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Northeast residents didn’t shy away from the Northeast community-wide clean-up April 28.
Just an hour after the clean-up began, city workers hauled away two full dumpsters from the Indian Mound location and from Concourse Park, said Leslie Caplan, Scarritt Renaissance Neighborhood Association president.
Scarritt Renaissance residents Richard Descamps and his son, Jacob, scoured the neighborhood, loading trash in their pickup truck.
“We do it all the time,” Descamps said of keeping the neighborhood clean.
In all, the Descamps filled their truck 12 times with heaping piles of trash and unloaded it at the trash compactor at Concourse Park.
“They have been so helpful all morning long,” Caplan said. “We’ve had probably four or five people like that who just showed up to dump and kept going back for more, driving through the neighborhood.”
Caplan also commended Marleen Leonce of the city, who helped Northeast secure a trash compactor once she saw how quickly residents were filling the dumpsters that day.
“I think it’s been hugely successful,” Caplan said. “Everything went smoothly. We had a great turnout. A lot of neighbors came out and helped, which was wonderful. They are really committed to seeing a much better neighborhood and they really proved it.”
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