Helping out the environment and the community just became more accessible. Auburn's Clean Sweep is just around the corner and it's a great way get out there and clean up the city.
The Parks, Arts & Recreation department is encouraging the citizens of Auburn to add their own special touch to the community.
Mike Bell, a Green River student, recounts last year's event saying, "it was fun and I met some really great people." This event has been happening for eight years, bringing the community together in an effort to beautify the city of Auburn.
"In previous years, the idea was to hide that ugly train yard with bushes and to cover up over 300 miles of graffiti that covers the city," Mike explains, "I can't wait to see this year's projects."
Clean Sweep 2010 will focus on major clean-up and beautification efforts downtown Auburn like clean-up up city medians, public right of ways, cleaning banners, sprucing up sidewalks and areas along the White River Trail and Interurban Trail.
With 29 developed parks, 2 skates parks, 2 water rotary parks, and over 23 miles of trails (including Auburn's 4.5-mile portion of the Inter-urban Trail), and almost 247 acres of open space for passive and active recreation, there is much to care for.
Although the project is limited to public land, it helps the Parks department clean up the places they can't take care of on their own as well as maintain the beauty of the places that they can.
The Kiwanis Club of Auburn is providing a breakfast that will consist of pancakes, fruit, juice and coffee. The event kicks off at 7:30 a.m. with the complimentary breakfast and a welcome by Mayor Pete Lewis, then the ceremonial sidewalk sweep down Main Street. After that the teams will split up and go to pre-assigned locations to begin the beautification.
Julie Brewer is the person in charge of the project. She is the Special Programs and Marketing Manager for the parks department. Mayor Pete Wilson also has a hand in this project and said at a home-owners association meeting in Lakeland Hills last year that "Auburn is a place that cares and we won't stand for graffiti in our neighborhoods, community or city."
Within city limits there is a serious graffiti problem and the city council has set up a Graffiti Removal Assistance Program, a place where people can go if there is graffiti on their property.
This amazing and opportunistic event is too important to miss, to make it easy to join: there are three ways to sign up for the event, online, by mail, or by fax.
Contact Julie Brewer directly at (253)931-3043.
Or you can just show up on May 8th to Auburn City Hall, 25 West Main Street at 7:30 a.m.
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