Poplar Lawn Community Cleanup Day a Success!

Community Cleanup Day could not have been more beautiful: sunny with a breeze and friendly people dressed in safety orange vests.

We had some hard-working neighbors out there today. A group even worked crime prevention when they found a dumped pile of office garbage that had been stolen from a law office in Hopewell and dumped off of Jefferson Street. We started out with some coffee and donuts on Sycamore Street, and then everyone raked and shoveled and clipped plants and picked up trash and filled many bags with garbage and debris. Ralph rode his tractor and mowed several empty lots. Phil and Dave picked up all the neon orange trash bags and piles of brush in Dave's pickup, so it would all be gone for Garden Week.

Many, many thanks to Dave Alexander, Angie and Ralph (ROB!) Baldwin, Phil "Batman" Cheney, Tony Cooper, Judith Gruca, Kevin Johns, Suzette Kearns, Ralston Mims, Pam Roberts, Debra and Victor Robles, Amy Rizzo, and the guy cutting the grass with scissors on Marshall Street.

Ralph racing from vacant lot to vacant lot
Super Angie to the rescue!
Victor cleans up the neighborhood.
Debra is so fashionable, she always matches her safety vest to her trash bags.
Our new neighbor Judith joins in.
A team effort to clean up Jefferson Street.
Pam blows us all away with her power tools.
Suzette comes all the way from Richmond to help us clean up the neighborhood.

Dave and Phil cut back overgrown shrubs on Harrison Street.
Even the dogs help out in Poplar Lawn!

Ralston rakes up Marshall Street.

Tony 's set of wheel.Bright orange bags o' trash.

Pick up service is here...transporters of trash bags.