Friday, May 31, 2002
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Friday, May 31, 2002 |
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Volunteers clean up Coweta Over 350 volunteers set out to make Coweta County a cleaner place to live, work, and play in the most successful cleanup ever. The Coweta County Environmental Management Office reported 379 volunteers turned out April 20th to take part in the Great American Cleanup 2002. Those volunteers worked a total of 764 hours making Coweta County cleaner. The volunteers picked up some 13.5 miles of roadway and cleaned up one illegal dumpsite located near a stream behind the Boys and Girls Club. The 2002 Cleanup netted 8,550 pounds of garbage and litterthat's the equivalent of 217 30-gallon garbage bags! The most numerous items picked up included fast food containers, cans, bottles, and cigarette packs. Groups and individuals participating in the Great American Cleanup 2002 in Coweta County included Cody Disque, Girl Scout Troop 31, Mrs. Powell and Mrs. Smith's classes at Atkinson School, Cub Scout Pack 53, the Carolyn Barron Montessori School, "Girls On The Move" from the Newnan Housing Authority. Other participants were White Oak Golden K Kiwanis Club, Demarris Hayes, Jacoric Horton, Coweta Christian Academy, Bridgett Moran, Craig Garmany, Erica Berry, Yolanda Dukes, Bianca Park, Megan and James Mendoza, Zuri Hudson, Patti Palmer, the Newnan Boys and Girls Club, Scout Troop 453, Katie, James, and Matt Weisbecker, the Newnan Kiwanis Club, Charter Communications, Break Away Child Care Center, Gingerbread House Girl Scout Troop 46, Barbara Neely, Kathy Humphrey, and David and Beverly Daniel. "Providing our community with the best possible quality of life requires a variety of strategies," said Faye Holloway of the Coweta County Environmental Management Office. "This year those strategies included rolling up our sleeves to clean and beautify our county so that it is an even better place to live and work. Coweta County works hard every day to keep our county clean and beautiful but support such as we saw on the Great American Cleanup Day assists those efforts by providing a major impact in a short amount of time. We know litter is a problem and we hope that individuals and organizations will make such cleanup efforts an ongoing project so the impact seen April 20th will be repeated throughout the year."
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