Great West Memphis Cleanup rescheduled

Great West Memphis Cleanup rescheduled

City Beautiful Commission sets new date for May 20

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Get your group together.

West Memphis City v issued a call to all civic and service organizations, church and youth groups, schools and clubs, scouts, families, neighborhoods and businesses to organize teams for the 2017 Keep West Memphis Beautiful campaign. The big day the city wide clean-up blitz was announced for Saturday May 6 but was ultimately rescheduled to Saturday, May 20 due to bad weather.

Take the two week delay to put together a group.

Activities aimed at beautifying parks, cleaning along roadside and ditches, collecting recyclables, picking up litter and planting flowers are part of the local effort. Robinson is the local event coordinator and offered encouragement to clean up the litter in the city and asked people to schedule the date.

“So much can be accomplished when we work together to keep West Memphis beautiful,” said Robinson. “Litter can leave a negative impact on the city for years to come. By participating in this year’s Great American Cleanup, local residents can help make West Memphis a vibrant community.”

The cleanup is being held in conjunction with the Keep America beautiful Great American Cleanup in Arkansas and the annual statewide litter pickup campaign promoted by Keep Arkansas Beautiful.

Registration is Saturday, May 20, from 8 a.m. – 8:30 a.m., at West Memphis City Hall, 205 S. Redding, with a free lunch after at 12:30 p.m.

By John Rech