Wednesday Night Clean Ups . - North Bay Blooms

Wednesday Night Clean Ups 2010

Wednesday, 21 July Nipissing Green Party

       Thank you to Scott, Cindy, Tim, Ron, Marlene, Peter, Alastair, Monica & Mike from Cogeco, and all of the other members from the Nipissing Green Party who helped out with this weeks Wednesday night clean up.
   Covering Lakeshore Drive from the Best Western Hotel to Marshall Park Avenue a number of bags of litter were pulled from the roadside areas. Two shopping carts were dragged out of Parks Creek, cleaned up and returned to Metro Grocery store.
   This was North Bay Blooms last Wednesday night clean up for this summer so the apres clean up desserts and coffee at the White Owl were well deserved.
   Thank you to Scott Haig for helping organize the evening and hope to see everyone out again next year!

Wednesday, July 14 U Need a Cab

John Strang, owner of U Need a Cab, brought out their clean up crew again this year picking up around the Airport Road and Algonquin Avenue area. Thanks your help with tackling one of the more litter prone intersection areas in the City. John's secret for a good turn out is hot pasta and cold drinks at Casey's in appreciation of everyone efforts - great job everyone!

Wednesday, July 7 Community Living

Thanks to Tina, Mike, Jacklyn, Tammy, Vangie, Dan & Dave for helping with this weeks clean up. Focusing on Chippewa Creek as it runs through Thomson Park they managed to pull out three shopping carts, a bike frame and several bags of - mostly plastics - garbage. Celebrating with ice cold water - in paper cups - on one of this summer's heat wave days, was a great job by everyone. Thanks to Mike & Tammy for organizing and especially Jacklyn as this was her second year out helping.

Wednesday, June 30 Chamber of Commerce & Crime Stoppers

Chamber of Commerce & Crime Stoppers got together this week, toughed it out through the rain, and cleaned up around the Chamber offices and Seymour St. Chamber President Sean Lawlor noted there were still several areas that had a lot or roadside litter after we had finished and we may return to the Seymour St area again at some point. Pictured left to right - Chris, Sue, Peter, Anna, Guy, Sean, Patti, Tracey, Alyssia, James & Steve.

Wednesday, June 23 Union Gas

   It isn't easy being green. Rained out the week before, determined to make the best of it in between rain showers for the second week - thanks to Union Gas employees who helped clean up along Marshall Park this week.
   A couple of shopping carts, old wooden cart wheels, a bike, a bed frame, a stroller and a number of bags of litter were all picked up during the evening.  Marshall Park was the main focus of the clean up but both Booth Road and Parks Creek also received some needed attention.

Wednesday, June 9 Big Brothers Big Sisters

Meghan and the crew from Big Brothers Big Sisters will be back again this year for their third time to help with a Wednesday Night Clean Up. Thanks Meghan and we look forward to seeing everyone out again this year.

Wednesday, June 9 Kiwanis Aktion Club

   Crummy weather but great group of volunteers! The Kiwanis Aktion Club put on their rain coats and pitched in for a clean up around the Duchesnay Falls area. Although there were no large items like shopping carts or old tires - the 12 bags of litter picked up from the trails and parking area, mostly plastic bottles and food packaging - was still disappointing to find in what is one of the most popular sightseeing spots in North Bay.
   Thanks to all of the the Aktion Club members, Carmen, Kevin, Ernie, Laurie, Susan, William, Barbara, Richard, Ed, Diana, Michael, Paul, Peter, Alanis, Albert (we almost lost him in the woods) Eddie, Tracy & Jeanie for a great job!

Wednesday, May 19 Sea Cadets of North Bay

   Squadron 104 of the North Bay Sea Cadets did a great job partnering with North Bay Blooms and Tim Horton's Community Clean Up. Seven shopping carts, a bike, a bed frame, a couch, a lawn chair, a car battery, two tires and about thirty bags of litter were picked up along the Laurentian Avenue area and from the small creek running behind the shopping center.
   Thanks to Tim Horton's for providing t-shirts, bio-degradable bags and even a few refillable coffee mugs for the evening's volunteers. We even pulled out a couple of more shopping carts that had made there way into Chippewa Creek further downstream from Northgate.
   All in all a great clean up nights thanks to everyone for helping out!

Wednesday, May 12 Kiwanis Club of Nipissing

    President Mike Burke was pleased with a great turn out by Kiwanis Club of Nipissing members to help with the first Wednesday night clean up of the year. Bags of garbage, a shopping cart and two rubber tires were typical of most of the junk and litter that the clean up nights find.
   Special thanks to Dennis Chippa who safely removed a sharp needle syringe from a grassed area beside the bike path.
   Great job Kiwanis! Thanks for helping keep the bike path and Chippewa Creek area a little cleaner for everyone to enjoy. K iwanis may be back later this summer with the Aktion Club for a second clean up date - stay tuned for details if you care to help out.

Thank you to our 2009 clean ups teams!

   U Need a Cab
   Rotary Club of North Bay
   TD Friends of the Environment
   Lakeshore Evangelical Mission
   RBC
   Pulp & Paper Health & Safety Association
   Nipissing Stewardship Council
   Big Brothers Big Sisters
   Friends of La Vase Portages
   Association for Community Living

   Combined all of our volunteer groups for 2009 picked up almost 200 bags of litter, old couches, refrigerators, tires and assorted junk from around town. Thanks you to everyone who volunteered their time and especially the organizers at each business and for each group who rallied everyone together to make a difference.