to accept metals and electronics as we have in
past years, plus gently-used household items for the Women in Need Society
(WINS).
What’s the
Same for 2026?
Same place: CHCA Community Hall,
enter from 2 street NW at 11 avenue; packer trucks will be positioned to accept
household waste – stuff that may not fit in your black cart. Volunteers will be
on hand to direct the traffic flow and keep things moving. Remember to stream
recyclables to your blue cart or to a neighbourhood depot so we’re not sending
recyclable materials to a landfill. Similarly, yard waste and organics should
be disposed of through the green cart program or the City’s Spring Yard Waste
Program. Hazardous waste products (paints, chemicals, etc.) should be disposed
of at a designated firehall or landfill equipped for the those materials. No
concrete rubble can be accepted because it damages the equipment. No glass,
please! No barbeques, microwave ovens, and no batteries. Make sure your load is
properly secured and tarped en route to the hall. Please be prepared to unload
your own materials: volunteers will be on hand but only to manage the traffic
flow on site. City staff are there only to operate the equipment. Unload as
quickly as you can to keep things moving. And 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.
Our event runs from 9:00 am until
2:00 pm, but we will be monitoring our traffic volume and flow and may have to
cut the line off at about 1:30 pm to get the last vehicles through the site by
2:00 pm, so we are not keeping our trusted City staff past their time: remember
that they are volunteering their time too!
Can’t wait for May? The city-wide
Community Cleanup program kicked off in April, and events are scheduled at
different communities across the city in the spring, summer, and autumn. Bear
in mind that the Cleanups are increasingly popular and some events involve
significant wait time to unload. Visit the website below for dates, times and
locations:
https://www.calgary.ca/csps/abs/partnership-programs/community-cleanups.html.
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