Happy (Late) Earth Day

This year, on the weekend before Earth Day, I participated in Parkmead’s Annual Earth Day clean-up of the neighborhood.

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This year, on the weekend before Earth Day, I participated in Parkmead’s Annual Earth Day clean-up of the neighborhood. We checked in many families that came to help clean up trash in the Parkmead area, along the entrance to the Olympic freeway entrance and along South Main.

The Clean Up Crew (see above) also lent some supporting hands. It was a great time for a great cause and it always feels good to clean up the place where I live and the town I love so much! Earth Day is a really important holiday, as it reminds us to take care of this one planet we all call home.

I also thought this was a timely and interesting article, which includes all the full moons and meteor showers we’ve had and can expect. Check it out if that kind of stuff interests you! A gift from Mother Earth! Did you do anything fun for Earth Day? Did you volunteer anywhere? Let me know in the comments!

Celebrate Earth Day With Our Shred Event!

This Saturday is Earth Day! I’m holding a Shred Event with JVM Lending allowing for a green-friendly way to dispose of your old papers. Join us from 9:30-11:30 a.m. in the Tice Creek Parking Lot (1847 Newell Ave. in Walnut Creek) to participate!

This is in conjunction with the Parkmead Community Association (PCA) Earth Day clean-up around the Parkmead neighborhood. Donations are appreciated and will support the PCA in its annual events. As you’ll see on the poster below, there are several things to consider when destroying your documents. Shredlogix will take care of most of it, but please follow those basic tips in the green box.

I encourage you to take part in the Shred Event and the Earth Day clean-up. There will be complimentary donuts and coffee, but the real treat is doing something good for the planet on this special day. And, again, I want to thank JVM Lending and Shredlogix, who are partnering on this event with me. I hope to see you there!

Community Earth Day Event!

On Earth Day, I teamed up with a bunch of neighbors through Parkmead Community Association and event organizer Karen of The Cleanup Crew to walk around Parkmead and pick up trash. We focused on the main neighborhood, Parkmead Elementary school, and the 680 on-ramp right near there.

We picked up a ton of trash and even got four additional bags’ worth on the on-ramp. Someone dumped some of their own trash on the side of the ramp, which CalTrans will come by and pick up. We had lots of families, so the ones with small kids cleaned at the school and Tice Creek.

We worked under the underpass by Kaiser and there was lots of trash on Lilac, including many cigarette butts (they have to go off property to smoke). Nobody really cleans around that area, or into the chain-link fenced area across from Hickory Pitt by the Kaiser offices.

Karen (“The Litter Lady”) has been coordinating trash clean-up in Walnut Creek for some time and gave an intro. She was wonderful, and it was a day well spent making our little slice of the town look beautiful again. Please take care of our home and throw your trash away!