M.L. hosts city wide spring clean-up week

Meadow Lake is set for a good scrubbing. Spring cleanup and pitch-in weeks run from May 16 to 20 with the aim to make the city shine.

City manager Diana Burton said during spring clean-up, residents are offered a door-to-door service from the city’s public works department.

“It’s an opportunity for residents, when they’ve cleaned up their yards, to take yard waste – leaves, neat piles of smaller branches and stuff like that – (and put them) either in their back alley or if they don’t have a back alley then at the front of their yard…throughout the week our public works crews go around and pick those up,” she said.

Burton added the compost site is available to anyone wishing to drop loads off during the week.

Spring cleanup does come with a few rules. Public works crews will only pick up leaves, branches, grass and garden refuse in plastic bags. Branches should be cut into short lengths, then bundled or piled so they can be picked up by hand. Crews will do the pickups on the same day they do garbage and recycling pick-up. Residents are urged to have everything ready by 8 a.m. on pick-up day.

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“Plastic bags with leaves will be picked up first and we want to warn people branches might be there a little bit longer but it will all be picked up by the end of the week,” Burton said.

Running in conjunction with spring cleanup week, Meadow Lake is holding its second annual ‘pitch-in’ week where residents chip in to help clean the whole city.

“We send out letters and invitations to different community groups, different schools and we get groups to register and take on a certain section of the community where they go around and pick-up garbage in that area,” Burton said.

Burton said city council will be out, May 16 at 5:30 p.m. to clean down Centre St.

“We offer some packages containing helpful equipment like garbage bags, gloves and stuff like that and we offer the dumpster at the arena for them to put garbage in,” Burton said adding groups not able to drop garbage off at the arena can leave it at their location and crews will be out to pick it up the next day.

Last year’s inaugural pitch-in week saw roughly 700 participants and at least that many are expected to take part again this year.

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