Cluster Two Cleaners Heroic (and Lonely)

Like a lot of Milwaukeeans, on Saturday morning, April 18, Harambee residents participated in the Great American Cleanup. One group of fifteen heroic neighbors took to the streets of Cluster Two with rakes, shovels and garbage bags. In the picture at the left, you can see a lonely worker giving the gutters a raking.

With only fifteen helpers, they didn't cover nearly all the ground they had hoped to - they had expected fifty people, based on the responses they had received to their flyers, phone calls and personal requests. Still, they were able to gather over forty garbage bags full of winter's leftovers. And, undeterred, they're busy planning their next cleanup (and looking forward to their community garden planting next Saturday).

If you would like to volunteer or bring a community service group to help clean up in Cluster Two, or in any of the other Harambee neighborhoods, please contact Nannette Smith. The next HGNI cleanup is scheduled for May 9 in Richards Hill.