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Selected Past events
January / February 2026
Adopt-a-highway
Jan 31
Helped organize a highway cleanup on Estates Parkway with Grace Church. Somebody had knocked their sign down...
Mustang Creek
Feb 7
Another productive cleanup at Mustang Creek.
Mustang Creek
Feb 28
Yet another productive cleanup at Mustang Creek
December 2025
Lavon Dam
Dec 6
Cleaned 3 small areas littered heavily by anglers at the spillway. Overall, barely made a dent as I could have filled 20 more bags if I tried to clean the whole spillway in one visit.
Bonnie Wenk Park
Dec 13
This was part of the monthly cleanup organized by One Earth One Chance. I just joined as a participant. I found a basketball in the creek that was basically brand new. Still aired up and everything. No name or phone number, or I would have tried to return it.
Oak Point Park
Dec 13
We organized a cleanup for the local chapter of Climate Reality. They were an awesome group with great enthusiasm and work ethic. We removed a ton of plastic from Oak Point Park. Okay, actually sixteen 13-gallon bags totaling 114 pounds.
November 2025
Annual Candy Wrapper Cleanup
Nov 1
Picked up a bunch of candy wrappers, and quite a few unopened candy items, lost costume pieces, and other items lost on Halloween.
Allen Clean Out the Creek
Nov 22
The City of Allen put on a great event cleaning Cottonwood Creek. They had probably close to 100 volunteers, lots of equipment, and lunch. Serious event!
October 2025
Cleanup at the 75 access road
Oct 4
It is finally getting a little bit more comfortable early in the morning! Three volunteers cleared over 230 pounds of litter from the access road and the woods and drainage areas just south of Rowlett Creek on the northbound 75 access road.
Watters Creek Trail
Oct 11
A very nice evening! Four of us cleaned along the Watters Creek Trail and around some of the parking lots and wooded areas adjacent to the trail.
Mustang Creek
Oct 25
Four volunteers cleaned a good section of Mustang Creek.
September 2025
Mustang Creek - Labor Day Cleanup
Sept 1
Five volunteers cleared over 100 pounds of litter from Mustang Creek on Labor Day morning. It wasn't as hot or as muddy as I expected.
Rowlett Creek
Sept 13
Over 120 pounds from the creek near the Molsen Farms trailhead.
Rowlett Creek
Sept 20
97 pounds on what was still a warm morning.
August 2025
Highway 75 Access Road
Aug 2
A full enough load to go right to the transfer station. 154 pounds in all.
YouTube short: Vroom, Vroom
Mustang Creek
Aug 3
Jared from litterfreefrisco.org joined me for a little creek cleanup in the evening, even though we had both done other cleanups in the morning!
Rowlett Creek
Aug 9
Back again at the spot we cleaned just 4 weeks before. Since there had been heavy rain, there was plenty of new plastic!
July 2025
Rowlett Creek
July 12
Two of us worked for several hours, including using ropes to get up and down the steep creek walls to get a whole pickup truck full of plastic out of the creek. No tires, metal, or glass... almost completely plastic and styrofoam, so the whole load weighed only about 80 pounds.
Videos coming soon!
Bethany Ridge Park
July 27
Fishing, cleaning up, and testing out reusable litter bags (onion sacks) from Keep Texas Beautiful.
YouTube shorts from the day:
Reusable Bags (and ducklings!)
June 2025
Oak Point Park
June 13
Did a little fishing and some trash cleanup, as well as scouting areas for possible future cleanups with larger groups.
Mustang Creek
June 14
You know we just keep going back! Over 50 pounds this morning with some interesting finds.
https://youtube.com/shorts/juuXnq9o_UA?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/PsWAL8Pwrno?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/hNzwCVtvKQo?feature=share
Rowlett Creek
June 28
Lots of trash and 100 golf balls removed from the creek!
Videos coming soon
May 2025
Mustang Creek
May 10
We found a sign about litter cleanup while doing a litter cleanup!
Adopt a Highway
May 25
36 and a half pounds of litter, including some recyclable metal pieces.
https://youtube.com/shorts/TuJqVIFfwcY?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/zYDV8Ap3DPk?feature=share
April 10, 2025
Hamilton Park Cleanup with Texas Instruments
April 10
Eleven volunteers from Texas Instruments removed 440 pounds of litter from Hamilton Park and the Cottonwood Creek Greenbelt. We were so thankful for wonderful weather after getting rained out a week earlier.
March 2025
Garland Greenbelt parks
Mar 15
Visited and briefly cleaned and fished at 3 Garland parks on a trip whose main objective was scouting for the March 29 event.
https://youtube.com/shorts/v6EUneelHGM?feature=share
John Paul Jones Park with City of Garland
Mar 29
2100 pounds of trash removed from the shoreline of Lake Ray Hubbard. ACL attended this event, but it was organized by the City of Garland Parks and Recreation department, and they put on a excellent event!
Short video about it: https://youtube.com/shorts/6xertjiKfqc?feature=share
February 2025
Rocketship Park
Feb 8
57 pounds of trash removed from Rocketship Park and nearby trails.
Scavenger Hunt at Mustang Creek
Feb 15
78 pounds of trash removed from Mustang creek during a fun Bingo based Scavenger Hunt. Both teams got a blackout because we found everything!!
January 2025
Allen Resolution Walk
January 1
Record turnout! We cleaned about 20 miles of roadway in 3 teams of 3 over 3 hours.
Bluebonnet Trail Cleanup
Jan 25
In one of the many areas where water flows off of 75 and toward the creek, the place becomes filled with plastic and styrofoam. We removed almost 100 pound of litter, about half of the weight was in a 65 inch flatscreen TV.
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