I know, I know ... it's been pretty slow with posts around these parts. But there's still been lots of good trash out there!

On that note - please join us tomorrow - Saturday 9/15. The monthly clean up will tackle upper 9th and we'll be mulching and planting flowers into treeboxes.

Meetup at 9 & Q streets.
9 AM

See you there!

Our second Shaw Monthly Clean Up was a great success this past Saturday. We met at 9th & Q streets for some street cleaning - about 10 bags worth of trash in all. Then we moved on to the hard labor - planting a bunch of Liriope (monkey grass) into treeboxes along 9th street.

This was a successful collaboration with our clean up group and Shaw Main Streets (SMS). SMS coordinated with The Green Team and we were able to plant about 10-12 grass plants into more then 20 boxes.

We added plants to the 9th street corridor between P & Q and in the Ethiopian neighborhood between T & U.

Many people came out to give us thanks from Shiloh parishioners, business owners, and nearby residents. And Barry, from Nation Wide Insurance grabbed a shovel and got dirty with us - Thanks Barry!

Thanks to everyone who came out and supported our efforts! This is shaping up to a nice monthly project and every little effort helps clean up the streets in our community.

Photos - Shaw Monthly Clean Up - September 15th, 2007

Well, now that the Fall season is official in terms of the seasonal calendar (maybe not the temp.) it's time to ramp up the blog postings. Not just for the sake of having more content and more funny photos but I want to continue the growth of this site as launching pad to encourage a cleaner community. And to continue to explore thoughts and concepts around de-littering, city services, and grassroots clean ups.

Please contribute with additional thoughts to share, postings to explore, photos and more.