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Selected events from 2022 and 2023
December 2023
Roadside Surprise
Dec 1
Picked up a queen size mattress from the side of the road and hauled it to the transfer station.
Withheld details until publishing this: https://youtube.com/shorts/WFR83zaxa40?feature=share
Russell Creek
Dec 9
Cleaned along a few miles of the bike path and creek. Found lots of Styrofoam and a few of these mystery necklaces: https://youtube.com/shorts/ysqCVW8_tcQ?feature=share
Watters Creek
Dec 16
Similar to the Russell Creek event, but at Watters Creek behind the Watters Creek Village shopping area. Filled the new gorilla cart. I wouldn't have been able to do this much with the old plastic wagon.
November 2023
Mustang Creek
Nov 3
Fishing and cleaning like usual.
One interesting catch: https://youtube.com/shorts/d6ZZsokgCvs?feature=share
Post-Halloween Clean
Removing candy wrappers from the neighborhood a few days after Halloween.
Mustang Creek
Nov 11
October 2023
Mustang Creek
Oct 14
Just a tiny bit of fishing and then almost two hours of getting after it with two people and we had about 33 bags worth of litter. One of our biggest hauls ever!
Check out the doggy helping us clean the creek: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/td3hB17dLNw
Lewisville Lake
Kayak and cleanup at Eastvale Park in the Colony on Lewisville Lake
Allen Park ponds
Oct 21
10 bags of trash across 3 different Allen Park ponds. A few Youtube shorts about it:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7ProN_o7Qy0
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dXMzp4TggtI
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FYhaO0RBTFM
September 2023
Mustang Creek
Sept 2
I did a couple hours of fishing and cleanup, loving that the temp was below 80. A two minute summary is here:
Trinity River Kayaking
Sept 9
I spent a few hours cleaning the Trinity River with the Dallas Downriver Club. We got in and out at McInnish Park in Carrollton. There were about a dozen boats and we removed a lot of trash from the river.
Erwin Park
Sept 30
Six volunteers cleaned County Road 1006 just outside the park, removing 49 pounds of litter (20 bags plus a few large items). Then a couple of us road the mountain biking trail. It was a great event and I'm sure we will do it again!
July & August 2023
McKinney City Parks
July 22
We cleaned up and fished at Erwin Park and Al Ruschhaupt Park in McKinney. I had a little fun with this find: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MLY9xMv_VZk
Mustang Creek
Aug 6
Two video summaries to choose from:
20 second short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UT59IW7URGM
or about 3 minute version with more details:
May & June 2023
Allen High School Parking Lot
May 27
We cleaned up the parking lots a bit the morning after graduation. Found 3 different airpods that had been lost and run over. Removed 8 bags of litter in total.
Allen City Parks
May 28 & 29
We cleaned up 3 days in a row over Memorial Day Weekend. We worked at Bethany Ridge Park and North Bethany Lake Estates park on May 28 and at Bethany Lakes Park on May 29. See part of the May 28 event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T56gMkD20wk
Lake Lavon Park-and-Fish site
June 10
We cleaned up the bank fishing area and some of the parking area at this popular and heavily littered fishing site.
April 2023
Earth Day @ Ray Roberts Greenbelt
April 22
We did some cycling and cleanup along the greenbelt between the Greenbelt Corridor Park and the Ray Roberts Trailhead. The trail itself was pretty clean, so we spent some time picking up on the riverbank at the trailhead and roadside on FM 455 near the Ray Roberts Dam.
Adopt-a-highway on Bethany in Allen
April 29
Lila, Wyatt, and I covered our adopted section of Bethany on Saturday afternoon. We collected 8 grocery bags of litter plus a bunch of large items like cardboard boxes, boards, tire pieces, etc.
February & March 2023
Kayaking Lavon from Twin Groves Park
March 25
We set out from the boat ramp at Twin Groves Park and headed for the nearest creek. It was very narrow and lined with trees making it difficult to pass through in some places. The weather was great and we collected 5 bags of litter from the creek and shoreline.
Rowlett Creek Kayaking and Clean up
Feb 26
We enjoyed a great day of paddling and removed 15 bags of litter from the creek. We tied the bags to ropes and pulled them around like fish on stringers. It worked reasonably well, though the bags were waterlogged by the end.
January 2023
New Year's Resolution Walk
Jan 1
19 bags of litter collected over 7.1 miles of roadways on the east side of Allen. We hit 5 city parks in the loop where we could get rid of the trash we had collected by putting it in public trash cans. It was a big success and good training for future hikes. Watch for a west Allen park loop event coming soon.
Lavon Lake Spillway clean up
Jan 3
This is a place we could take dozens of volunteers to! There is so much trash. But I did a little surveying for future events and removed over 30 pounds of litter.
Lavon Lake Kayak Clean up
Jan 16
A micro-adventure kayaking through a cove and up a creek, collecting trash from the water and the shore. We found some interesting things. Watch the summary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAuu4jX3xxQ
December 2022
Mustang Creek Cleanup
Dec 2
9 pounds / 7 bags of trash removed from around Mustang Creek on Dec 2, 2022
Mustang Creek Cleanup
Dec 11
13 pounds / 11 bags of trash removed from around Mustang Creek on Dec 11, 2022
Bethany Dr Cleanup
Dec 18 @ 2pm
29 pounds removed from this section of the roadway, including 10 pounds of iron pieces for recycling
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