It’s that time of the year when the Lloydminster community comes together to clean.
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As the weather warms and winter becomes a thing of the past, the City of Lloydminster will be holding a community cleanup, starting with two events.
The first of the two events takes place between April 28 to May 4. Pitch-in week sees the city call on its residents to help clean the community.
“Pitch in has been a motto for many many years to encourage people to get involved,” said Lloydminster Mayor Gerald Aalbers.
“Tidying up their yards, their neighbourhoods, the public places and the ditches throughout the city.”
He says various organizations, groups and families have all volunteered time and gone out to clean in the community.
Cleaning helps the community’s appearance and keeps everyone safe.
“It helps with fire prevention in some cases depending on the amount of litter,” he said. “It’s just the appearance of our community as you drive through, our street sweepers are out doing their thing and people are starting in their yards.”
The kids’ cleaning effort also doesn’t go unnoticed.
“It’s great we see the kids doing it at the playground, they usually start in their own playgrounds which is wonderful,” said Aalbers.
Pitch-in kits are available but must be reserved by April 18. The kits include safety orientation and sharps protocol, garbage bags and nitrile gloves, sharps kit, colouring contest pages and crayons for kids as a small token of appreciation.
They can be reserved at Lloydminster.ca/CommunityCleanup and will be available for pick up between April 21 and 25 at the City’s operations centre.
There’s also a youth art colouring contest and sheets can be picked up at city hall, the library, the operations centre or online.
Submissions are due by 5 p.m. on May 5 and can be dropped off at city hall or emailed to yo*******@ll**********.ca. The prize for the colouring contest is a 13-piece feast from Mary Brown’s.
The second of the cleaning events includes a household recycling roundup organized by the Lloydminster Household Hazardous Roundup Committee in partnership with the city, the RM of Britannia 502, the RM of Wilton 472, and the Town of Lashburn.
Residents can take accepted items to the Lloydminster Exhibition’s south parking lot on May 3 for a free and environmentally safe way to dispose of the hazardous materials.
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