Next
Trash Walk
Sunday October 4th, 2009
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Meeting Place
Slvermine School parking lot on Perry Avenue
Please join us for as much time as you can spare and help
tidy up Silvermine. If you can't make it, please do try to
clean up any common areas around your own property. Thanks!
Report on the Silvermine Spring 2009 Trash
Walk
The Silvermine Community Corps,
(SCC) were at it again this past Sunday April 26, 2009. Over
25 volunteers patrolled the streets throughout Silvermine
armed with latex gloves and 3 mils thick plastic bags,
picking up trash and any other object that was foreign to
the Silvermine natural landscape. Working from 1:00 to 4:00
over 20 bags of trash were brought back to the Silvermine
School where the City will cart them away. In addition to
the usual tally of soft drink and alcoholic beverage
containers, several tires were pulled from the woodline just
north of the Merritt Parkway overpass on Comstock Hill Road.
The haul of the day went again to our neighbors on Perry
Avenue who managed to pull old mattresses, metal containers
and discarded bags trash from the woods along Perry Avenue
at the Merritt Parkway underpass. While most or our
Neighborhood corps pulled trash off our community streets we
had several members who spent their afternoon removing the
invasive Ailanthus saplings, multiflora rose and honeysuckle
vines from the slope along the Silvermine School Drive.
In honor Earth Day, The Silvermine
Community Association, handed out small Sugar Maple trees
Acer saccharum, to all participants. The small trees were
provided in wrapped plastic to keep their roots moist, along
with information on the growth habit of the trees and
instruction for planting from Mussel Nurseries where the
trees were obtained. Sugar Maples are naturally occurring
tree species and are found throughout Silvermine, providing
shade during the hot summer months, habitat for birds,
amazing fall color and maple syrup for the homesteaders who
can weather the process.
The Silvermine Community
Association would like to thank all of our neighbors for
their efforts and commitment of time in helping to keep our
community clean. For our neighborhood friends who could not
make it to help us today. We ask that you spend a few
minutes and pick up trash that may have accumulated along
the front of your and your neighbor’s property. We are
finding that our efforts twice each year help in the overall
reduction in the amount of trash that accumulates along the
street. It is a phenomenon that is casually discussed as the
"broken window theory". Effectively the less trash we have
the less trash that accumulates. Along this same thought, it
is becoming important to address the graffiti at the
underpasses on Perry and Silvermine Avenues. Please support
us in our ongoing effort to combat this social degradation
of our community landscape.
photos from Previous Trash Walks
(click on a photo to enlarge)