Northeast News

June 15, 2016

KANSAS CITY, Missouri – The Blue Valley Neighborhood Association held a community cleanup event on Saturday, June 11, and they want to thank the dozens of neighborhood volunteers for making it all possible.

The neighborhood association sent away two completely full Kansas City compactor trucks, and also filled two donated dumpsters provided by the generous waste management service company, Junk Gobbler. Blue Valley Garden Coordinator Waunita Small and a crew cleared four pick-up loads of trash from one alley dump site, and Ron and Jacque Goddard not only distributed hundreds of flyers before the event, but continuously circulated the neighborhood picking up tires, mattresses and junk furniture from the curbs.

 In addition, Marleen Leonce and Michael Shaw from Kansas City Neighborhood Solid Waste arranged over two dozen special cleanups of dump sites and front yard garbage piles, and have made plans to attend to another dozen problem addresses found during the cleanup event.

Blue Valley Neighborhood volunteers accumulated a pile of over 150 tires that the city will sell to Sedalia, MO for their environmentally efficient power plant.

 Ridgewood Donuts in Independence was exceedingly generous with their donuts, pastries and fritters, as two churches, three community groups, the City dumpster crews, and all the workers had their sweet tooth well filled.

 The Blue Valley Neighborhood Association will host another community cleanup event in September with six city-contracted large dumpsters.