We can always use extra hands at our annual cleanup 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 – May 5
The 57th Annual Pathway and River Cleanup will happen on Sunday, May 5 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. This year’s event falls on one of the most jam-packed weekends of events in recent Crescent Heights memory. We had planned to go out as usual on Saturday, but that coincides with a series of Jane’s Walks and other community events, so we’ll hope for continued good weather and meet by the river on Sunday the 5th.
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 some of our regulars out on the pathway. Crescent Heights has been tackling this river reach for more than 20 years! Let us know if you can join us and we can get a sense of our numbers for securing supplies. We’ll meet by the river at the Reconciliation Bridge and work Westward to Centre Street. Join us!
Crescent Heights Community Cleanup – May18
Our very popular Crescent Heights Community Cleanup is now set for 2024. Our assigned date is Saturday, May 18 from 09:00 am until 2:00 pm. Please think about helping out at 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 onsite, the better our traffic flow and cycle time will be.
We always enjoy partnering with our trusted third-party vendors to determine the scope of materials we can accept; our friends at TechnoTrash will be with us again this year to dispose of electronics, as will the Women in Need Society (WINS), which accepts gently used household items. We hope to have a metal bin for metal recycling but haven’t yet confirmed this. Please remember that organics should be disposed of through your green bin or take advantage of the City’s Spring Yard Waste Program from April 15 to May 25 at City of Calgary Landfill sites, but don’t bring your hedge trimmings and yard waste like to our cleanup.
What’s the Same for 2024?
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. Remember to stream recyclables to your blue cart or to a neighbourhood depot so we’re not sending recyclable materials to the landfill. Similarly, hazardous waste products (paints, chemicals, etc.) should 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! No tires! Ensure your load is properly secured and tarped enroute to the hall. Please don’t bring materials and drop them off 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. Non-claimed goods will be loaded into the trucks in the last hour of the event. If you can help with this effort, please come to the site around 1:00 pm to help us clean up and close.
Please be prepared to unload your materials: volunteers will be on hand but only to manage the traffic flow onsite. 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 our date? The city-wide Community Cleanup program kicks off in April and events are scheduled at different communities across the city. Visit the website below for dates, times, and locations: https://www.calgary.ca/csps/abs/partnership-programs/community-cleanups.html.
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