If you've been looking for an excuse to clean up or see an area of town you’d like to see cleaned up, Emporia Clean Sweep offers the perfect opportunity to clean up the community we all live, work and play in.
Emporia Clean Sweep is a series of four weekends that run on Sept. 18 and 19 and 25 and 26; and October 2-3 and 9-10. There will be free dumpster drop off for several items including appliances, tree limbs/brush, couches/furniture, boards/building materials, computers/monitors/batteries, paint/cleaners and even trash. There will be two dumpster areas in each of the four zones.
With the wide range of free items being taken at dumpster areas in four zones, it seems there is no excuse to not clean up Emporia during those days.
Emporia residents should be proud of the community they live in and help keep the community clean. The City of Emporia is deferring their costs up to $20,000 in manpower and other services to help with the Emporia Clean Sweep. The city should be commended for their efforts in making this a success.
There are several ways to help with Emporia Clean Sweep. Manpower is needed for Emporia Clean Sweep as well as clean up materials, water and treats for workers and money is needed to help with the estimated $40,000 price tag of Clean Up Emporia. If you can’t work, donate. If you can’t donate, work. If you can’t do either, help provide with clean-up materials or cook a nice treat for workers. Either way, it’s important to get involved in this community-wide clean-up project. It’s another way to take pride in the Emporia community.
For more information or to become involved, contact the Clean Sweep hotline at 343-4275.
Brandy Nance
Reporter
trashman (anonymous) says...
Let's get this straight, KVOE's says chemicals have to go to another location--not everthing is accepted !!! True or Not?
Also does anyone know the exact boundaries for each weekends cleanup? I must have missed that someware
probably since I only read the gazette on line.
September 17, 2009 at 12:44 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
builderboy (anonymous) says...
. trash man please call the number provided and they will help you. If you need help carrying things to the curb or to the location provided they will also help with finding people to help. I believe what kvoe was referring to was that they need to go to the hazardous waste building. there again if anyone needs help please call the number provided. This is a great opportunity for the entire city to take a little more pride city wide and haul off debris or trash
September 17, 2009 at 3 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
oh4theluvof (anonymous) says...
Are the people who have all this junk really going to part with it? Not to be skeptical,but it seems to me that if they wanted it hauled off, they would have done it. I can understand the elderly or infirm not being able to do it themselves, but most of them who really, truly want it done, find someone to do it.
Don't get me wrong, I really do hope to see improvements, but knowing how possessive people are of their junk around here, I have to question the reality .
September 17, 2009 at 3:22 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
dale011 (anonymous) says...
Where do we take old computers and monitors?
September 17, 2009 at 3:29 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
deluvly1 (anonymous) says...
Search this site, it was Tuesday's edition I believe, and PLEASE read the responses to ‘Let’s Get This Done’ By Russ Morgan...
There is some great opining on this subject...
September 17, 2009 at 3:55 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
oh4theluvof (anonymous) says...
All I read in those comments were frustrated citizens, like myself, who get rid of the stuff we don't want in the proper ways, and then find ourselves picking up after the masses who really don't care. In my opinion, for every one person who cares what the town looks like and takes responsibility for their trash, there are about ten who don't. Driving through town, looking at homes and yards, it's not hard to deduce that. When people don't pick up trash from their own yards, you can be sure they don't care at all. When people don't mow frequently, dispose of brush that accumulates and won't trim their hedges or trim around buildings, etc. you can bet they don't care.
I appreciate the attempt being made here, but I'm betting all the alleys will still be overgrown because people won't mow past the fence or ditch-line and weeds will still be growing up around a variety of run-down sheds and junk piles. Bushes and hedges will still remain unkempt and people will still toss their trash anywhere.
Oh, and still, only about three people in town will bother pushing their cart all the way into the proper formation in the Walmart cart stalls because they are much to important and busy to do anything more than take it to the threshold of the stall. For some, even that is too demanding.
On a somewhat related side-line, I find it very ironic to hear the schools drill the children on the "respectful" motto and then go out in public and see the abundance of disrespectful actions coming from most of the citizens but most notably from the power status.
September 17, 2009 at 4:59 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
deluvly1 (anonymous) says...
oh4theluvof
What a GREAT post! Thank you...well said. By the way, the people you mention who are "too busy" are the same ones who can't really stop at stop signs, who can't wait their turn at 4-way stops, and who simply must talk---or text---on their cell phones while driving. Gosh, they do look so important, though, I am almost sad that I can drive across town without getting a single call...and if by chance I do, I can actually wait till I'm at my destination before I unholster my phone and return the call. After watching some of the antics of downtown drivers a friend of mine visiting from Dallas said she must assume that everyone in Emporia is an on-duty cardiac surgeon. It was the only explanation for the hurry they appeared to be in.
September 18, 2009 at 11:08 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )