With Earth Day just around the corner Hope residents are once again invited to help keep this corner of the world clean.
Hosted by Hope Communities in Bloom (HCiB), for a fourth year a community clean-up event is planned, this time on April 20. Starting at 9:30 a.m. and going till 2 p.m., locals interested in volunteering are asked to meet at Memorial Park to pick up trash and help keep the town clean and beautiful.
“This will be our fourth year doing this,” said Mayor Victor Smith. “I think we’re making a difference. People are concerned about doing this (recycling) right and this way we’re making an avenue (to do that).
Gloves, garbage bags, vests, and pick-up sticks will all be provided, free of charge.
In addition to the trash pick-up, residents are also being asked to bring and drop-off “special recyclable items.” Just like last year, people can come by the park and drop-off their: batteries, cellphones, commercial and automotive batteries, scrap metal, reading prescription glasses, pesticides, and household paint and spray paint.
Volunteers will be onsite to sort the items and help locals with their drop-offs, if needed.
Aside from the park event, Kal Tire is once again holding a tire and rim drop off for passenger light truck, wheelbarrow, and ATV tires. The rim and tires can be brought to the Hope Kal Tire between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
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