Date Set for Keep Virginia-Highland Beautiful Fall Clean-Up Event

Editor’s Note: Passing the following along from our friends at Keep Virginia-Highland Beautiful (KVHB).

It’s time for Keep Virginia Highland Beautiful’s fall neighborhood clean-up event and organizers are looking for your participation.

What: Volunteers will clear weeds, pick up trash, and remove stickers and handbills.

When: The event is scheduled for Saturday November 2nd from 8 AM – 12 Noon.

Where: Efforts will be focused on the N. Highland Ave. corridor, primarily in the Atkins Park and N. Highland/Virginia commercial nodes.

Please contact [email protected] to volunteer or sign up on the group’s Facebook event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/221805984647003/.

If you are aware of a church, youth, or other service group that is looking for a project, please contact organizers so they can coordinate supplies and assignments.

If you would like to self-organize to clean-up additional sections of the neighborhood, please let organizers know. In the past, groups have worked additionally around Orme Park and the Maiden Lane area.

Volunteers should bring work gloves, rakes, shovels, gas powered weed whackers and leaf blowers, and hand scrapers.

For businesses or individuals who would like to donate supplies, organizers need the following:

• Lawn & leaf bags (20 or more)
• Trash bags (one large box)
• Latex gloves (one box medium and one box large)
• Work gloves (10 pairs to be reused by volunteers)
• Broad spectrum weed killer (two containers with built in sprayers)
• A place to gather before – would be nice to have coffee for volunteers
• A place to gather after – would be nice to have some sort of post work refreshments for volunteers

Please contact us if you can make a donation or would like to offer your place of business as a gathering spot or to donate refreshments.

What else can you do?

Business and property owners are asked to take a critical look at the area from your front door to the street. Please make an extra effort to clean all the way to the street (including the curb area). Sweep up the cigarette butts and broken glass.

If you have a tree well in the right-of-way, how about making sure it is clear of weeds and buying a bag of mulch to make it look neat and keep the tree healthy?

For residents, this is a great time to make every part of the neighborhood look great – not just the commercial areas. Make sure the area in front of your home is groomed all the way to the street.

KVHB’s previous two events – in October 2012 and April 2013 – were very successful. Organizers are optimistic this November’s event will be the best ever.