🌹🌻 HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY 🌺💐
And speaking of which, we had quite a few amazing mothers out at our Arcade Crk Cleanup @ Norwood (14.0), giving Mother Earth a whole lot of love. 💚 🌎
Despite the heat, 26 volunteers were able to 🎶Get Down🎶 and 🎶Work Their Bodies🎶 sufficiently to dig and haul out another 7,500 lbs of trash and encampment debris from the same general area we had already visited 13 times. With most of the surface items already removed, volunteers dug in to remove pile after pile of buried debris. Included in the wet, muddy haul were 2 shopping carts, hundreds (perhaps thousands) of plastic bags, a stroller, several broken pop-up tents, clothes, blankets, tents, sleeping bags, toxic chemicals, carpets, 2 mattresses, scores of bicycle parts, over 50 bags of loose litter that was collected and too much more to name.
There is so much trash and debris still left in this same area. But rather than feel defeated, we take solace in the fact that this area is truly undergoing a historical transformation, albeit a painstakingly slow one.
Thank you everyone who comes out to help in this area, as well as our generous fiscal donors. These cleanups are brutal on our tools and cause quite a need for nutrition and hydration. And thank you 😊 once again Forensiclean for helping make this collective dream come true for this poor creek.
Thank you everyone and enjoy this beautiful Sunday! 💚🌷