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Started 3 years ago by Anne
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Anne
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Please join us for the first Cleanup Day of 2009!
Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 10am
We will be cleaning up our adopted area of the I-670 Bike Path. Along Jack Gibbs Blvd, between Cleveland Ave and St. Clair Ave.
Meet & Park in the Fort Hayes School entrance, close to Cleveland Ave.

Tools provided.

New this year! Participants doing a Cleanup during the Great American Cleanup can enter to win two Troy-Bilt giveaways! Prizes are a Professional Quality 4-Cycle String Trimmer and a 4-Cycle Backpack Blower. Drawing will be held during the first week of June.

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Anne
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Map!

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Posted 3 years ago #
lifeontwowheels
Highland West
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Can't wait!

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byJody
Rural NW Columbus
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I'd help, but I will be at Startup Weekend Columbus II. Enjoy!

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Manatee
The eternal present
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Teehee, nice graphic Anne!

I can maybe do this this year :)

Posted 3 years ago #
HeySquare
German Village
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I should be there!

Posted 3 years ago #
nexttuesday

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I will totally be there. Hopefully it's nice out.

Posted 3 years ago #
dsigner
Worthington
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Y'all should also check out the Kick Butt cleanup this weekend (3/29)!

http://kickbuttcolumbus2009.eventbrite.com/

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dsigner
Worthington
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Whoops, meant 3/28... Saturday.

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HeySquare
German Village
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OK... I have to back out. Family is coming for an unexpected visit that morning. So sorry to miss it!

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brandi
Columbus, OH
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Hello, I teach tenth and eleventh grade, and I am encouraging my classes to participate in community service as one option for a project. This would not be a "school sponsored" event, but I wanted to know if this might be an option that I could offer to them as one volunteer opportunity. Are you taking volunteers?

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Anne
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Yeah, you can offer it. :)

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brandi
Columbus, OH
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Thanks! Hopefully I will see you there.

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Socialist Agenda
Columbus
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OK, I know it's last minute but I'm in! I'm really looking forward to this!

Posted 3 years ago #
Mercurius
First Avenue
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Nice job Anne

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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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Had fun today despite the cold start this morning. Warming up nicely now. :D

Thanks to everyone who came out to help! We'll have some photos posted soon!

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lifeontwowheels
Highland West
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Hopefully work won't call for the next one. Looks like you guys had a good day for it.

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Columbusite
Minneapolis
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Phew, those little bits of glass are elusive. Noticed some tiny pieces glistening on the way back. Oh well, I didn't get a flat on the short stretch I rode on up to 670, so I can vouch that it is somewhat bikeable now.

But this certainly demonstrates that a bike path next to a road is a bad idea, unless the city is going to spend thousands on a wall or a fence. Kind of defeats the purpose of using a trail instead of a road when you might have to take time to change multiple tubes for all the flats from so much glass and changing tubes is one of the biggest pains in the butt. I'd rather ride my bike Broad than do that, no joke.

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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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But what keeps broken glass off the street when riding on Broad as opposed to riding on a bike path located next to the street? I don't think proximity to the road really matters... I think that the fact that no one has ever cleaned up glass on this path before is what matters. This was the first time we had been given the right equipment to get it up.

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lifeontwowheels
Highland West
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If I am not mistaken, you can call 311 and they'll get the mini-Zamboni path sweeper out.

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