Silvermine Spring Trash Walk
a success!
 

 

Rounding up the Rubbish...
Roughly 30 Silvermine neighbors met at the Silvemine Elementary School on Perry Avenue in Norwalk on Saturday, April 26th. Everyone was provided with gloves and trash bags as part of the semi-annual trash walk along the roadways of Silvermine. Grouped in teams of three to five, crews were assigned different Silvermine streets to clean.

The four hour effort sent a volunteer army of temporary sanitation ambassadors throughout the neighborhood. The streets cleaned included Silvermine Avenue, Silvermine Road, Musket Ridge, Bourglum and Mill Roads, Comstock Hill Road James Street and Perry Avenue. Over thirty bags of trash were collected from these roadways, including a lawnmower and several abandoned tires.

The trash collection award this year goes to the Team No. 2 whose several hour effort at the Merritt Parkway overpass on Perry Avenue yielded four mattresses and box springs, several carpets, wood pallets, more than eight filled contractor size trash bags, two patio umbrellas and a golf course tea flag from the Silvermine Golf Course which local district representative Doug Hempstead and Kelly Straniti will return.

Thanks to the hearty good nature of our volunteers, the roads through Silvermine have been restored to their natural pristine beauty!

 

Our heartfelt thanks goes out to all volunteers!
Please join us in the Fall..

The Silvermine Community Association will host the next trash walk in the Autumn. Until then, please keep your own corner of our beautiful Silvermine beautiful.

 

photos from the April 26th 2008 Trash Walk
(click on a photo to enlarge)