Coatesville Community Clean-Up Recap

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Coatesville Community Clean-Up Recap: Our 30 volunteers did it with style on 11/9 cleaning up Rt 82 and business 30/ Lincoln Highway. The 11/9 environmental impact for the litter clean up of Coatesville: 168 bags of litter, 5 TVS, 6 bikes, 1 baby stroller, 1 lawn mower, 8 tires, and over 300 political campaign and business yard signs. Shout out to:  Coatesville 2nd Century Alliance Shakira Davis for organizing our event and working closely with the Litter Lifters of West Vincent; Kelly McDowell, who runs a group called People Who Use Trash Cans, drove with her family from Lancaster county to volunteer for Round 2; Evan Bumbarger– solid volunteer- and Aidan Place- OJR High School student in an  International Baccalaureate program, who drove from West Vincent township to the Coatesville area to assist at this important clean up; Evan and Sharon who picked up all our piles of yard signs – Sharon will be taking 300 signs to Caln Township to participate in the Keep Chester County Beautiful campaign recycling event. Special thanks to; City of Coatesville Police Department and Lieutenant Ollis; ; PA State Police Trooper McKee, who not only provided safety support but drove our volunteers back to the Marriott; Coatesville City Hall for purchasing litter crew ahead signs and working with the officers who kindly set up the signs, and creating their own volunteer waiver;  Roberta Cosentino,  Asst City Manager and Vincent Miles, Govt and Public Affairs, for volunteering; Coatesville Area School District Megan Levan and her students; Coventry Environmental Inc. owner Steve Ohrwaschel who provided water and volunteered the entire day; Sharon Nash Yates, Supervisor for Valley Township for volunteering a 2nd time; Susan Springsteen, business owner of H2O Connected, for volunteering;  Wawa for providing hoagies and chips; Marriott in Coatesville; Animated Brewing; the Little Chef Kings TavernWhite Glove in ExtonAJ Blosenski/Waste Connections; Chophouse Grill of Exton; Wegmans; Turkey Hill;  Penndot for hauling away all of our piles. When our local government, residents, and businesses work together,  great things will happen.

 

To volunteer for the Coatesville Area clean ups, email Shakira@2ndcenturyalliance.org  
Coatesville is building their volunteer base just like the Litter Lifters did over the last 4 years!
The total # of bags and litter collected for Coatesville from 2 events:
Sept 21, World Clean Up Day, and Nov 9 is 427 bags, 34 Tires, 5 TV’s, 6 bikes, 1 lawn mower, 1 baby stroller, and over 300 yard signs!