unnamed (1)Once again the City of Utica participated in the Keep America Beautiful – Great American Cleanup.

In the past few days over 200 volunteers were out on the streets of Utica sprucing up the City.  They collected 400 bags of trash and litter as well as truckloads of green waste. Volunteer efforts such as this are what make Utica A great place to live, work and raise a family.

Thank you for your help and dedication to the City of Utica!

unnamed (2)Thursday, April 22, 2016

On Thursday volunteers from the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugee were out cleaning the neighborhood .

They cleaned from South Street at Park Avenue to Genesee and then all streets in between down to Hobart, the Kopernik Park, Oneida Square area, library, refugee center, Thea Bowman, State to William, and they cleaned and unnamed (3)prepped the Unity South garden on Park Avenue, the Cornerstone Church garden on Kirkland.

Older refugees who could not do outside work planted marigolds indoors to be used to beautify the gardens.

Friday April 23, 2016

Cleaning up – the HomeOwnership Center kicked off Earth Day Clean Up  with a Downtown cleanup with Mix 102.5 unnamed (4)at the Landmarc Building.

Over the weekend a number of groups and individuals were out on the street across the City of Utica starting at 9:00am Saturday.

  • The Cornhill Neighborhood Association & Mohawk Valle Latino Association conducted their annual Cleanup at Kemble Park.
  • unnamed (5)The Criminal Justice Club at MVCC C will concentrated on the Brewery District
  • The Elfun Society focused on Bagg’s Square Memorial Park
  • Berge Construction was busy cleaning up Erie St.
  • Bill True along with his family and friends were on  South Street
  • Brian Roemer did an outstanding job in North Utica on Wurz Ave and around Price Chopper

unnamed (6)These are just a few of the people who are actively involved in making a difference in community.

If you couldn’t participate in a cleanup on any of these dates the City of Utica will work with you on another date.

We need to coordinate all cleanups taking place in the City of Utica so we can make sure everything you collect is picked up by DPW.

unnamed (7)Keep America Beautiful’ s Great American Cleanup is the country’s largest community improvement program that kicks off each spring and engages more than 4 million volunteers.

Great American Cleanup Registration Form

You can also register your group with the Oneida Herkimer Solid Waste Authority; visit http://www.ohswa.org/recycle/great-american-cleanup/.

By martha

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