This fall’s Clean Up Before Freeze Up has been a huge success. Together, from October 9-11, we picked up 150+ bags of trash and recycling all around Bethel. Below are just some of the faces behind the operation- quyana to ALL!!
Our first group of volunteers filled 9 bags!!
Elle Loughlin, Eleanor Oser, Tanner Condit, and Lily Merrigan were some of our volunteers cleaning up. They collected over a dozen bags of trash from Ptarmigan!
Staff and family at the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge cleaned up in Brown’s Slough. Shoutout to Gisela Chapa, the Community Engagement specialist at the Refuge, for hopping into the water to get a tire!
The team at Arctic Chiropractic collected 9 bags of trash today around their office!
James Reams, teacher at BRHS and baseball coach for the junior high, cleaned up the pathway by the 4-H Club.
Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission Executive Director Mary Peltola and her sons and neighbors have collectively thrown out 15+ bags of trash this weekend! Quyana for making City Sub that much cleaner.
The Trimble family picked up 4 bags of trash around Uiviq subdivision!
The Jackson family collected 7 bags of trash and recyclables around Alligator Acres this weekend. We’re grateful for all the help we’ve received from everyone in our city!
Throughout the weekend, 5 families within Hoffman sub collected 15 bags of trash! Here are Jenette and Jeremiah Robson adding their young power to this effort.
The King family cleaned up 14 bags worth of trash from Kasayuli!
And finally, quyana to Kara Black and Terese Schomogyi for putting this whole operation together! Below are some photos of them working hard to clean up Ptarmigan and keep trash out of our water!
A special Quyanaqvaa to our donors- AC and Fili’s Pizza for providing us with gloves and free pizza vouchers for ALL of our volunteers, as well as to Beverly Hoffman for giving us pool passes to hand out to our prize winners!!
Until next time…
