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Lady and I got rolling a little bit late, but we got out and cleaned for a few hours nonetheless. We arrived at Schuylkill River Park at 25/Locust Sts around 9.40a and grabbed some of the large brown bags and got to work. It was great to see that most people were making the extra effort to sort the junk from the recyclable junk. Paper, glass, plastic, aluminum were put into designated bags while the lovely mossy clothes, plastic bags, food containers, needles and whathaveyou were put into others.

In the area where we cleaned (between Chestnut and Locust Sts) I'd say there were a solid 50 – 75 people. The park runs up to Race St so I'm gonna assume there were, at least, an additional 75+ people. I had a good time out there picking up other people's shit. But the most fun I had was chucking the full bags of other people's shit into the dump truck. There were a dozen of us around when the truck came around to the 25/Locust entrance. We got to work and it was done pretty quickly and the truck moved on up the running path.

The next day, Lady and I cleaned up our house. A good scrubbing all over the house was needed and it got it. We've been putting it off for awhile now, but we put our minds to it following the bigger cleanup effort.

Some photos of my friend Kevin's cleanup area in Point Breeze starting here.

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