By Sebastian Strauss, Pack 1859 Webelos
On Sunday, April 25th 2021, dozens of LRR residents, including many Pack 1859 Cub Scouts and their families, spent the morning searching near waterways for hidden trash. We did this to clean our environment.
In total, we picked up 90 bags of garbage plus carpets, blankets, metal, and more. According to a post by Ned Foster in the Little Rocky Run Neighbor-to-Neighbor Facebook Group, “…This was the largest amount of trash picked up in any LRR clean up that I have ever participated in. The previous record was 78 bags by Boy Scout Troop 577 about ten years ago.”
The organizers of the LRR Neighborhood Clean Up included Sean Craft (my soccer coach!), Jeff Miller, Linda Isaza (Pack 1859 Cubmaster and Webelos Den Leader), and Ned Foster.
I learned that it is helpful for the environment and the animals to remove bottles, diapers, plastic bags, tarps, old tennis balls, candy wrappers, and discarded masks from the sewers. I didn’t like how polluted our neighborhood was, but I was glad we were able to help remove some of the garbage.
Picking up garbage with my friends Andrew and Carter and their Dads was a lot of fun. My favorite part was admiring the work we did in the neighborhood.
