North Bay cleans up

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Despite the cold damp weather Saturday morning Almost 100 volunteers from groups such as St Bryce's Creation Keeper's, Big Brothers Big Sisters and others from around town turned out and pitched in for the morning clean up around Tim Horton's Mckeown Avenue, Marshall Park and Northgate Shopping center locations

North Bay Blooms Chair Kathryn Takacs and Tim Hortons representative John McLellan were delighted with the great turnout for this year’s Community Clean Up Day. Volunteers collected almost 100 bags of litter, broken chairs, bike frames and discarded shopping carts. And again disposable plastics - either bags or containers for everything from bottled water to windshield washer fluid continue to comprise the bulk of the litter.

This year hearing the warnings from area groups about what plastic water bottles are doing to the environment, Tim Hortons manager Brandon Moffat provided water coolers for volunteers with paper cups rather than the usual plastic bottled water.

The Saturday cleanup also launched North Bay Bloom’s weekly Wednesday evening cleanup campaign. Over the next 8 weeks, if you or your group would like pitch in and help out - please go to www.northbayblooms.com for more information.