Great news Canterbury! 2024 was the year everyone decided that throwing trash out their vehicle windows was a bad idea, so there’s no trash on the roadsides, and therefore no reason to hold our annual Townwide Roadside Cleanup Day this spring.
Well, not really, which is why we’re holding, yet again, Townwide Roadside Cleanup Day on Saturday, April 19th. Just let me know at mattieandriley@yahoo.com what section of Canterbury’s byways you want to remove the litter from, pick up some blue bags, either from me or the Transfer Station, pick up the litter, maybe on the organizing day, maybe on a nice weather day, maybe on a day when you’re just plain sick and tired of looking at Bud Lite cans, and bring the litter to the Transfer Station.
You don’t have to let me know if you plan on participating, but there are two benefits. First, I can let you know whether you can expect to find any trash out there, because someone else may have already signed up for that stretch of road.
When people let me know, I reach out to them in subsequent years to see if they’re still interested. And two, I can add your name to the list that I give to the Transfer Station staff of people who have signed up to participate, and you don’t have to be taking pictures of things like computer monitors, tires, toilets, and construction waste that show up along our roads.
~ Patrice Rasche
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