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Shockoe Bottom clean-up this Saturday
The Shockoe Bottom Neighborhood Association is holding the First Ever Shockoe Bottom Neighborhood Clean-Up this Saturday from 10am to 1pm.
We will meet at The 17th Street Farmers Market located at 17th and Main St in Historic Shockoe Bottom. (We will be at the Franklin St side)
To beautify our neighborhood, we will be picking up trash, removing illegal signs, and taking note of graffiti and blighted properties.
The Clean City Commission and Department of Public Works are supplying us with pick-up sticks and trash bags. Please wear comfortable clothes and shoes that you don’t mind getting dirty and bring gloves. If you are unable to join us for the entire clean-up, we encourage you to help clean your block, building front, favorite hang-out or provide refreshments for our volunteers. – water, lemonade, snacks, etc.
Parking is available for volunteers at the Farmers Market parking lots located at 17th and Grace and 18th and Grace.
For more information, please contact Heather Truong at 804-301-0287 or heather@fountainheaddevelopment.com.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you can’t stay for the entire clean-up, please clean-up your favorite bar/restaurant or donate bottled waters or snacks for the volunteers. The City of Richmonds Department of Public Works is sending a graffiti crew, a tree trimming crew, 2 pothole repair crews, 2 crews to clean the storm drains and 5 garbage trucks. Council Women McQuinn and Robertson are expected to be there as well as Channel 12 and the Times Dispatch.
WOW! The Shockoe Bottom Neighborhood Associations’ Clean-up was a HUGE success!!! The area between 15th Street to 25th Street, from Broad Street to the Canal were cleared of litter, graffiti, illegal signs, the trees trimmed, storm drains cleaned, potholes filled and sidewalks fixed. There is still much to do but WOW what a start! Thank you to all of those who participated including Mayor Doug Wilder, Ellen McQuinn, Delores Robertson, the City of Richmonds’ Department of Public Works. A special thank you to the 17th Street Farmers’ Market, to Richmond Police Departments’ 1st Precinct Lt. Emmet Williams, Officer George Mihalcoe, Sgt. Robert Kin, to Shockoe Bottom bussineses Fountainhead Development~Services, Historic Housing, Main Street Leasing, American Heritage Buildiing, Market Villas Apartments, The Old City Bar, Sumo San, River City Diner, Haunts of Richmond, Pearl, 321 Supper Club and ALL who participated!
ps. please contact me if you would like me to share contact information for the Department of public works or if you would like help organizing a neighborhood clean-up
I can testify that neighborhood clean-ups are really worthwhile…
My husband Jim & I have been chairs for the CHA bi-annual “Alley Rallys” that are in coordination with the Clean City Commission, Dept of Public Works.
Twice a year on Saturdays from 8:00am til 12:00pm, in June and early Dec. we coordinate a clean-up of Church Hill South and Church Hill North. The city provides us with 3 garbage trucks and 3 public works employees to help us.
One truck covers the south of Broad and the other 2 cover the north of Broad. We usually have about 15 volunteers show up. We post the notice in the CHA newsletter and we also have a data base of former volunteers that we contact a few days before the event.
It’s a huge success. When we started doing this with the CHA 13 years ago, when Kim Johnson was the coordinator, many of the alleys were really scary!
Now, most of the alleys look pretty good, although it’s an ongoing process and must be maintained.
If you want to have a clean and safe program for your neighborhood (Union Hill and others) call Billie Raynes with the Clean City Commission, 646-6785. She will scedule your clean-up date and send out flyers for you to distribute and schedule the trucks and workers. It’s all free!