Jamie Pettit of KWB found lots of trash. Submitted photos
The always there Jim Miller.
Masked Mike Hill was there.
Terri McCarty helped with the clean up.
WimDems were on hand to clean up the local environment.
Group effort to keep Wimberley clean
The Keep Wimberley Beautiful, Wimberley Loins Club, the Mountain Crest community and about 70 community volunteers did their best to pick up all the trash around the major highways and also in neighborhoods on Saturday morning.
The City of Wimberley pitched in and did their part by providing dumpsters with Texas Disposal Systems to get rid of the winter’s trash and larger items lying around just waiting to be disposed of.
“The two dumpsters started to be filled at 7:30 a.m., the start time was supposed to be 8:30. We had to shut it down at 9:30 a.m., “KWB’s Sarah Attwood said. “Everyone was brilliant, the Lions Club, Kevin of TDS (with the garbage truck), everyone was in good spirits.”
Of the picked up trash, the items remained the same, wrappers, the usual tire or two, coffee cups, etc. Except for the new items that reflect the times, masks and disposal gloves now litter the highways.
“In one-tenth of a mile, I collected twelve facemasks and ten pairs of gloves. How do we combat that,” she said. “There were about four dumpsters total of trash, including two trips of the garbage truck.”
More community clean up projects like this are planned for the fall. KWB is talking to the city about scheduling more times like Saturday’s. “We’d like to do as many as possible Attwood said.