On Saturday morning, May 11, the Moose Jaw Co-op hosted their first Community Clean Up.
About 40 volunteers, including staff members, friends, family, and volunteers from the community braved the cool weather and winds to pick up litter. Everyone met at the Ross Park Gas Bar, and dispersed from there.
Trash was collected from the ditches and fields surrounding the Gas Bar, down Thatcher, around the Tourism Center, out to the highway, as well as the field down 9th Ave E. In total, three truckloads of garbage were collected over the course of three hours.
The idea for the Clean Up came from Peacock Collegiate Grade 12 Student, and Ross Park Gas Bar Co-Op Employee Connor Pippus. He wanted to do something good for the community, saw the litter, and so the idea started. He proposed the idea to his Manager Bobbi Simon, who got on board to support him, and so the Community Clean up was launched. Simon, as a Manager, is very much a support and mentor to all of her staff. She is extremely proud of Pippus, as both an employee, and as an outstanding young man.
Pippus himself was very happy with the clean-up.
“The event went amazing. We covered much more ground than we thought possible in three hours. I am very thankful to all who came out to support our clean-up and those who gave their time to help out,” he said. “I’m amazed at how determined everyone was to clean up Moose Jaw. I am happy that I can look around while I’m working and hardly see any garbage laying around. I can look forward to doing the clean up again next year.”
The Moose Jaw Co-op would like to thank all of the volunteers who came to help, as well as the City of Moose Jaw for their support at donating the landfill fees, as well as to A.E. Peacock Collegiate for their donation of gloves and garbage bags. Also, to McDonalds and Rock Creek for their generous donations for our volunteers as a thank you.
Hopefully, this will be an annual event going forward and next year will be even bigger and better.
