Pitch-In Smiths Falls

April 19 - May 2, 2010

"Operation Clean Sweep"

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2009 Totals

• 1099 people participated
• including 20 community groups and 6 schools
• collecting 282 bags of garbage
• and 37 bags of recyclables
• and lots of other junk
• cleaning up over 50 sites across Smiths Falls

2009 Participants

Missed Spots

If you meant to get out and do a spot and didn't, here are a few areas that we didn't get to:

• Harold at Broadview - entrance to path
• opposite Mausoleum on Hwy 29 from Van Horne to cemetary - cemetary side especially
• Alexander - from Union/Hwy 15 to Rideau St., esp. ditch on Alexander
• Montague St.
• Victoria St., Foster to Montague
• Rideau Avenue - Lorne to Matheson
• Jones and Bourke - grassy, bushy spot
• Old Mill Road - Main St. To water tower (is really bad on water tower side- perhaps just do strip closest to road)
• William St. W. Near REAL Deal - railway museum side Cornelia to William
  

Some of the junk collected by SFDCI students.

Background

Pitch-in Smiths Falls is a community wide litter cleanup coordinated by REAL. Public and highly visible sites, such as parks, and road allowances, are identified by REAL and groups or individuals assigned to clean that site. Garbage bags, other supplies and safety instructions are provided. REAL records the number of participants and the number of bags of recyclable and other garbage collected for comparison from year to year.

REAL is working with the Town of Smiths Falls and others to find other measures that will reduce our litter problem.

2009 marked the eighth year for this community wide effort, although REAL has participated in spring cleanups and encouraged other residents to do so since 1989 through Pitch-in Canada, a national organization founded in British Columbia.

To see a PDF file of general and safety instructions, and group leader report sheet, click here.

See our Pitch-In 2006 Scrapbook.

See Pitch-In Canada site.